Marketing Manager, Brightkins

Vernon Hills, IL (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $115K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Brightkins’ brand vision through a comprehensive strategy, a growing brand team, and cross-channel campaigns, with emphasis on social, influencer ecosystems, product-driven marketing, and Retail collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Author and execute a brand strategy for the Brightkins brand, including Distinctive Assets development and brand storytelling narrative. This is the most important part of the role: creating a clear vision for what the brand can become.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Brand team. Establish performance standards that enable the team to deliver a strong, consistent pipeline of high-impact content and partnerships aligned to strategic priorities.
  • Oversee social media, our most important channel. Develop the organic social strategy that builds mental availability and strengthens brand positioning across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
  • Scale our influencer, affiliate and creator ecosystem, including long-term community building to scale brand reach, attribution and advocacy.
  • Strategizes and owns annual, seasonal, and product-driven marketing campaign execution. Translate business objectives into cross-functional campaigns and ensure flawless execution across all channels, while owning channel-level KPIs and optimization.
  • Partner with Product Development to develop market insights that shape our innovation strategy.
  • Work with Sales to capture retail opportunities and then secure sell-through.
  • Partner with internal Centers of Excellence teams to manage the budget, oversee trade show executions, retail/shopper marketing, and media planning.
  • Oversee and evaluate PR strategy to elevate brand credibility with agency partner.

Requirements

  • Ideal attributes:
  • - Results-driven attitude – a self-starter who thinks and participates effectively, both independently and as part of a team
  • - Analytical skills, and sales acumen – must be able to gather, analyze and interpret data to deliver business insights
  • - Strong communication skills, including synthesizing information from a broad range of stakeholders and market research
  • - Proactive and resourceful in solving problems, making decisions and executing on goals
  • - Connects inside and outside the team; shares information, transfers knowledge and seeks diverse input from others within the team and across the organization
  • - Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with management, sales teams, peers and agency partners and manage those relationships to achieve business objectives
  • - Owns results and follows through on commitments, takes responsibility and produces quality results

Benefits

  • profit sharing bonus potential, 401k matching, and a variety of other benefits (details can be found here )
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We're Learning Resources®, and we've been helping parents and teachers build generations of amazing kids since 1984. From ABCs and 123s to fine motor and STEM skills, our educational toys offer kids the building blocks they need to succeed in school and develop a lifelong love of learning. Discover countless ways to learn through play with our award-winning products, including Toy of the Year winners Tumble Trax®, Botley® the Coding Robot, and Coding CrittersTM.Come learn with us at LearningResources.com

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Marketing Manager, Brightkins

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