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Manager, Brand Strategy

Manager, Brand Strategy - Commercial Bank TOH

Capital One Brand Creative is looking for an experienced, innovative, strategic leader who has managed and led brand strategy teams. You are evidence based in everything you do, and default to leading with insights, crunching key performance indicators, and can write objectives and key results (OKRs) effortlessly. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a Brand Strategy team whom you will include, empower, and inspire to build future brand strategy talent and leaders. You will interface with senior executives and leadership teams across the multi-faceted Commercial Bank, and should be able to build partnerships and influence key decisions.

What you'll do:

• Manage Brand Strategy for Commercial Bank. This includes, but is not limited to developing: value propositions (both top of house & line of business), go to market strategies, competitor analysis deep dives, naming products, and fully integrated marketing
  
• Consult and guide editorial strategy and practices for thought leadership campaigns, and partner with External Affairs & Brand Media to execute both sponsored content and mass ad campaigns
  
• Seek out partnerships across Brand to drive key initiatives impacting Naming, Architecture, Positioning, Performance Marketing, and business to business (B2B) Brand Awareness
  
• Write and edit creative briefs that include informed insights and radically clear and focused messaging, and partner closely with our Commercial Brand Creative team to ensure deliverables ladder back to our strategy
  
• Optimize brand strategies informed by past results, market changes, and consumer insights
  
• As a people leader, you are expected to practice inclusive leadership: providing context for their team and leaders, identifying potential risks, opportunities and gaps, and inspiring your team to produce effective brand strategies
  

Sounds awesome, right? (Great, we think so too). You'll make a big impact in these areas:

• Business Payments (Commercial Card & Treasury Management)
  
• Corporate Banking & Middle Market
  
• Healthcare Lending & Finance
  
• Financial Institutions Group (Lending money to other lenders)
  
• Commercial Real Estate (Balance Sheet & Agency Multi-family)
  
• Capital Markets
  

Who you are

You want to be an EVIDENCE-BASED MARKETER who...

As an INDIVIDUAL :

• Your curiosity is endless. There's always something else to learn.
  
• You're flexible and not afraid of change-in fact you welcome the challenge.
  
• You share your point of view, but seek out what might be missing and listen.
  
• You have big ideas and know the best ones are driven by proof, persistence and patience.
  
• You're a storyteller. You simplify the complex and compel your audience to act.
  
• You know how to enjoy yourself. While fun isn't mandatory, it certainly seems to follow you.
  
• You care-about the work, your team and the customers you serve.
  

As a LEADER :

• You value authenticity over perfection. You lead with empathy, vulnerability and honesty.
  
• You deeply invest in understanding the humans around you.
  
• You say what needs to be said and work hard to find the right words.
  
• You're an expert. You also know when you're not and need to find one.
  
• You use all this - to make things happen, create amazing work and inspire others.
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or military experience
  
• At least 3 years of experience managing strategic teams in brand, marketing, or creative fields
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Portfolio that includes produced work for large, integrated marketing campaigns.
  
• 5 or more years of experience as a Brand Strategy Manager
  
• Experience at a large in-house creative or brand strategy team
  
• Experience working with a Fortune 100 brand
  

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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