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Vice President of Brand Activation, New York
Sullivan is a communications strategy and design firm that helps blue-chip companies influence their customers at pivotal points in their buying decision, online, offline and through the front line. We work with some of the world’s leading companies to deliver brand and product positionings, messaging frameworks, visual and verbal identities, communications architecture, and print and digital communications.
Position Summary
The VP, Brand Activation is responsible for building long-term client relationships. This involves providing strategic thought leadership, creative insight, account planning, staffing, and oversight of all day-to-day activities. As a member of the Sullivan management team, the VP, Brand Activation is also expected to participate in setting the overall strategy and direction of the firm.
This position is ideally suited to the individual seeking fundamental and substantial real world impact on major marketing initiatives for leading companies. This is an outstanding opportunity for an accomplished marketer with strong thought leadership skills and entrepreneurial drive.
It provides:
- The ability to participate in the firm’s growth, based on tremendous success and momentum, and increase responsibility as quickly as one is able
- The platform provided by Sullivan’s track record and access to the firm’s proprietary methodologies
- The opportunity to join a firm that is challenging conventional wisdom and fundamentally changing how sales and marketing is performed across major corporations
- A role which combines account planning and account management responsibilities
Ideal Candidate Profile
- A senior marketing professional who brings a combination of deep industry and functional marketing knowledge around branding, communications, and/or digital strategy and implementation. He/she should be a “roll up the sleeves” person who wants to be in an entrepreneurial environment. Likely comes from the middle ranks of a top tier branding or interactive agency, blue chip advertising agency, or client organization.
- Solid strategic thinking and analytical skills to help set clients’ marketing agendas by assessing their situations, identifying and filling information gaps, evaluating implications and advising clients.
- Strong client development and relationship management skills with an ability to command the respect of the SVP/VP Marketing in Fortune 500 size clients while also working effectively with his/her deputies at the Director/Manager level.
- A true passion and appreciation for the power of creative and its ability to transform how a major company markets its products/services, and a solid understanding of and practical experience in communications development, from the strategic to the tactical including the ability to articulate creative direction and evaluate creative ideas as well as the quality of execution.
- Strong entrepreneurial drive as demonstrated by his/her track record as a successful developer of business, and an ability to operate in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and competitive marketplace with minimal structure.
- A team player with a solid understanding of the total business process and the need for teamwork internally and externally, and an ability to attract, develop and manage a team of strong marketers.
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
- An undergraduate degree in business, marketing, communications or the arts from a top tier school.
If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Jaclene Kirkwood at (212)888-2881 x227, or submit your resume to jobs@sullivannyc.com.
