Sr. Brand Manager, Equity ON

Downers Grove, IL (On-site)

$125K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

Job Summary

Own brand strategy and activation for a global health-nutrition leader, shaping long-term equity through platform storytelling, cross-channel campaigns, and agency-driven creative.

  • Lead integrated brand architecture, campaigns, and big-idea development that connect emotional impact to business outcomes.
  • Drive full-funnel activation across paid, owned, and earned channels with agency partners, ensuring consistency of tone and memory structures.
  • Collaborate with Insights & Analytics to monitor brand health and translate findings into portfolio and activation refinements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of annual and long-range brand strategies aligned to Optimum Nutrition’s long-term vision and overall GPN strategy
  • Own and evolve the brand’s positioning, identity, and storytelling platforms, ensuring clarity, consistency, and differentiation across markets and channels
  • Provide strategic input into 3–5 year brand plans, identifying growth opportunities across innovation, messaging, portfolio, and activation
  • Serve as the internal guardian of brand equity, ensuring all initiatives strengthen long-term brand value
  • Leverage consumer, category, and cultural insights to inform brand strategy, innovation direction, and communication priorities
  • Partner with Insights & Analytics to monitor brand health, equity metrics, and performance trends, translating insights into actionable recommendations
  • Conduct market and competitive analysis to identify white space opportunities and risks to brand equity
  • Develop and lead integrated communication frameworks (brand narratives, platforms, campaigns) that ladder functional benefits to emotional impact.
  • Own the “big idea” development for equity campaigns in partnership with creative, media, and PR agencies.
  • Drive compelling storytelling across consumer marketing, partnerships, PR, influencer, and social—ensuring consistent tone and voice.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or Master’s degree preferred
  • 7-10+ years of relevant CPG brand management experience
  • or
  • 5–7+ years of CPG experience with an advanced degree (MBA)
  • Proven experience leading brand strategy, equity building campaigns and brand platforms, not just product launches and cross-functional projects
  • Strong background in creative briefing, agency leadership, and brand storytelling
  • Experience in health, wellness, or performance nutrition preferred

Benefits

  • The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.
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Glanbia is a better nutrition company, helping people live full, healthy lives. We are a team of scientists, innovators, tastemakers, and relationship-builders, creating better nutrition products and more sustainable ways of doing business. Our heritage is in dairy, but we've evolved to become a global nutrition leader, home to brands and ingredients that help people around the world perform well, recover quickly, and stay strong, at any age. The future of food is personal — we continue to grow, using insight-and science-led innovation to deliver the high-quality nutrition our consumers need. The choices we make every day are guided by our purpose — we're here to help people live their best, while doing better by each other and the earth.

Founded in 1997
Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, IRL
4.1K employees (281 in marketing)

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Sr. Brand Manager, Equity ON

Glanbia · Downers Grove, IL · On-site