VP, Brand Strategy & Communications

We are seeking a sharp proactive VP Brand Strategy & Communications to support the Brand Strategy Office within a leading financial institutions marketing organization. This individual will serve as a key strategic partner to the Head of Brand Strategy and her Chief of Staff supporting a team of 300 brand professionals across multiple lines of business.

This is a high-visibility high-impact contract role for someone comfortable navigating ambiguity operating at pace and delivering polished executive-ready work. The right person isnt waiting to be told what to do theyre proactively connecting dots chasing down answers and driving work forward.

Location: New York City preferred. Open to Jersey City NJ Chicago IL Columbus OH Wilmington DE
Contract Start: ASAP
Contract Term: 8 months with potential to extend
Working Hours: 40 hours/week in-office presence required
Compensation: $80/hr

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Strategy Support - Respond to high-priority ambiguous asks from top executives including LOB CEOs & CMOs. Go beyond deck-building: develop deeply thoughtful strategy briefs and materials that synthesize complex information into clear compelling narratives with a strong point of view and a defined path to action.
• Campaign & Organizational Strategy - Think holistically about how the brand organization works together. Support campaign strategy development across lines of business while also helping leadership think through how the organization itself operates evolves and aligns.
• Data Insights & Recommendations - Pull together research performance data and cross-functional inputs to validate and substantiate strategic recommendations. Everything needs to be backed by data this person knows how to build a story around the numbers and generate a strategy to complement the insights.
• Executive Communications - Support the development of executive communications across multiple audiences from the CMO and CEOs down to brand managers and broader team members. Will be asked to help determine what to send up across and down. Structure town halls develop thoughtful agendas and ensure information flows clearly across the organization and to key partners.
• Cross-Functional Partnership - Work across brand managers insights teams paid media and core strategy. Run point on gathering inputs connecting with 20 stakeholders when needed and synthesizing it all into something leadership can act on. 
• Project Management & Execution - Manage multiple workstreams simultaneously with strong organizational discipline. Track projects keep things moving and ensure nothing falls through the cracks in a fast-moving complex environment.
• Confidentiality & Judgment - This role will have exposure to sensitive organizational information including transformation activities headcount and leadership decisions. Strong discretion and sound judgment are non-negotiable.

Qualifications :

• Background in corporate strategy management consulting or a related strategic function

• Exceptional ability to build executive-quality presentations strategy briefs and documents from ambiguous fast-moving inputs

• Proven experience working with or presenting to C-suite and senior executive stakeholders

• Strong executive communications instincts understands how to cascade information up across and down a large organization

• Comfort with data and insights able to interpret research validate findings and build a compelling strategy around them

• Strong project management skills; able to juggle multiple workstreams simultaneously without losing momentum

• Experience working in or alongside large matrixed organizations able to connect dots navigate complexity and figure things out independently

• Self-starter with high initiative; proactively moves work forward without waiting to be directed

• High emotional intelligence and discretion when handling sensitive or confidential organizational information

• Comfortable with ambiguity; able to move quickly without sacrificing quality

• Financial services or regulated industry experience a plus 

The ideal candidate has worked in a corporate strategy management consulting or COO/Chief of Staff-adjacent role someone who understands how executives think and can translate that into polished actionable materials. They have the presence and credibility to represent the team in cross-functional settings the analytical chops to back recommendations in data and the hustle to do the footwork themselves. Not too senior to get their hands dirty this person runs toward the work.

Additional Information :

We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the worlds biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018 We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works with an inclusive human-centric approach thats better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces the Inc.and Adweeks Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.

We Are Rosie is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status marital status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract