Brand Strategist
What is a Brand Strategist?
Similar Job Titles:
Brand Manager, Product Line Manager, Product Strategy Manager, Product Line Leader
The purpose of a Brand Strategist develops position recommendations, guides market research analysis and defines brand elements and tone. Strategists also work in conjunction with a Brand Manager to ensure the organization’s products and services, mission, values, culture, and brand image are consistently represented and communicated to all audiences.
In today’s business culture, many organizations consider every employee a “Brand Strategist” They encourage each employee to keep brand compliance top of mind. But the full responsibility for promoting and protecting the brand falls on the person with the job title of Brand Strategist.
What does a Brand Strategist do, typically?
Establishes brand standards
These specialists define and communicate the brand standards and verify compliance across all channels.
Knows the market
A Brand Strategist observes and analyzes market trends and stays clued into competitors.
Strengthens brand Awareness
The Brand Strategist helps build, strengthen, and amplify an organization’s brand awareness to all audiences, including customers, employees, stockholders, vendors, and communities.
Ensures consistency in message across all channels
A Brand Strategist (working with cross-functional teams) establishes and articulates the organization’s brand promise, and ensures that all communications consistently reflect that promise.
A Brand Strategist is not:
A Marketing Strategist
Brand Strategists focus on the strategies that will drive consumer behavior. Marketing strategists focus on activating that behavior.
A Product Manager
Brand Strategists focus on analyzing market trends and consumer needs. Product managers build products and services that will respond to those trends and needs.
Important metrics for a Brand Strategist
Brand Strategists set business performance goals or Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to measure:
- brand perception
- interactions
- purchase intent
- top of mind (TOM), spontaneous, and prompted brand awareness
- marketing ROI
- competition
Brand Strategist Salary
US Based, employer-reported data for a Brand Strategist:
- 25th Percentile $94.7K
- Average $110.5K
- 75th Percentile $126.2K
Brand Strategist Job Description
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As a Brand Strategist at <Company XXX>, you’ll get to showcase your expertise in brand development, use your strategic and creative skills to create, refine, enhance, and drive our brand awareness, and protect the integrity of our brand. More specifically, you’ll get to:
- work with leadership to establish brand guidelines, metrics, and standards
- build, strengthen, and amplify our company’s brand awareness with all audiences, including consumers of our products and services, employees, stockholders, vendors, and communities
- work with cross-functional teams to establish and articulate our brand promise, and ensure that all products, services, and communications consistently reflect that promise
- ensure compliance with brand standards across all media for our proprietary and trademarked products and designs
- design and monitor business performance goals to drive brand awareness
- observe and analyze market and competitor trends
- monitor the quality and integrity of our products and services, and respond as needed to ensure brand alignment
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