Chief Marketing Officer (TNF)

Denver, CO (On-site)

$303K/yr – $379K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Lead global brand marketing for The North Face, shaping strategy, governance, and ROI-driven execution across regions with a focus on omni-channel, AI-enabled insights and inclusive leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • - Define and lead a clear, differentiated global brand marketing strategy grounded in consumer insight, cultural relevance, and performance outcomes
  • - Ensure consistent brand storytelling across all regions, channels, and touchpoints
  • - Partner closely with regional marketing leaders (AMER, EMEA, APAC) to translate global strategy into locally relevant plans
  • - Establish clear ways of working, governance, and decision-making frameworks that enable speed, alignment, and accountability across global and regional teams
  • - Balance centralized direction with regional empowerment to unlock growth in international markets
  • - Build omni-channel marketing strategies and create seamless consumer journeys with DTC and membership at the center of an “always-on”
  • - Leverage AI, consumer insights, analytics, and emerging technologies to continuously improve marketing effectiveness and ROI
  • - Advance TNF’s digital transformation by embedding data, AI, and performance measurement into global marketing strategies
  • - Ensure The North Face continues to lead globally across both performance and lifestyle categories
  • - Own the budget management and allocation, Marketing Return on Investment (MROI) effectiveness and efficiency, investment management.

Requirements

  • - 10+ years in a senior executive role, leading a global, highly qualified, results-oriented marketing team
  • - Bachelor’s degree in a related field; MBA or equivalent preferred
  • - Proven success in building and executing global brand strategies that drive measurable growth and brand equity
  • - Superior understanding of consumer behavior, with a track record of using those insights to develop differentiated, winning strategies
  • - Deep experience partnering with regional teams to scale globally while executing locally
  • - Strong understanding of the global apparel, footwear, or related consumer industries
  • - Demonstrated ability to lead and adapt through change, transformation, and organizational complexity while maintaining business focus
  • - Significant experience in international markets, with the ability to navigate diverse cultures and lead a global team
  • Location requirement: Denver, CO

Preferred

  • - Balanced global consistency with regional flexibility and autonomy
  • - Strong commercial acumen and a deep understanding of how marketing drives business performance
  • - Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across product, merchandising, regional, and commercial teams
  • - Uses data and analytics to inform decisions and continuously optimize performance
  • - Strong track record of developing senior leaders and building diverse, high-performing teams
  • - Creates clarity, accountability, and empowerment across a global organization
  • - Ability to build processes, governance, and operating models that enable speed and consistency across global teams
  • - Curious, forward-thinking, and comfortable leading through ambiguity and change
  • - Champions new ideas, emerging technologies, and test-and-learn approaches

Benefits

  • Benefits at VF Corporation : You can review a general overview of each benefit program offered, including this year's medical plan rates on www.MyVFbenefits.com   and by clicking Looking to Join VF? Detailed information on your benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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The North Face

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The North Face®, a VF Corporation brand, is the premier exploration company in the world. Founded in the counterculture of Berkeley, CA in 1966 we have a long and storied legacy of enabling exploration, loving and protecting wild places, and creating iconic and technically advanced product.At The North Face® we dare to lead the world forward through Exploration. We believe that exploration is a mindset – both on the mountain and off the mountain – and it infuses everything we do. As a community of explorers, we stay curious about new ideas, places and people. Interested in joining the adventure? Take a look through our open opportunities here or on our Careers website (www.thenorthface.com/careers). We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.The North Face, a VF CompanyVF Corporation is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities and experiences they cherish most through a family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands including Vans®, The North Face®, Timberland® and Dickies®. VF's purpose is to power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. VF believes that when you discover the difference between a career and a calling, you get so much more out of life. When those lines begin to blur, you start to limit yourself much less and start aiming for more. That’s what we want for everyone who joins VF. And frankly, that’s what it takes to thrive here too. For more information, please visit vfc.com.

Founded in 1966
Denver, Colorado, USA
5.1K employees (705 in marketing)
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Chief Marketing Officer (TNF)

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