Brand Strategy Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$104K/yr – $156K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Owns the end-to-end brand strategy for the group, directing positioning, propositions, brand architecture, naming for acquisitions, and employer branding, while leading workshops and turning strategy into actionable briefs and evidence-based messaging across markets.

  • Leads brand workshops with leadership and markets
  • Develops positioning, frameworks, and creative briefs
  • Partners with Legal on branding and acquisitions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand story and positioning
  • - Develop and evolve the group’s positioning, narrative, messaging architecture and tone of voice principles for use across markets
  • - Connect audience, client need, value and proof in every framework, so each claim we make is clear, credible and consistent
  • Propositions and messaging
  • - Build the proposition and messaging frameworks behind our campaigns, services and solutions, working with activation, creative, content and service line teams
  • - Design and lead brand workshops with leadership teams, markets and service lines to shape propositions, test the thinking and build agreement on the direction
  • - Turn approved strategy into clear creative briefs and keep the agreed direction intact through development
  • Brand architecture and naming
  • - Shape the group’s brand architecture as we grow, developing options and naming recommendations for acquisitions, products, platforms, services and solutions
  • - Prepare decision papers for senior leaders, setting out each option with its commercial, legal and market implications

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Around 7 years in brand strategy, gained in-house, in an agency or in a consultancy
  • Experience working across markets or in a complex organization; professional services experience is useful but not required
  • A proven record building propositions and messaging architectures
  • Strong writing and editorial judgment, able to make complex services clear, credible and distinctive
  • Experience in brand architecture, naming and acquired-brand strategy
  • Employer brand experience and confidence working with senior People and Culture stakeholders
  • Skilled facilitation: able to design and lead workshops with senior stakeholders across markets and cultures
  • Research literacy: able to frame testing questions and turn findings into recommendations
  • The ability to build an evidence-based case, present a clear recommendation to senior leaders and gain their support

Benefits

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Salaries

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$104K/yr – $156K/yr

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