Brand Specialist

Woodridge, IL (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Owns Gerber’s brand governance, social media, creator partnerships, and brand experiences, driving consistent messaging, audience engagement, and program operations across omnichannel channels.

  • Oversees brand voice, content maps, and product naming
  • Manages social media execution, customer interactions, and influencer collaborations
  • Runs brand programs and internal communications in partnership with cross-functional teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Governance, Messaging & Product Content
  • - Assist in the development and maintenance of the omnichannel content map, ensuring consistent messaging, storytelling, and timing across B2B, B2C, digital, social, and internal channels.
  • - Steward brand voice and messaging guidelines, ensuring clear direction on tone, terminology, and brand expression to ensure consistency across all customer touchpoints.
  • - Coordinate product naming processes, including name development (in partnership with the creative team), application workflows, repository upkeep, and ensuring naming accuracy and consistency across all materials and channels.
  • - Maintain a centralized product information repository, organizing product features and differentiators by audience/persona while ensuring information is accurate, up to date, and readily available to internal teams and partners.
  • - Support the management of brand protection policies, helping promote channel alignment, reduce conflict, and protect brand equity.
  • Social Media, Creator Partnerships & Brand Reputation
  • - Manage the day-to-day execution of Gerber's social media channels, including content scheduling, publishing, and audience engagement, ensuring a consistent and positive brand experience across platforms.
  • - Elevate the customer experience by crafting on-brand response content for social media messages, comments, technical support touchpoints, customer reviews, and support tickets—balancing empathy, clarity, and brand voice.
  • - Partner with Customer Service and cross-functional teams to ensure customer interactions, escalations, and recovery efforts reflect Gerber's brand values and strengthen customer trust.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, English, Writing, or a related field strongly preferred.
  • Three to five years of hands-on marketing, brand, content, social media, or communications experience required.
  • Experience creating and adapting content in accordance with brand messaging, style, and editorial guidelines for diverse audiences and channels.
  • Hands-on experience managing social media publishing, content scheduling, community engagement, and on-brand responses to comments, messages, reviews, or customer concerns.
  • Ability to measure and report on campaign performance, engagement metrics, and return on investment, and translate results into actionable recommendations.
  • Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with advanced knowledge of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style and the ability to adapt content for different audiences and communication channels.
  • Experience drafting customer-facing and/or corporate communications, including sensitive or escalated responses that require empathy, clarity, accuracy, and sound judgment.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook; ability to use Excel for tracking, reporting, and basic analysis.
  • Experience managing multiple projects, stakeholders, deadlines, and approval processes simultaneously using strong organizational and project-management practices.
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with high standards for accuracy, consistency, quality, and performance.
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Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC

4.0 Glassdoor

Since 1932, Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC has been a leading manufacturer of vitreous china plumbing fixtures, faucets, and fittings for the residential, commercial and hospitality construction markets. Gerber’s comprehensive line of high-performance, high-efficiency and eco-friendly plumbing products are sold exclusively to the plumbing professional and are supported with Gerber’s “Best-in-Class” customer service. As a partner in the U.S. EPA WaterSense Program, Gerber is committed to protecting the environment through resource conservation and building best practices.

Founded in 1932
Woodridge, Illinois, USA
249 employees (10 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$50K/yr – $70K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
49.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
65.7%
Direct
32.5%
Referral
0.2%
Social
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~249
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Brand Specialist

Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC · Woodridge, IL · Hybrid