Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy

USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Management: Develop, drive and ensure Nielsen’s global brand identity, recognition and market positioning. Use customer insights and research to continuously refine positioning and messaging.
  • Innovation & Experimentation: Identify and lead special brand projects that modernize brand efforts, and test new formats, channels, and engagement models.
  • Integrated Marketing & Cross Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Creative, Digital, Retention Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Events, Social and other functions to ensure all efforts are on-brand, customer insight-led, and consistently executed.
  • Measurement & Impact: Define success metrics across brand health and connect brand performance to business outcomes.
  • Team Leadership: Lead functional team and key brand projects that are critical to Nielsen’s brand and business success and innovation pipeline.
  • Budget Management: create and manage key project budgets, ensuring efforts, campaigns and initiatives are cost-effective and yield a positive return on investment.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in brand leadership roles within the B2B industry and/or global iconic brands
  • Deep expertise in brand strategy, positioning, messaging, and brand architecture for complex portfolios. Proven experience building or evolving a brand function in a matrixed environment.
  • 7+ years of experience in managing and leading teams, including both direct reports and external partners.
  • Experience in the US market and operating at global scale preferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex strategies to executive-level stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or equivalent experience required; advanced degree or specialized certifications preferred.

Benefits

  • Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.
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Nielsen

NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. NIQ combined with GfK in 2023, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. Today NIQ has operations in 95+ countries representing 97% of the world’s GDP. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full ViewTM.

Founded in 1923
Chicago, Illinois, USA
28K employees (1,168 in marketing)

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