Director, Brand and Experience Operations

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 12 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the execution of Brand & Experience strategic initiatives, coordinating leadership routines, resource planning, and cross-functional alignment with finance and analytics partners.

  • Lead operating rhythms, governance, and leadership reporting
  • Drive resource planning, forecasting, and priority alignment
  • Enable cross-functional collaboration across CBXO and Brand & Experience teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the CBXO and Brand & Experience Leadership Team in operationalizing and executing strategic priorities and key business initiatives.
  • Coordinate leadership team meetings, operating reviews, quarterly planning sessions, offsites, and follow-up actions.
  • Develop leadership presentations, organizational updates, executive communications, and business review materials.
  • Maintain visibility into key organizational priorities, risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
  • Partner with functional leaders to track progress against commitments and ensure alignment across teams.
  • Help establish and manage operating rhythms, governance processes, and leadership reporting.
  • Support resource allocation processes across Brand & Experience disciplines to ensure alignment with business priorities, client commitments, and strategic initiatives. Serve as key interaction point with Finance partners and P&L business leads.
  • Facilitate resource planning discussions and help identify capacity constraints, staffing gaps, and utilization opportunities.
  • Maintain resource forecasting models and reporting tools that provide visibility into team workloads and demand trends; maintain and validate trends and assumptions in monthly reconciliation.
  • Partner with department leaders to balance competing priorities and support informed resource allocation decisions.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, resource management, consulting, PMO, Chief of Staff, or related leadership roles.
  • Proven ability to operationalize strategy, drive cross-functional initiatives, and support senior executive leaders in complex organizations.
  • Experience with resource allocation, workforce planning, capacity management, budgeting, forecasting, utilization reporting, and business performance analysis.
  • Strong understanding of financial drivers and ability to translate operational data into business insights and recommendations.
  • Exceptional communication, executive presentation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders across multiple functions without direct authority.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with experience leveraging dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools to support decision-making.
  • Experience driving operational excellence, process improvement, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
  • Experience supporting brand, creative, design, marketing, product, digital, consulting, or professional services organizations preferred.
  • Proficiency with business intelligence and planning tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or similar platforms.

Preferred

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma) desirable.

Benefits

  • Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
  • Paid parental and medical leave programs
  • 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
  • 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
  • Hybrid work model
  • Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
  • Inclusive employee resource groups
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Morgan Street Holdings

Morgan Street Holdings is a holding company and private investment group with a growth mindset, owning a diverse portfolio across industries. With 50 years of deep customer relationships and business expansion, we seek long-term acquisitions that align with our values and vision.Morgan Street Holdings is seeking to build on its foundation of owning and growing industry-leading companies that deliver the highest quality products and services to their customers.Companies we look to acquire or invest in have at least $25M of EBITDA, alignment with our values and culture, strong leadership teams, and a sector focus within business services, consumer products, distribution, food and beverage services, and sourcing. We’re also open to working with other investor partners that share our values and are actively looking to invest in partnership opportunities.Learn more at https://morganstreet.com/Visit our businesses: https://www.havi.comhttps://www.tmsw.comhttps://www.stanley1913.comhttps://www.continentalserves.com

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