Vice President, Brand & Marketing

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Enterprise Brand Leadership

• Serve as the lead steward of the health system’s brand, ensuring clarity, consistency, and differentiation across all markets, platforms, and experiences.
• Define, evolve, and protect the enterprise brand strategy, value proposition, and narrative to support growth, reputation, and trust.
• Ensure brand alignment across clinical, digital, consumer, employer, philanthropic, and community-facing initiatives.
• Lead brand architecture, visual identity systems, messaging frameworks, and brand governance across a complex, multi-market organization.

Marketing & Growth Strategy

• Develop and execute an integrated marketing strategy aligned with enterprise growth priorities, including service line growth, geographic expansion, digital health, and consumer acquisition and retention.
• Oversee demand generation, lifecycle marketing, and personalization strategies to drive awareness, access, utilization, and growth.
• Partner closely with enterprise strategy, service line, digital, and market leaders to translate growth priorities into actionable marketing plans.
• Establish performance metrics, KPIs, and measurement frameworks to assess marketing effectiveness, ROI, and contribution to enterprise growth.

Consumer Experience & Loyalty

• Champion a consumer- and family-centered approach to marketing and engagement, grounded in empathy, trust, and data-driven insights.
• Collaborate with experience, digital, and access leaders to deliver cohesive, on-brand experiences across the patient and family journey.
• Lead strategies that build long-term loyalty, advocacy, and emotional connection with patients, families, and communities.

Strategic Partnerships & External Engagement

• Lead and manage strategic brand and marketing partnerships that extend reach, enhance credibility, and support enterprise growth objectives.
• Collaborate with corporate, community, media, sports, entertainment, and mission-aligned partners to amplify brand impact.
• Ensure all partnerships align with brand values, pediatric and women’s health mission, and applicable regulatory standards.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team across brand, marketing strategy, digital marketing, media, and partnerships.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee agency and vendor relationships to ensure high-quality execution, fiscal responsibility, and strong return on investment.

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

• Proven success leading brand and marketing strategy within complex, matrixed organizations; healthcare experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to drive growth, brand equity, and loyalty through integrated marketing and consumer engagement strategies.
• Experience managing large teams, budgets, and external partners or agencies.
• Deep expertise in consumer insights, digital marketing, and data-driven decision-making.
• Track record of building, evolving, and protecting iconic, trusted brands.
• Strategic and visionary thinker with strong execution discipline.
• Consumer- and mission-centered leadership approach.
• Influential collaborator and trusted enterprise partner.
• Results-oriented, data-driven decision-maker.
• Change leader comfortable navigating complexity and scale.

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field (required)
• Master’s degree (preferred)

Experience

• Minimum of 12 years of progressive leadership experience in brand, marketing, or growth roles (required)
• Significant experience operating at the enterprise or national level (required)
• Experience within healthcare, health and wellness, academic medical centers, and/or mission-driven organizations (preferred)

 

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. 

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation. 

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 Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.