The role

The Senior Brand Manager ensures brand integrity across all marketing initiatives and communications by deeply understanding the consumer, the competitive landscape, and the core brand offering. This starts with supporting the Head of Brand Management & CMO in arriving at and owning the brand strategy, then developing omni-channel brand campaigns, creative briefs, and marketing plans that bring this strategy to life with best-in-class execution. As the marketing “brand guardian,” this role works cross-functionally to ensure the brand remains consistent and relevant across all customer touch points, driving consideration and trial. 

The Brand Manager reports directly into the Head of Brand Management for Specialty Retail, while collaborating closely with CMO, Creative, Content and Marketing channel . This role will focus primarily on a single brand while contributing to platform capabilities, best practice sharing and implementation cross-brand. 

What You’ll Do

• Crystalize the brand strategy with the CMO & Head of Brand Management and manage its execution and consistency across customer touch points 
• Provide market research brand-specific roadmap to customer insights team including brand health tracking and creative testing
• Set brand marketing communications calendar in partnership with the Brand & Curated Merchandising team to ensure all activities and messaging are part of a single, cohesive cross-channel & site calendar reflective of brand priorities.
• Develop process for executing and measuring brand campaigns including analyzing spend required to move the needle, writing creative briefs, developing marketing plans, and effectively incorporating performance marketing goals 
• Centralize brand learnings, distill key creative themes, and optimize to improve performance
• Partner with Brand & Curated Merchandising, Imagery, and Creative teams to ensure brand positioning is effectively integrated into all creative assets
• Assist channel owners in developing creative concepts that drive customers through their buying journey and to site, and help communicate these concepts to Creative to develop channel assets 
• Set up high-level testing program on active channels and lead onboarding to new channels (e.g. Online Video) where brand-building is at the forefront of the channel objectives including selecting creative and feeding testing results back for asset iteration
• Develop omni channel performance models to determine spend targets, cross channel reach, market penetration, and ideal channel mix 
• Analyze customer lifetime value of brand campaigns through customer segmentation, impact measurement, audience targeting, and lift studies
• Link quarterly brand tracker to brand positioning and strategy, measure progress, incorporate results iteratively into upcoming creative briefs
• Partner with Brand & Curated Merchandising team to ensure editorial concepts, promotions, style trends, points of view, product inclusion, and on-site content are properly integrated into marketing communications 
• Share brand marketing trends and best practices cross-functionally and incorporate into future initiatives 
• Utilize insights and learnings to identify brand marketing opportunities

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of experience working in brand marketing in a consumer brand, agency, and/or consulting capacity 
• A deep understanding of and curiosity about consumer behavior
• Demonstrated balance of being highly analytical and originally creative
• Critical thinking including the ability to break down complex ideas and generate insights and solutions or strategically build a story from large data sets
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence senior-level and cross-functional stakeholders 
• Ability to communicate a high-level brand vision as well as give tactical creative feedback
• Strong verbal and written skills including distilling data into compelling, insight-led presentations
• Superb project management skills including the ability to work on multiple projects at once
• An ownership mindset with the ability to streamline processes and thrive in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment with a “get stuff done” attitude
• Collaborative team player who wants to see the whole team succeed and thrive
• Familiarity with the latest market trends and best practices especially as it relates to the target consumer