Vice President of Brand Marketing

Lenexa, KS (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own and evolve a global brand voice while directing PR, social, and executive communications across markets, with a trusted advisory role to the CCO and cross-functional leadership.

  • Own global brand voice, PR strategy, and social programs for wholesale and retail
  • Guide international teams and collaborate with executives on major brand announcements

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the company's global brand voice, tone, and communication guidelines across corporate, wholesale, and retail (B2B and B2C), ensuring consistency worldwide while allowing for market-specific nuance
  • Lead global communications and public relations strategy — including for wholesale initiatives, key selling events, and the True Society collective — translating business objectives into an integrated brand marketing roadmap spanning PR, internal communications, and social
  • Provide executive oversight of public and media outreach, approving high-visibility external communications across U.S. and European markets
  • Partner directly with the CCO on global brand positioning and major announcements serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership
  • Own the overarching social strategy for wholesale and retail, translating brand positioning and audience insights into channel-native programs that drive awareness, consideration, and conversion with brides-to-be
  • Lead global teams in adapting social strategies for local markets while maintaining brand voice consistency, and drive the best practices and standards needed to scale the global social function
  • Partner with the visual brand identity team to ensure voice and visual expression stay aligned worldwide
  • Identify and translate emerging cultural trends into brand-relevant opportunities
  • Lead and develop the global Communications and Social teams — coaching Directors and Managers on their individual growth and goals, and fostering a culture of curiosity, ideation, and continuous learning
  • Partner and collaborate cross-functionally with leaders across the business to bring wholesale and retail brand storytelling to life

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field required
  • 12+ years of progressive experience in brand marketing, communications, or social media leadership, including agency and client-side experience
  • 5+ years managing Director-level or senior leaders, with a proven record of developing people managers
  • Experience leading or partnering with international/global teams; comfort managing across time zones and cultural contexts
  • Experience partnering directly with C-suite or executive leadership on brand strategy
  • Strong organizational design instincts – comfortable making and defending structural/reporting decisions, including across international lines
  • Cultural fluency and sensitivity when leading a global team; awareness of market-specific nuances
  • Strategic and analytical: comfortable moving between big-picture brand vision and campaign-level performance data
  • High emotional intelligence; skilled at coaching senior leaders remotely and in person
  • Polished executive presence; able to represent the brand and the function at the leadership table

Preferred

  • Experience in a consumer-facing brand, retail, fashion, or luxury environment strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.
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Essense of Australia

Essense of Australia is a leading international bridal gown design house and wholesaler that creates and manufactures award-winning wedding dresses for independent bridal retailers throughout the world under labels Stella York, All Who Wander, Essense of Australia and Martina Liana, as well as private label collection, Oxford Street, and bridesmaid label, Sorella Vita. The Essense of Australia journey began nearly 30 years ago as a shared adventure that took place when co-owners Wayne and Martine Harris met and grew to become the worldwide industry leader that is Essense of Australia and its family of brands. Partners in life and in business, their shared dream grew into a global bridal company blending Wayne’s talent for business and Martine’s experience in bridal design. Ever since, the Harris’ have changed the way the bridal industry approaches and values the relationship between designers, retailers and brides. Innovative design combined with a passion for delivering an exceptional experience has propelled Essense of Australia forward as a world-renowned company, allowing its international team to flourish in an environment that encourages living one’s best professional and personal life. Now employing more than 400 team members worldwide, the Essense team is truly valued as the heart of its growing success as a global company. The company’s Lenexa, Kansas office serves as northern hemisphere headquarters and showroom, while its office in Perth, WA, Australia serves as the southern hemisphere headquarters and showroom. Additional offices located in the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Canada help complete the Essense global footprint. The Essense of Australia family of brands can be found at more than 1,200 retailers worldwide, including the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe. For more information about Essense of Australia and available positions, please visit www.essensedesigns.com/careers.

Founded in 1996
Lenexa, Kansas, USA
275 employees (55 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
32 (12% of company)
Median Tenure
7.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
230K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.2%
Direct
47.6%
Referral
6.7%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~275
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Vice President of Brand Marketing

Essense of Australia · Lenexa, KS · Unknown