Senior Marketing Strategist, Office of the Chief Brand Officer

We are seeking a Senior Marketing Strategist to support the Office of the Chief Brand Officer. This person will work in close partnership with the Chief of Staff & Head of Brand Strategy serving as a peer-level collaborator on strategy communications and cross-functional project management across a 300 person brand organization.

This is a high-visibility high-impact contract for someone who is equally comfortable building an executive deck from scratch tracking a KPI framework end-to-end and driving a cross-functional workstream all without a lot of oversight. Youre not waiting to be told what to do. Youre connecting the dots chasing down answers and moving work forward.

The right person for this role:

• Has worked in or alongside a C-suite marketing or brand leader you understand how executives think and what they need
• Builds polished executive-ready presentations and documents with speed and precision
• Treats project management as a discipline timelines milestones blockers dependencies all tracked
• Is hands-on keyboard and unafraid of the grunt work this is a doer role not a director role
• Knows how to navigate a large matrixed organization with confidence and good judgment
• Handles confidential organizational information with absolute discretion

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 5 days in-office presence required
Compensation: $80/hr

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Performance Tracking

  • Partner with the Chief of Staff to translate Brand and Marketing priorities into initiatives OKRs/KPIs baselines and targets
  • Synthesize performance data and research into decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership everything substantiated and backed

• Executive Storytelling & Communications

  • Co-develop executive narratives and briefing materials with the Chief of Staff
  • Build C-suite presentations including MBRs and leadership readouts
  • Prepare talking points and read-aheads for the Chief Brand Officer
  • Understand what goes up across and down and craft each piece accordingly for its audience

• Cross-Functional Project Management

  • Co-orchestrate workstreams across Brand Product Marketing Lines of Business and agency partners
  • Own multiple projects end-to-end with minimal oversight managing timelines interdependencies risks and milestone reporting
  • Track progress escalate blockers and deliver on time with consistently high quality

• Organizational Effectiveness & Operations

  • Work with the Chief of Staff to identify bottlenecks and implement improvements
  • Institutionalize cadences templates and dashboards that streamline planning approvals and measurement across the Brand org

• Stakeholder Partnership & Executive Readiness

  • Serve alongside the Chief of Staff as a conduit between the CBO internal teams and external partners
  • Build trusted relationships anticipate issues and drive timely decisions
  • Prepare high-quality materials to ensure the CBO is fully ready for speaking engagements boards and leadership forums

• Brand Org Communications & Town Halls

  • Co-own planning and content for Brand org communications in partnership with the Chief of Staff
  • Shape agendas and develop executive-ready materials for org-wide town halls and BURs
  • Design communication flows to CBO direct reports briefing notes action summaries and read-outs that drive clarity alignment and follow-through

Qualifications :

Must-Haves

• Proven ability to build executive-quality presentations strategy briefs and documents from ambiguous fast-moving inputs this is the #1 skill
• Experience defining tracking and synthesizing OKRs/KPIs into leadership-ready reporting
• Strong cross-functional project management skills able to juggle multiple workstreams without losing momentum
• Background in corporate strategy management consulting Chief of Staff support or a COO/ops-adjacent function
• Experience working in or alongside large matrixed organizations
• High discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive or confidential organizational information
• Self-starter with high initiative proactively moves work forward without waiting to be directed

Nice to Have

• Financial services or regulated industry experience
• Familiarity with marketing and brand organizations
• Experience supporting a CMO CBO or senior marketing executive directly

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 :

A note on title:

• Our client uses VP as a mid-senior individual contributor title (roughly 710 years of experience). This is not a people management role. Were listing this externally as Senior Marketing Strategist to attract candidates who are the right fit the internal client title will be shared with finalists.

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