Associate, Brand Strategy, Corporate Marketing

Responsibilities

• Support the planning, execution, and measurement of integrated brand campaigns aligned with corporate marketing objectives.
• Coordinate campaign timelines, deliverables, approvals, stakeholder communications, and key milestone tracking across initiatives.
• Assist in developing campaign briefs and managing creative asset development with internal teams and external agencies.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects across brand, advertising, corporate sponsorships, and corporate marketing workstreams.
• Review marketing and communications materials to ensure alignment with brand standards, messaging guidelines, and enterprise brand compliance requirements.
• Assist in maintaining advertising budgets, invoices, and campaign performance reporting.
• Coordinate sponsorship deliverables, events, hospitality programs, and promotional activities.
• Manage brand asset libraries, templates, and shared resources.
• Assist in managing the onboarding and tracking of eternal vendors including working with internal systems and stakeholders.
• Facilitate meetings, prepare agendas, document action items, and track follow-up activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Applicants should have at least 3-5 years of relevant experience in a related role. Experience working with outside agencies, ability to coordinate and support across internal and external teams with campaign activation and roll out. Experience working at an alternatives investment manager or within financial services a plus.
• 3–5 years of experience in corporate marketing, brand management, advertising, sponsorship marketing, communications, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Public Relations, or a related field.
• Experience supporting the development and execution of integrated marketing or brand campaigns across multiple channels.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and working with external agencies, vendors, and partners.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Experience supporting marketing budgets, purchase orders, invoices, and vendor management processes.

Preferred

• Familiarity with sponsorship activation, event planning, partnership management, or experiential marketing is preferred.
• Understanding of brand governance, brand standards, and approval processes is preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) and marketing/project management platforms such as Workfront, Asana, Monday.com, or similar tools

Benefits

• The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.
• Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.