Director Creative Strategy & Operations

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$135K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end insights workflow and the development of brand platforms and creative systems that connect consumer behavior to business growth.

  • Lead deep consumer insight development across insights, platforms, and thought leadership
  • Build enduring brand campaigns and strategic narratives for priority brands
  • Shape enterprise creative strategy and improve how teams write briefs and evaluate ideas

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Deep Consumer Insight Development:
  • - Develop deep, behavior-based consumer insights that inspire stronger brand strategy and creative work, including the ability to identify unmet needs, behavioral tensions, emotional drivers, and cultural shifts that unlock new growth opportunities.
  • - Go beyond reported data and surface-level findings to identify emotional tensions, cultural shifts, category behaviors, and unmet consumer needs; synthesize consumer data, social listening, cultural observation, category dynamics, behavioral science, sales trends, competitive activity, and brand performance into sharp strategic implications.
  • - Conduct learning when needed through desk research, cultural scans, social mining, qualitative synthesis, and informal ethnographic-style observation.
  • - Partner with Analytics, Behavioral Science, Brand Marketing, and other teams to turn available data into more useful strategic thinking and serve as an enterprise expert on modern consumer behavior.
  • - Build a repeatable standard for what great insight means inside the in-house agency.
  • Build Brand Campaign & Creative Platforms:
  • - Lead development of enduring brand platforms, campaign territories, strategic narratives, messaging architectures, and creative foundations for priority brands.
  • - Translate brand positioning, business objectives, audience understanding, and cultural context into clear strategic direction.
  • - Create platforms that scale across video, social, digital, retail, ecommerce, influencer, shopper, PR, and owned channels.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in creative strategy, brand strategy, integrated marketing, content strategy, in-house agency leadership, or related marketing capability roles; CPG experience preferred.
  • Experience translating brand strategy and consumer insights into creative platforms, briefs, content systems, and marketing ideas.
  • Strong understanding of owned digital platforms, social content, creative production, and integrated brand activation.
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage ambiguity, and align cross-functional partners around shared priorities and decision rights.
  • Strong business acumen, communication, storytelling, facilitation, and change leadership skills.
  • Experience leading teams or matrixed resources and building capability through coaching, tools, templates, and repeatable standards.
  • Digital fluency and curiosity for emerging marketing technologies, including AI-enabled tools that improve creative quality, efficiency, and scalability.

Benefits

  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
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CONAGRA

Conagra Inc is a mechanical or industrial engineering company based out of 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL, United States.

Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 employees

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