P5P5 — Expert Professional
Senior Manager/Director
The P5 level acts as a senior leader of communications, often heading the function for a major division or acting as the lead communications strategist.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Develop the communications strategy for major business units
- Lead high-impact campaigns
- Direct a larger team of managers/specialists
- Serve as an executive liaison
- Oversee major external partnerships
- Monitor competitive communications strategies
- Develop communication strategy
- Lead high-impact campaigns
- Direct team
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic leadership
- Decision-making
- Influence
- Visionary communication
- Organizational leadership
- Strategic leadership
- High-impact campaign management
- Executive liaison roles
- Partnership oversight
- Competitive strategy monitoring
- Advanced strategic leadership
- Decision-making
- Influence
- Visionary communication
- Organizational leadership
- High-level negotiation
What good looks like
- 8–12+ years in communications
- Master’s degree
- Proven success in managing large-scale campaigns
Common titles
Marketing Communications VMarketing Communications 5Staff Marketing CommunicationsLead Marketing CommunicationsExpert Marketing CommunicationsSenior Manager/Director
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 13-0000 — Business & Financial Operations Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.