Senior Brand Leader

OLBERDING; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/hybrid work schedules

PTO & holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Olberding Brand Family in Chicago is seeking a Senior Brand Leader to guide client brands from strategy through execution while leading cross-functional teams and managing client relations. The role emphasizes delivering high‑impact branding for consumer products, with a focus on staying on brief, on budget, and on time.

You will contribute to project supervision, write key documents, and identify opportunities to grow partnerships with clients.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience branding, advertising or marketing.
• Consumer product company knowledge or experience.
• Agency experience preferred.
• BS or BA in Marketing, Advertising, or similar degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage project teams to deliver client work on brief, on brand, on budget and on schedule.
• Supervise accounts, identify workflow improvements, and partner with creatives on strategic opportunities.
• Create estimates, maintain schedules and budget records, track project vs. budget, and process billing.
• Demonstrate strong business writing and produce conference reports, status reports, research summaries, and competitive analyses.
• Understand client business and competitive landscape; build professional client communication.

Skills

Branding

Project management

Client management

Business writing

Education

BS/BA in Marketing or Advertising

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Founded in 1919 as Phototype, and rebranded as the Olberding Brand Family, we are a family company, focused first on caring for people. We believe that by valuing our employees, they in turn are inspired to champion our clients and the brands they bring to life. We have a variety of services which help CPG clients engage consumers through graphic design and execution. Our services begin in conceptual brand strategy and design, then flow through adaptive design all the way to the production of color accurate and regulatory/retailer compliant physical and digital touch points. There are over 450 of us across the US, Europe, and Asia. Won’t you join us? We’d love to have you on our team!

The Senior Brand Leader partners with various Olberding Brand Family teams to support our clients in helping to market the brands they produce, and consumers have come to love. The right candidate must be able to lead and manage day-to-day requests while working directly with clients for some of America’s favorite CPG brands.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Lead and manage project teams to ensure that the client needs are delivered on brief, aligned with brand standards, within budget and in assigned timeline
• Strong contributor to account supervision with management of company procedures, ability to identify and influence areas of improvement within project workflow and partner with creatives to deliver strategic opportunities to grow the business
• Demonstrate mastery of project management skills in creating, monitoring and tracking projects. Should be able to handle the following tasks with minimal to no supervision:
  • Create estimates
  • Maintain accurate schedules and budget records
  • Track project versus budget
  • Process billing to our internal finance department
• Demonstrates strong business writing skills and develop the ability to write the following documents with minimal to no edits:
  • Conference reports
  • Status reports
  • Research summaries
  • Competitive analysis
• Demonstrate understanding of client’s business and competitive landscape
• Build client communication skills and demonstrates professionalism in all aspects of client interaction

Qualifications Include:

• BS or BA in Marketing, Advertising, or similar degree preferred
• 8+ years’ experience branding, advertising or marketing
• Consumer product company knowledge or experience
• Agency experience preferred
• Proficient level in Microsoft Office software

Benefits Include:

Flexible/hybrid work schedules

PTO, Personal Time, Volunteer Time Off and 8 observed holidays

Parental leave

The Olberding Brand Family is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds.