Brand Manager, PurePlay

Rosemont, IL (On-site)

$110K/yr – $145K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 19 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end brand strategy and storytelling for Culligan’s PurePlay portfolio, guiding architecture, guidelines, and creative development while partnering with product, e-commerce, and external agencies to drive growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand strategy, positioning, messaging, and value proposition development across Culligan's PurePlay portfolio.
  • Develop and maintain brand architecture, naming conventions, product nomenclature, and portfolio organization.
  • Establish, maintain, and develop brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all customers (end user) touchpoints.
  • Serve as the internal brand steward, driving adherence to brand standards across marketing, sales, product, customer experience, and external partners.
  • Develop compelling brand narratives that communicate product innovation, category leadership, and customer benefits.
  • Leverage consumer insights, market trends, competitive intelligence, and category dynamics to identify growth opportunities and inform brand strategy.
  • Lead development of creative assets across e-commerce, digital, social, influencers and video channels.
  • Manage relationships with creative, branding, content, production, and media agencies.
  • Develop clear creative briefs and guide agencies from concept through execution.
  • Oversee photography, lifestyle shoots, product demonstrations, video production, and content creation initiatives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field.
  • 5-8+ years of progressive experience in Brand Management, Consumer Marketing, or Integrated Marketing.
  • Proven experience developing and executing successful brand and marketing strategies.
  • Experience managing agencies and leading creative development projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate consumer insights into business and marketing actions.
  • Exceptional communication, storytelling, presentation, and influencing skills.
  • Strong project management and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to connect marketing initiatives to business outcomes.

Preferred

  • Experience in consumer products, home products, water treatment, appliances, durable goods, or related categories.
  • Experience with Amazon, marketplace, or e-commerce-focused marketing.
  • Familiarity with influencer marketing, paid social, online videos, creator partnerships, PR, and content development.
  • Experience overseeing photography, video production, and content creation programs.

Benefits

  • Full-time positions are eligible for competitive benefits, including paid time off, health, dental, vision, life, disability benefits and 401(k).
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APEC Water Systems

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APEC (Advanced Purification Engineering Corp.) is a leading solution provider for premium drinking and filtration systems in the United States. With more than 25 years of industrial experience and a loyal customer base that spans the globe, we are proud of our reputation for the highest quality water filtration systems and services that we provide. Our products are designed, engineered and assembled in the USA and shipped worldwide to treat all types of water problems. As a part of the Culligan family, we will continue to strengthen our commitment: bringing clean and healthy water to you, whether you are at home, in the office or on the go.

Founded in 1995
Walnut, California, USA
23 employees (3 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16.2K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~23

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (9% of company)
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1