SVP, Brand Strategy Director

Princeton, NJ (On-site)

$125K/yr – $300K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own multi-disciplinary brand strategy with senior-client ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and a focus on growth across pharma/healthcare and CPG markets.

  • Growth leadership: own omni-channel strategies across brand, CRM, content, and experience with end-to-end measurement.
  • Client leadership: manage senior relationships, drive opportunities, and present compelling strategic options to executives.
  • Strategic innovation: lead new research methods, develop engaging insights, and evolve the strategy process to raise the agency profile.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Inspire and initiate marketing solutions that are original in concept and aid clients to transform their brands and grow their businesses
  • Produce groundbreaking brand, culture, customer, and media insights
  • Develop the ideas that power our Creative work and galvanize our cross-functional partners
  • Determine strategy and tactics across the journey to enable brands to grow relationships with people, from engagement and conversion to retention and advocacy
  • Develop omni-channel ecosystems, including digital, experience, content, CRM, social, and traditional across paid / owned / earned
  • Integrate across different types of strategy, from business / digital transformation and brand to experience, CRM, content, and social
  • Partner across disciplines with Creative, Media, Technology, Data, Business Leadership, others
  • Ensure all strategic development is consistently linked to the client’s challenges and opportunities and provide input into measurement and optimization
  • Present to the highest level of an organization and effectively persuade others, making the complex simple and the simple compelling
  • Manage a portfolio of key clients, contributing day-to-day in a leadership capacity

Requirements

  • 12+ years directly-related experience
  • 7+ years supervisory and management experience
  • Experience across multiple categories, with significant experience in pharma/healthcare and CPG
  • Understanding of Business & Digital Transformation Strategy, Brand Strategy, Experience Strategy, CRM Strategy, Content Strategy, Social Strategy
  • Experience working with segmentation and journeys, understanding of how brands grow relationships with people
  • Experience building go-to-market plans across omnichannel ecosystem
  • Ability to inspire Creative teams
  • Comfort and confidence with technology required to enable brand relationships, including up-to-date knowledge of mar-tech
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area
  • Strong collaboration skills and flexibility with different ways to work is required
MRM logo

MRM

MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency that builds enduring brand relationships. MRM's core capabilities help grow relationship lifetime value and span across CRM & Loyalty, Customer Experience, Commerce and MarTech, underpinned by Data & Analytics. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way to allow for greater collaboration and velocity. MRM is part of McCann Worldgroup and the Interpublic Group of companies (NYSE: IPG), and spans 35 offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com.

Founded in 1982
New York, New York, USA
3.2K employees (884 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.9%
Direct
48.9%
Referral
8.1%
Social
4.5%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
497 (15% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
5.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Recent News