Director Creative Strategy & Operations

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$135K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end strategic work that turns consumer insights into enduring brand platforms and creative narratives, guiding campaigns across channels while coordinating with Analytics, Brand Marketing, and Behavioral Science teams.

  • Define and scale insights into brand platforms and strategic narratives
  • Lead cross-functional storytelling to drive creative platforms and long-term brand-building

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Deep Consumer Insight Development:
  • Develop deep, behavior-based consumer insights that inspire stronger brand strategy and creative work, including the ability to identify unmet needs, behavioral tensions, emotional drivers, and cultural shifts that unlock new growth opportunities.
  • Go beyond reported data and surface-level findings to identify emotional tensions, cultural shifts, category behaviors, and unmet consumer needs; synthesize consumer data, social listening, cultural observation, category dynamics, behavioral science, sales trends, competitive activity, and brand performance into sharp strategic implications.
  • Conduct learning when needed through desk research, cultural scans, social mining, qualitative synthesis, and informal ethnographic-style observation.
  • Partner with Analytics, Behavioral Science, Brand Marketing, and other teams to turn available data into more useful strategic thinking and serve as an enterprise expert on modern consumer behavior.
  • Build a repeatable standard for what great insight means inside the in-house agency.
  • Build Brand Campaign & Creative Platforms:
  • Lead development of enduring brand platforms, campaign territories, strategic narratives, messaging architectures, and creative foundations for priority brands.
  • Translate brand positioning, business objectives, audience understanding, and cultural context into clear strategic direction.
  • Create platforms that scale across video, social, digital, retail, ecommerce, influencer, shopper, PR, and owned channels.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in creative strategy, brand strategy, integrated marketing, content strategy, in-house agency leadership, or related marketing capability roles; CPG experience preferred.
  • Experience translating brand strategy and consumer insights into creative platforms, briefs, content systems, and marketing ideas.
  • Strong understanding of owned digital platforms, social content, creative production, and integrated brand activation.
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage ambiguity, and align cross-functional partners around shared priorities and decision rights.
  • Strong business acumen, communication, storytelling, facilitation, and change leadership skills.
  • Experience leading teams or matrixed resources and building capability through coaching, tools, templates, and repeatable standards.
  • Digital fluency and curiosity for emerging marketing technologies, including AI-enabled tools that improve creative quality, efficiency, and scalability.

Benefits

  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
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Conagra Brands

3.7 Glassdoor

Conagra has the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. Our diverse team embraces debate to challenge marketplace/business conventions. We are respected for our great brands, great food, great margins and consistent results.We combine a rich heritage with a sharpened focus and entrepreneurial spirit. Conagra’s portfolio of iconic and emerging food brands continues to evolve to offer contemporary choices for every occasion. We are a 100 year-old company with a startup attitude - an imperative to transform how we do business. What’s not changing? Our timeless values: integrity, external focus, broad-mindedness, agility, leadership by all, and a focus on results.

Founded in 1919
Chicago, Illinois, USA
7.5K employees (463 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
109.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.8%
Direct
48.1%
Referral
9.7%
Social
5.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
429 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

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