Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company managing a diverse portfolio of modern pet health brands and services. The Sr Brand Manager- Marketing supports the planning, development, and execution of marketing campaigns and initiatives to enhance brand strategy and governance.
Responsibilities:
- Co‑lead an agency engagement to develop the full brand platform
- Translate the platform into actionable toolkits: messaging matrices, value‑prop frameworks, tone/voice guidelines, copy banks, and creative guardrails
- Establish portfolio strategy and naming systems
- Design and interpret qual/quant research; synthesize findings into insights
- Develop segmentation and consumer portraits
- Launch brand governance systems, templates, and guidelines
- Create playbooks, training, and internal enablement
- Build a brand center of assets
- Own brand voice and messaging architecture
- Write creative briefs and evaluate creative for strategic alignment
- Collaborate with Product on naming, architecture, and guardrails
- Architect brand health tracking and dashboards
- Define leading indicators
- Facilitate alignment workshops across Product, CX, Sales, HR, and Executives
- Partner with Legal & Compliance
- Translate the brand platform into integrated campaigns
- Maintain message consistency across channels
- Hire and develop a brand team
- Manage agencies and creative partners
Requirements:
- 8–10+ years in brand/marketing with brand platform experience
- Experience leading brand strategy engagements
- Strong messaging and writing capabilities
- Governance and enablement experience
- Measurement and brand health literacy
- Leadership and cross-functional influence
- 8 year's professional marketing and/or relevant experience leadership
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, related field, or equivalent work experience (One-year relevant experience is equivalent to one-year college)