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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

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