Brand Senior Manager

USA (On-site)

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Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Nielsen’s brand leadership across global campaigns in sports and culture, shaping strategy and cross-functional execution.

  • Own brand strategy and calendar for Nielsen across sports and culture campaigns.
  • Must-have: 12+ years leading brand initiatives in B2B or global iconic brands.
  • Standout: Experience leading cross-functional teams with global scale.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a leader for Nielsen’s brand initiatives, narratives and relevance across key campaigns in sports and culture. Set and execute a brand calendar roadmap for Nielsen.
  • Drive a customer-centric strategy to address complex global business, customers, and industry opportunities, ensuring the brand initiatives support business objectives.
  • Drive integrated marketing efforts that engage, collaborate and align internal teams and external stakeholders in the US and globally.
  • Brand Management: Develop, drive and execute brand initiatives in sports and culture. Use customer insights and research to continuously refine positioning and messaging.
  • Integrated Marketing & Cross Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Creative, Digital, Retention Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Events, Social and other functions to ensure all efforts are on-brand, customer insight-led, and consistently executed.
  • Measurement & Impact: Define success metrics across brand health and connect brand performance to business outcomes.
  • Team Influence and Leadership: Drive cross-functional teams for key brand projects that are critical to Nielsen’s brand and business success.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in brand leadership roles within the B2B industry and/or global iconic brands.
  • 7+ years of experience in managing and leading teams, including both direct reports and external partners.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex strategies to executive-level stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or equivalent experience required.

Preferred

  • Experience in the US market and operating at global scale preferred.
  • Advanced degree or specialized certifications preferred.

Benefits

  • health & wellness plans
  • 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match
  • generous paid time off policy
  • company provided car for those who qualify
  • discretionary incentive/bonus
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Nielsen

NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. NIQ combined with GfK in 2023, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. Today NIQ has operations in 95+ countries representing 97% of the world’s GDP. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full ViewTM.

Founded in 1923
Chicago, Illinois, USA
28K employees (1,168 in marketing)

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