ABOUT THE ROLE: The Director, Brand Management & Marketing will serve as a steward of the Farmacy brand, helping to shape its long-term vision while driving integrated marketing strategies that accelerate growth, strengthen brand equity, and deepen consumer engagement. You'll lead the development of compelling brand campaigns, innovation launches, and go-to-market strategies while partnering cross-functionally with Product Development, Digital, Sales, Creative, Operations and Finance, to bring the brand to life across every consumer touchpoint. This is a highly collaborative leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and commercial performance, with a passion for building iconic brands and delivering meaningful business results. This role will report to the Sr. Director of Marketing, and have people manager responsibilities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Brand Management
- Serve as the cross-functional brand steward, ensuring consistency across all consumer touchpoints, including Digital, Consumer, Sales, Operations, Finance and Product Development.
- Support Sr. Director in development of long-term & short-term brand strategies to accelerate Farmacy's growth and exceed our objectives. Work closely with cross-functional partners to successfully execute these strategies
- Support development of marketing calendar and program classifications (Budget Planning)
- Continuously evaluate brand health through consumer insights, market trends, competitive activity, and business performance to identify growth opportunities and potential risks.
- Develop strategic recommendations to strengthen brand equity, increase consumer engagement, and accelerate market share growth.
- Identify opportunities to improve cross-functional ways of working, driving operational excellence across the end-to-end marketing process.
- Influence cross-functional teams to ensure alignment against brand priorities, timelines, and business goals.
Brand Storytelling - 360 Campaign & Activation Management
- Lead and oversee the development of brand, franchise & product-level campaign concepts, supporting key business objectives
- Lead and oversee the development of all campaign briefs - owning the cross-functional relationships and communication
- Lead and oversee the development of strategic Go-To-Market drivers within the context
- Lead and oversee the end to end go-to-market campaign process, planning & communication
- Oversee recaps & launch post-mortems
- Work with Copywriters to reflect the brand voice
End to End Strategic Product Strategy & Assortment Management - NPD & Existing Portfolio
- Manage innovative product development + pipeline strategy in support of Farmacy's strategic direction and priorities
- Oversee the development of key new product development building blocks (e.g. insights, SOP)
- Lead and oversee new product messaging, claims development + educational support
- Identify white space opportunities
Retailer + Promotional Support
- Develop and execute detailed calendar of product marketing and promotional programs, including sampling plan to drive recruitment
- Partner closely with Sales and key retail partners to develop global strategies that support the core business + accelerate new product launches
- Support promotional marketing activities (kits & sets, merchandise strategy)
Day-to-Day Business Management
- Prepare and support presentations for management meetings
- Own budget management for key marketing spend buckets
- Conduct competitive analysis to learn from industry trends in sales, new product development, competitive activations
- Leverage real-time campaign KPIs to inform decisions and drive strategic, efficient spend investments for maximum ROI
- Manage and develop your direct report(s), strategically delegating assignments, managing workload, and supporting career growth and development
Requirements- 7+ years of progressive brand management and/or brand marketing experience, ideally within beauty, skincare, CPG, or a consumer-led brand.
- Proven experience developing brand strategy and integrated 3606 marketing plans that drive brand equity, consumer engagement, and commercial growth.
- Experience leading new product development, innovation, and go-to-market strategies, from consumer insights and positioning through launch and optimization.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience managing budgets and leveraging consumer, sales, and campaign data to drive business decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams across Creative, Digital, Sales, Product Development, Operations, and Finance.
- Experience working within the prestige beauty and retail landscape, including Sephora and/or Ulta, strongly preferred.
- Strong people leadership skills, with experience coaching and developing direct reports.
- Strategic, creative, and solutions-oriented thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and can effectively manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Passion for beauty, skincare, consumer trends, and building differentiated brands.
- Able to reliably commute to the NYC office a minimum of two days per week + ad hoc as needed.
- Permanently authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship
Benefits- 15 days PTO + 5 sick/personal days per year
- 16 annual Company holidays
- Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance
- Life insurance ($25,000 policy, free to employees)
- Commuter benefits (Transit + Parking FSA)
- Health care FSA
- Dependent care FSA
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, with up to 4.0% company match with no vesting period (after 6 month eligibility waiting period)
- 16-weeks 100% paid parental leave for birth mothers and adoptive parents plus 8 weeks unpaid, 8-weeks 100% paid parental leave for all other parents
- $40/month phone stipend
- Adoption & Surrogacy Support, $10,000/event reimbursement with $40,000 lifetime cap
- Quarterly Gratis Product Stipend
- Monthly Exercise/Gym Reimbursement
