Global Director, Brand Marketing, Chocolate
Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Posted 9 days ago
Job Summary
Own and accelerate category growth for Chocolate Brands targeting Gen Z/Gen Alpha by shaping brand positioning, audiences, and briefs across markets while driving governance, collaboration, and an authentic, community-driven growth agenda.
- Define growth playbooks and brand architecture
- Lead cross-market collaboration and period connects
- Drive authentic partnerships and content-led activation
Job Description
Responsibilities
- In partnership with Brand Content team, build Meaningful Distinction and Relevance for Chocolate Brands with GenZ/GenAlpha to accelerate category growth by,
- Identify key drivers from data driven/human cultural insights
- Lead Redefine/Strengthen audiences and positioning
- Lead Building communication and advertising briefs
- Dial up authenticity by tapping into content/activation ideas/partnerships that ladder up to new/community led/culturally relevant ways of building brands (in process accelerate earned, shared, owned aspect of deployment)
- Creating building and driving in collaboration with markets on - Core Brand Growth Playbooks - around Vision, Portfolio unlock by market maturity, Excellence in Comms/positioning and visual ID and Executional excellence instore and dCom.
- Define Chocolate Brand and Portfolio architecture by analyzing brand health, understanding roles, brand stages/evolution across markets, customer segments, innovation play and 2030 category growth strategy
- Lead co-create and collaboration across key markets by orchestrating and driving engagement through period connects, key forums – community building and brand boards.
- Oversight of global brand strategy in partnership with Brand Content teams, Integrated Intelligence, and regions, global brand governance and on-going connectivity/Expertise across brand strategic initiatives
Requirements
- Strong Marketing expertise. Brand positioning, brand building, architecture and communication.
- Proven record of Brand strategic planning and development as well as communication brief / development.
- Strong expertise in consumer growth agenda, portfolio strategy and innovation.
- Strategic mindset with strong execution capability
- Strong team leadership and ability to drive influence across matrix organization and stakeholder management
- Entrepreneurial
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Salaries
Posted range
$170K/yr – $234K/yr
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