Senior Manager Brand Strategy
UL Solutions · Chicago, IL · 2 wk ago
HybridMarketing$150k–$180k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Enterprise Brand Strategy & Positioning
- Lead the definition and evolution of Masterbrand positioning, value propositions, and strategic messaging frameworks
- Ensure clear articulation of UL Solutions' brand, values, and impact across customers, industries, and markets
- Align brand strategy with business priorities, portfolio evolution, and long-term growth
- Portfolio, Solution & GTM Storytelling
- Own enterprise narrative architecture, including masterbrand, portfolio, and solution-level storytelling frameworks
- Partner closely with Product Marketing and Solutions Marketing to align solution narratives with the masterbrand
- Clarify differentiation in competitive and regulated markets
- Enable consistent GTM storytelling across sales, marketing, and content
- Provide strategic guidance to Field Marketing to localize and activate stories without fragmenting the brand
- Masterbrand Storytelling & Strategic Synchronization
- Define enterprise storytelling priorities and narrative guardrails that guide content, campaigns, and experiences
- Ensure consistency in how brand narratives travel across owned, paid, and earned channels
- Lead brand strategy governance in partnership with Creative Ops and Marketing Ops
- Develop strategic brand frameworks, playbooks, and guidance for scalable execution
- Leadership of Brand Storytelling & Content Strategy
- Provide strategic leadership and prioritization for global brand storytelling efforts
- Mentor a Content Strategist to set narrative direction, scope, and priorities
- Ensure storytelling and content strategies are grounded in brand objectives, audience insight, and GTM needs
- Insights, Growth & Strategic Direction
- Lead strategic brand and market research to understand brand health, relevance, and differentiation
- Translate insights into clear, executive-ready implications for brand, marketing, and commercial leadership
- Inform the long-term brand and narrative roadmap in support of enterprise and GTM evolution
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field
- Proven B2B brand builder with 9–11 years of experience in brand strategy, positioning, narrative development, or enterprise marketing
- Experience operating across brand, portfolio, and GTM strategy in a complex or global organization
- Proven ability to drive change through influence with focus on strategic integration across teams
- Influences without authority across a complex, matrixed organization
- Demonstrated success in delivering results in a fluid, fast-changing environment
What You’ll Experience
- Working for a global leader in applied safety science
- Transforming safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers
- Using your ideas, energy, and ambition to innovate, challenge, and create a safer world
- Connecting with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together
- Empowering customers to keep the world safe through innovative products and services
- Joining a community working towards a safer future for future generations
About Us
- A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS)
- Transforms safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries
- Delivers testing, inspection, and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings
- Helps customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly