Brand Strategy Manager
About The Position
This role is located at our Corporate Office in Arden Hills, MN. We offer a hybrid work environment that consists of 3 days in the office (T/W/Th) and 2 days remote/virtual (M/F). This role does not offer full remote/virtual. This role does not offer relocation assistance. Join an ambitious and dynamic marketing team that is making a difference in the world. We’re expanding our brand strategy, insights and analytics team and looking for strategic, empathetic thinkers. You’ll work on brands that sit at the heart of cultural change and commercial opportunity. You are an adept navigator who consumes and interprets disparate information into powerful insights and ideas. You are a storyteller who can write and present insights that inspire. You enjoy a challenge and have experience working on B2B and/or B2C brands.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent advertising agency experience.
- 10+ years of overall marketing experience with 8+ years’ experience with Brand Planner, Creative Strategist, Consumer Insights/Researcher, or related in an agency, research firm or similar environment.
- Strong verbal skills.
- Strong writing skills.
- Excellent interpersonal relationship building skills.
- Strong storytelling skills – deck writing, user stories – develop a narrative and amplify with visuals and data; ability to translate brand strategies to paid/earned/owned activations.
- Experience working in cross-disciplinary teams.
- Experienced in balancing multiple projects and tight deadlines, collaborating deeply with people from multiple disciplines along the way.
- Experienced working on CPG and/or agriculture brands.
- Quant and qual research expertise.
Nice To Haves
- Curious: dive in with incomplete information and find momentum; ask questions and seek answers when appropriate; equally adept at observing and listening.
- Adaptive: works across brands and business units; able to flex from on carbon farming project to measuring brand reputation to messaging on consumer products.
- Ambitious: want to be part of a company that feeds the world and changes the way we think about farmers and farming.
- Energetic: approaches work with energy, passion and collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Drive and elevate foundational brand strategy work across a diverse portfolio of brands within Land O’ Lakes.
- Oversee and help lead brand planning, including architecture, positioning, assessment and foundational brand strategy work, as well as trend forecasting and customer journey/experience work.
- Ensure that all work is grounded in consumer/customer insights.
- Continue to elevate brand planning thinking and create thought-leadership on key topics.
- Lead the team and the department’s work through a highly-matrixed organization.
- Leverage collaboration and influence to best partner on projects and move the organization forward.
- Help the team prioritize, navigate and build advocacy for their work.
- Help tell better stories and share successes with internal and external audiences.
- Own the development of compelling brand strategies with internal and external partners and guide the strategic alignment of brands through clear, concise and actionable strategy.
- Help refine and guide the craft of brand strategy within Land O’Lakes.
- Ensure that businesses and creative remain on-brand, relevant and are a growth engine for businesses.
- Act as the voice of the consumer/customer by identifying, contextualizing and understanding audiences.
- Uncover unique points of empathy and insights that can create growth for businesses and marketing.
- Help internal teams think differently about their consumer/customer.
- In partnership with internal and external partners, lead the analysis of industry trends, competitive positioning, and consumer needs and behavior to understand brands’ consumer/customer and cultural landscape.
- Steer the trend practice, monitoring cultural/consumer change and creating demand for trend research.
- Continue to find new ways to navigate and share trend stories and maintain the cadence and polish of the work.
- Lead cross-functional teams to refine and evolve customer experience and journey mapping.
- Facilitate integrated sessions, develop tools, and map the customer journey/experience.
- Shape the future of the discipline and own thought-leadership.
- Advance topics and thinking around emerging trends, technologies (AI) and practices related to brand strategy, insight and research.
Benefits
- A broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
