Brand Strategy Manager, OpenBlue Solutions and Services

Johnson Controls International; Neuhausen am Rheinfall; Hybrid; CHF 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Brand Manager to lead global branding for digital technology and service offerings. You will govern brand strategy, drive naming, and coordinate across product management and commercial teams to ensure consistent, market-ready branding across regions.

The role requires collaboration, strategic thinking, and strong communication in an international context. Willingness to travel and work in a hybrid setup with a portion in Neuhausen is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Communications.
• Experience in marketing digital technology and solutions
• Specific experience in Brand Strategy development for technologies or services
• Demonstrated track record in leading with collaboration and team work
• Strong sense of curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit in actively looking for opportunities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and spoken English language skill is essential to this position
• Strong writing, analytical, project management and organizational skills
• Thrives in fast paced international environment and has a strong sense of urgency
• Willing to work 3 days from the office in Neuhausen

Responsibilities

• Define the brand strategy and delivery of the JCI digital technology and service brands
• Lead digital naming processes and stakeholder sign-off
• Lead global roll out of brand strategy updates, transformations and integrations
• Engage stakeholders in ideating new impactful brand strategy opportunities and driving evolution in the brand strategy in line with customer insights, market trends and competitive pressures
• Steer and deliver competitive benchmarks and analysis for JCI’s global brand performance in digital technologies and services space, driving to recommendations that breakthrough in this industry
• Lead governance in the global activation of the digital technologies and services brand strategy, map progress and close gaps
• Lead key thought leadership and positioning programs that build the equity and strength of the digital technology and services brands
• Advance programs and activities to empower unified expressions and global alignment and engagement in the digital solutions and service brands, externally and internally
• Strategize and deliver brand integration approaches for new acquisitions and joint venturesas well as for events and showcases

Skills

Brand strategy

Digital marketing

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Communications

Job description

What will you do

The Brand Manager is a critical global role in the Johnson Controls brand function. The Manager will drive all brand strategy, governance and program deliverables for digital solutions and service offerings across Johnson Controls with focus on the brand architecture, brand performance improvement, competitive benchmarking and breakthrough strategies as well as naming of new offerings in global alignment with product management and commercial plans.

How you will do it

• Define the brand strategy and delivery of the JCI digital technology and service brands
• Lead digital naming processes and stakeholder sign-off
• Lead global roll out of brand strategy updates, transformations and integrations
• Engage stakeholders in ideating new impactful brand strategy opportunities and driving evolution in the brand strategy in line with customer insights, market trends and competitive pressures
• Steer and deliver competitive benchmarks and analysis for JCI’s global brand performance in digital technologies and services space, driving to recommendations that breakthrough in this industry
• Lead governance in the global activation of the digital technologies and services brand strategy, map progress and close gaps
• Lead key thought leadership and positioning programs that build the equity and strength of the digital technology and services brands
• Advance programs and activities to empower unified expressions and global alignment and engagement in the digital solutions and service brands, externally and internally
• Strategize and deliver brand integration approaches for new acquisitions and joint venturesas well as for events and showcases

What we look for

Required

• Bachelordegree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Communications.
• Experience in marketing digital technology and solutions
• Specific experience in Brand Strategy development for technologies or services
• Demonstrated track record in leading with collaboration and team work
• Strong sense of curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit in actively looking for opportunities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills,written and spoken English language skillis essential to this position
• Strong writing, analytical, project management and organizational skills
• Thrives in fast paced international environment and has a strong sense of urgency
• Willing to work 3 days from the office in Neuhausen

Preferred

• B2B brand marketing
• Industry relevant experience incl digital technologies
• Brand strategy/execution
• Strong sense of visual identity building blocks
• Engaging communication and managementskills
• Managing internal communities and driving engagement

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