Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day brand governance and serve as a primary point of contact for brand-related inquiries, guidance, and implementation support across the organization.
• Partner with Corporate Communications, Commercial, Human Resources, Digital, Events, Legal, Trademark, Regulatory Affairs, R&D, and regional teams to support consistent, practical, and compliant brand application.
• Manage and continuously improve brand governance processes, FAQs, decision trees, office hours, stakeholder education, intake workflows, and escalation pathways for complex brand requests.
• Own administration and ongoing management of the DePuy Synthes Brand Center and related digital asset management tools, ensuring assets, templates, guidelines, training materials, and resources remain current, organized, and accessible.
• Oversee asset taxonomy, tagging, naming, publishing, archiving, and content governance to improve user experience, adoption, and operational efficiency.
• Support brand marketing activations, launch materials, toolkits, campaign resources, presentations, congress and event materials, stakeholder communications, and other initiatives that bring the DePuy Synthes brand to life.
• Create, edit, and adapt branded assets, presentations, templates, infographics, and simple creative executions to support internal and external stakeholders when agency or design support is not required.
• Support strategic brand workstreams including brand architecture, product branding guidance, packaging guidance, environmental branding, event branding, naming systems, and customer experience touchpoints.
• Manage relationships with agencies, contractors, platform vendors, designers, and creative partners to ensure high-quality execution, delivery against timelines, and effective use of budget.
• Lead project planning, prioritization, budgeting, status reporting, workflow management, and stakeholder alignment for key brand operations and marketing initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required in Marketing, Communications, Business, Design, or a related field.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Typically requires 8-10 years of progressive experience in Brand Management, Marketing, Brand Operations, Communications, Creative Operations, or related functions.
• Experience supporting corporate, enterprise, or global brands in a complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing brand governance, operational processes, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience managing digital tools, workflows, assets, templates, or content systems that enable brand or marketing teams.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Communications, Commercial, Digital, Events, Legal, Regulatory, and Global/Regional teams.
• Strong project management, prioritization, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage a high volume of requests and competing priorities.
• Experience managing agencies, vendors, contractors, designers, or external creative partners.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience supporting a company launch, rebrand, corporate transformation, merger, acquisition, or organizational separation.
• Experience managing Brand Centers, digital asset management platforms, Frontify, Bynder, SharePoint, Airtable, or similar systems.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Experience with Canva, PowerPoint design, presentation development, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to create and edit branded assets, templates, presentations, and simple creative executions independently.
• Experience developing brand guidelines, governance systems, training programs, self-service resources, and stakeholder education materials.
• Familiarity with brand architecture, product branding, packaging, environmental branding, event branding, and digital brand governance.
• Experience within healthcare, MedTech, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience supporting global or multi-region brand strategies and stakeholder groups.
• Language: English required; additional languages a plus.

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year