Brand Manager, Strategy And Governance

Brand Manager, Strategy and Governance#26-20469 $81-$83 per hour Lisle, IL Onsite Job Description Our Client, a Truck and Engine Manufacturing company, is looking for a Brand Manager, Strategy and Governance for their Lisle, IL location.

Responsibilities:

Project manage brand initiatives directed by the Enterprise Brand Lead, driving them to completion on schedule and ensuring consistent brand expression across the business. Maintain and socialize the brand frameworks, standards, and review processes defined by the Enterprise Brand Lead, and route incoming work through the established review process. Manage timelines, deliverables, and issue resolution for brand programs and initiatives across internal teams and external partners. Implement and maintain the measurement frameworks, dashboards, and reporting defined by leadership to track brand health, adoption, quality, and business impact. Collect, organize, and synthesize inputs from multiple sources to produce executiveready updates, presentations, and status reports for the Enterprise Brand Lead and senior leadership. Flag process gaps, risks, and execution issues to the Enterprise Brand Lead, and propose tactical improvements to operating rhythms and workflows. Coordinate and execute internal brand education and change management activities, including workshops, training sessions, toolkits, and communications, in support of broader adoption efforts. Help execute the transition of brand management work into internal processes, including daytoday coordination with agencies and partners during transition. Project manage the implementation of environmental design standards across dealerships and company locations, ensuring physical spaces are executed in line with established brand standards. Work with stakeholders to support consistent brand application across customerfacing environments, including dealership touchpoints, facilities, signage, and other physical expressions of the brand.

Requirements:

Have demonstrated experience coordinating or project managing crossfunctional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams Have experience operating within or supporting governance processes, operating models, or established workflows Demonstrate strong operational discipline, organization, prioritization, and followthrough Have solid analytical skills with the ability to work with data, populate measurement frameworks, and translate findings into clear status updates Have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise, polished, executiveready materials Be able to influence without direct authority and work effectively in a matrixed organization Be comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to evolving work Demonstrate attention to detail and a commitment to brand quality Have experience working with creative teams, agencies, brand systems, customer experience programs, or designrelated functions (preferred) Have experience supporting physical brand implementation, environmental design, dealership standards, retail environments, or facility branding (a plus) Be adept at using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and project management or workflow tools Experience working at a brand strategy agency or within a brand strategy/brand management team is a plus

Basic Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, design management, or related field Minimum 4 years of experience in brand management, communications, marketing, program or project management, design operations, or a related discipline OR Master's degree in marketing, communications, business, design management, or related field At least 2 years of experience in brand management, communications, marketing, program or project management, design operations, or a related discipline.