Manager, Brand & Marketing Integration

Responsibilities

• Own the brand integration plan for assigned firms, translating approved brand decisions into clear actions, milestones, owners, dependencies and handover dates.
• Translate approved brand strategy and acquisition brand decisions into clear integration plans, milestones, owners and dependencies.
• Ensure each integrated firm adopts a consistent visual identity, applying branded templates, visual identity assets, and guidelines uniformly across markets.
• Review and quality-assure integrated content, campaigns, and marketing assets to confirm they meet global brand standards before go-live.
• Act as the voice of marketing within the integration team, representing brand and dependencies across workstreams and ensuring integration decisions uphold brand integrity.
• Coordinate localization and translation requirements with relevant market and specialist teams, ensuring approved brand standards are maintained.
• Support the application of approved global campaigns and creative in integrating markets, working with Campaign Marketing and Creative teams to maintain a consistent brand look, feel and message.
• Coordinate with the Sales & Marketing Collateral Lead to keep brand content and sales collateral visually and stylistically consistent.
• Partner with Corporate Brand and Campaign Marketing to enforce global brand standards, messaging, and creative quality across integrated firms.
• Manage integration activities against capacity, identifying gaps, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs; escalate decisions through IMO governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field
• 5-7 years of experience in brand management, brand marketing, creative direction, or related roles within professional services or B2B environments
• Demonstrated experience enforcing brand consistency, visual identity, and creative quality standards across markets or business units
• Strong eye for visual identity, design quality, and brand governance, with experience managing brand guidelines and asset libraries
• Experience supporting website or digital content integration while maintaining brand and visual identity standards
• Familiarity with localization and translation of marketing content across languages without compromising brand consistency
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional work, influence stakeholders, and deliver against defined timelines in a matrixed environment
• Experience managing outsourced or contracted delivery partners against defined deliverables and quality standards
• Excellent communication and project management skills, with strong attention to detail and creative quality
• Experience integrating firms or standing up new brand and marketing capabilities in a professional services or global platform context preferred

Preferred

• Experience integrating firms or standing up new brand and marketing capabilities in a professional services or global platform context preferred

Benefits

• Benefits: We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits
• - Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
• - Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.
• Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.
• It is the policy of Grant Thornton to promote equal employment opportunities. All personnel decisions are made without regard to protected characteristics.
• Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state and local laws, it is the policy of Grant Thornton to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability.