Senior Brand Marketing Manager
The Team: Marketing and Communications creates integrated communications and campaigns that aim to make the Morningstar brand tribal. Consisting of marketing managers, designers, writers, corporate communications professionals, digital strategists, behavioral scientists, and more, this collaborative team serves our marketing needs across our business. We are data-driven experimenters who work to deliver the right messages to the right people at the right time. We also drive demand by developing go-to-market strategies for Morningstar products. The team works globally to maintain a consistent brand experience everywhere Morningstar serves investors.
The Role: Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success. We accomplish this by offering independent research and great products to the financial community. We are looking for an exceptional marketing leader to drive our research innovation marketing initiatives, to increase client demand, and accelerate contribution to pipeline. As an embedded member of the research and brands team, the initial focus for this role is ESG research and ratings innovation, as well as, the Research brand narrative.
You will be deeply embedded within the research process, from innovation and conceptualization to positioning and go-to-market. You'll be part of a team supporting the orchestration of elegant client engagements, working to bring to life a comprehensive marketing experience that resonates with professional investors. These efforts will require strong collaboration across different teams and disciplines, such as research operations, brand strategy, content marketing, business development, demand generation, and product marketing.
This role reports to the Director of Portfolio Marketing.
Responsibilities
Marketing Strategy and Content Creation: Develop the cross-firm marketing strategy for Morningstar's Research group. Formalize a marketing playbook for research that supports mission and corporate positioning goals and work closely with a design partner to bring key strategic concepts to life. Build elegant, highly-consumable content across all channels with a particular focus on foundational messaging, web, and internal enablement. Measure, analyze, and report on the success of all programs with key stakeholders and identify opportunities to continuously improve our outcomes relative to goals.
Sales Enablement & Training: Tell a compelling story through the development of cross-firm marketing messages and materials to enable our Sales and Success teams. Partner with product marketing and demand generation teams on lower funnel tactics that highlight research as a differentiator. Mentor the sales team on how to generate new opportunities with our research.
Corporate Communications: Partner with the communications team to have a pulse on the public and media to anticipate opportunities for our Research Analysts. Prepare the communications and research teams for success on traditional and social media platforms.
Project Management, Campaign Planning & Execution: Foster through-funnel collaboration across marketing teams, with a strong emphasis on driving collaboration with our social media team for established and new social channels. Build and manage cross-functional research-related launches.
Qualifications
- 5-7 years of industry marketing experience.
- Proven track record developing and implementing multi-channel marketing programs - familiarity with multiple social channels like LinkedIn, Instagram, and Tiktok, a plus.
- Knowledge of the financial services industries/segments, traditional and modern marketing ecosystem, industry event landscape and regulatory/legal trends.
- Must be data-driven and understand how to translate marketing metrics into opportunities for action.
- Deep appreciation for the role of creative and design in marketing effectiveness.
- Significant experience working with dynamic teams and internal stakeholder groups.
- Bachelor's degree; MBA or other advanced degree/accreditation is strongly preferred.
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