Marketing Director, Brand Equity and Demand Generation

Columbus, OH (On-site)

$171K/yr – $343K/yrDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead brand strategy and demand generation across channels, partnering with executive stakeholders to grow Abbott’s consumer brands.

  • Must-have: 12+ years in CPG brand management with healthcare exposure and strong ROI focus.
  • Standout: leadership of media, creative, and cross-functional teams at executive level.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive thought leadership & influence business-driving decisions across the organization, including own team, divisional peers, cross-functional partners, and executive leadership, serving as a trusted advisor on brand and demand generation strategy
  • Ensure that our US Adult brands, brand equities, brand architecture, and market positioning deliver clear, differentiated value propositions for our consumers and category leadership for our customers
  • Own and orchestrate consumer demand generation strategies across the full funnel activating across paid, owned, and earned channels to deliver market share, revenue growth, and profitability targets aligned with organizational expectations
  • Lead the Media function, including strategy, investment planning, agency partnership optimization, and measurement, ensuring disciplined stewardship of significant marketing investments and continuous improvement in demand generation ROI
  • Lead Brand Design and creative excellence, ensuring cohesive, distinctive, and scalable brand expression across packaging, communications, content, and consumer touchpoints
  • Analyze market, consumer, and performance drivers and implement strategic adjustments across media investment, creative approach, and channel mix to improve consumer engagement and demand generation effectiveness
  • Commercialize innovation through brand equity, positioning, packaging, labelling, content, communication, creative systems, and demand generation planning and execution, in close partnership with Innovation, R&D, and cross-functional teams
  • Engage with and effectively partner with a complex ecosystem of internal and external media, creative, communications, and specialty agencies, setting clear direction, governance, and performance expectations
  • Build, coach, and inspire high-performing teams, fostering a culture of strategic thinking and learning agility, while developing future enterprise marketing leaders.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in consumer-packaged goods brand management and/or consumer brand generation, with healthcare category experience a plus
  • Strong thought leadership, written, and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact with and influence senior and executive leadership to drive strategy, prioritization, and investment decisions
  • Deep expertise in modern consumer demand generation including strategy, execution, investment, P&L management, creative development, analytics, and measurement
  • Proven ability to isolate business and performance drivers and lead marketing mix trade-offs to optimize growth and ROI
  • Demonstrated success leading and developing teams, including multi-disciplinary talent, and collaborating across complex cross-functional environments
  • Strong familiarity with primary and secondary market research, consumer insights, and data-driven decision marking
  • BS/BA in Marketing or related field

Preferred

  • MBA
  • 15+ years of experience inclusive of portfolio-level brand leadership, enterprise influence, or large-scale demand generation responsibility

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