Manager of Communications Strategy and Activation

Irving, TX (On-site)

$94K/yr – $123K/yrManager6+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end brand communications lifecycle, leading cross-functional activation, creative development, and integrated plans to drive brand equity and business goals.

  • Lead brand strategy and integrated plans across channels to ensure consistency and impact.
  • Oversee end-to-end creative development and production, guiding briefs, testing, and asset delivery.
  • Coordinate cross-functional partners, agencies, and insights teams for timely decisions and successful activations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Functional Leader
  • Help advance the Communications Strategy & Activation function by modeling strong brand stewardship, creative excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
  • Contribute to scalable processes, workflows, templates, and best practices that improve team effectiveness and cross-functional ways of working.
  • Brand Partner
  • Lead day-to-day partnership with assigned Brand teams on all aspects of brand building to achieve annual business goals and improve brand equity.
  • Provide expertise and enable excellence across brand foundations, packaging design, visual identity, creative development, paid asset production, and integrated communications, while supporting adoption of standardized tools and frameworks across brands.
  • End-to-End Creative Development & Production
  • Lead the end-to-end creative development process for assigned brand platforms and campaigns that are distinctive, relevant, and built to extend across full-funnel consumer touchpoints.
  • Craft creative briefs for agency partners, working closely with Brand and Consumer Insights to ensure we are providing clear direction that is informed by a strong understanding of the brand purpose, business strategy, and audience.
  • Inform creative testing approach and stimulus development, participate in research when possible, and guide creative optimizations to apply learnings.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of relevant experience in agency and/or brand roles
  • A bachelor’s degree is in Marketing, or a related field is required
  • A master’s degree is a plus
  • The ideal candidate will have creative agency experience, brand creative experience, or both
  • Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience is preferred
  • Understanding the inner workings of agencies across creative, packaging, digital, social, and PR
  • Collaborations with peers in consumer insights and media, driving consumer-centric activations
  • Strong understanding of campaign production
  • Experience leading an integrated agency team from brand side, agency side, or both
  • Experience with packaging design, aligned to best practices to stand out on the shelf

Preferred

  • Master’s degree is a plus
  • Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience is preferred
  • Experience leading an integrated agency team from brand side, agency side, or both
  • Understanding of agencies across creative, packaging, digital, social, and PR

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Benefits Package
  • Paid Time Off
  • 401k & Company Match
  • Annual Bonus Eligibility
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Have you ever started your morning with a Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or bitten into the perfect slice of Sara Lee® bread? Do you break open a fresh box of Entenmann’s® donuts at family gatherings? If so, you’re already a fan of Bimbo Bakeries USA – the powerhouse behind these iconic brands!Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company with operations in 35 countries. Bimbo Bakeries USA employs 22,000 associates across the Country in bakeries, sales centers, corporate offices and on sales routes to ensure our consumers have the freshest products to feed their families at every meal.

Founded in 2016
Horsham, Pennsylvania, USA
11K employees (700 in marketing)
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58% CEO approval

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$94K/yr – $123K/yr

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Debt Financing, 2 years ago

Funding History

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    Debt Financing • $1.3B

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Manager of Communications Strategy and Activation

Bimbo Bakeries USA · Irving, TX · On-site