Lead Brand Manager
The Travel Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Costa Mesa • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $135,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Own end-to-end delivery of major brand marketing projects, from strategy through execution.
- Translate brand strategy into clear briefs and actionable plans across teams and agencies.
- Ensure all work is delivered on time, on budget, and aligned with Trafalgar’s brand standards.
- Brief, manage, and motivate external agency partners to deliver high-impact, on-brand work.
- Develop and oversee marketing partnerships that drive brand equity and business value.
- Create internal and external communications for Trafalgar’s sustainability initiatives.
- Support and help lead brand transformation initiatives, including rebrands and portfolio evolution.
- Act as a senior connector across marketing, sustainability, leadership, and regional teams.
Requirements
- Approximately 10 years of experience in brand or marketing roles, either client-side within marketing organizations or in account management at leading advertising agencies.
- Proven experience leading complex global marketing projects and managing agency partners.
- Background in brand transformation and/or process transition initiatives strongly preferred.
- Experience in sustainability communications highly desirable.
- Experience in partnership marketing strongly preferred.
- Experience with travel, hospitality, or lifestyle brands is highly desirable.
- Exceptional communication skills—written, verbal, and interpersonal—with high emotional intelligence.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and execution-focused; a true “doer.”
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
brand marketingproject managementagency managementsustainability communicationspartnership marketingbrand transformationportfolio evolutionstrategy executionbudget managementcommunication planning
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsemotional intelligenceorganizational skillsdetail-orientedproactiveexecution-focusedability to manage prioritiesstakeholder managementleadership