Global Brand Marketing Director

California, MO (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own the strategic marketing direction for priority brands, leading global and field campaigns, storytelling, and cross-functional execution across markets.

  • Lead brand-level strategy and storytelling across markets.
  • Drive integrated campaigns, field activation, and partnerships.
  • Align senior stakeholders and develop teams to execute complex initiatives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand-level marketing strategy across priority brands, ensuring initiatives reflect each brand’s distinct positioning and point of view while supporting long-term brand and business objectives.
  • Develop and guide brand storytelling frameworks that extend beyond property-level promotion and elevate the brands in culture and in the marketplace.
  • Help lead the marketing strategy for integrated global campaigns, hotel openings, and major brand moments, defining positioning, target audiences, narrative, channel approach, go-to-market strategy, and measures of success while guiding cross-functional teams through execution.
  • Lead the field marketing model, setting strategic priorities and guiding property teams in activating global strategies with local relevance, rather than managing day-to-day coordination.
  • Set the strategic direction for hotel programming and partnerships, identifying opportunities that best support brand equity, guest relevance, and business goals.
  • Evaluate and prioritize brand-building opportunities across partnerships, programming, openings, and campaigns, balancing near-term hotel needs with long-term brand value.
  • Partner cross-functionally with brand, creative, communications, social, digital, commercial, F&B marketing, and property teams to ensure aligned messaging and execution across the guest journey.
  • Translate business priorities into marketing plans that are both brand-building and operationally realistic.
  • Gain alignment and buy-in from senior stakeholders on key marketing priorities and initiatives, building the support and cross-functional sponsorship required to move complex projects forward.
  • Lead change management for new marketing strategies, processes, and initiatives, partnering with marketing leaders from planning through implementation to drive understanding, adoption, and consistent execution.

Requirements

  • 8 to 12+ years of experience in marketing, brand, or related roles, preferably within hospitality, lifestyle, luxury, consumer, or multi-unit businesses.
  • Experience leading integrated marketing strategy across both brand-level and field or property-level functions and across multiple markets or regions.
  • Strong background in brand storytelling, campaign development, positioning, and cross-functional leadership.
  • Demonstrated experience developing long-term marketing plans and translating brand and business objectives into integrated, actionable strategies.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate strategically, prioritize effectively, and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to gain alignment across complex stakeholder groups and lead initiatives through ambiguity, change, and competing priorities.
  • Experience managing and developing teams, with a track record of elevating others out of executional work and into higher-value contribution.
  • Strong judgment, communication skills, and comfort managing ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
  • Ability to connect creative, operational, and commercial considerations into a cohesive marketing approach.
  • Ability to lead across multiple brands simultaneously while protecting distinct positioning, audiences, and brand identities.

Preferred

  • Global hospitality, luxury, lifestyle, or consumer brand experience strongly preferred.
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Starwood Hotels

We’re a global team of purpose-driven, nature-inspired, service-obsessed individuals who thrive on nurturing the natural beauty of both people and the planet. Your mission as part of our community: to leave our guests with more than they arrived with—whether it’s a new wellness routine, a plan to live more sustainably, or simply a restored perspective. The luxury of our hotel experiences lies not only in next-level comforts and personalized services but also in our wealth of warmth, depth of knowledge, and collective drive to preserve and protect this extraordinary world.We’re proud to be recognized in Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces 2025—a testament to how deeply we care about our people, our planet, and making a meaningful difference.Starwood Hotels, an affiliate of the global private investment firm Starwood Capital Group, is a hotel brand management company overseeing 1 Hotels, Baccarat Hotels, Treehouse Hotels, and SH Collection properties. Leveraging our expertise in marketing, design, operations, and technology, Starwood Hotels drives some of the most groundbreaking and dynamic hotel brands in the world.For more information, visit starwoodhotels.com, 1hotels.com, baccarathotels.com, and treehousehotels.com

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Global Brand Marketing Director

Starwood Hotels · California, MO · On-site