Senior Manager, Environmental Marketing - Brand Manager

Cox Enterprises is hiring a Senior Manager, Environmental Marketing - Brand Manager. The Senior Manager, Environmental Marketing - Brand Manager leads brand and marketing management for Cox's Environmental Advocacy platform, ensuring advocacy priorities are expressed consistently, credibly, and effectively across campaigns, content, partnerships, and a structured pro bono conservation marketing program. This role owns Environmental Advocacy brand and marketing management and the pro bono conservation program, executing strategy set by senior leadership and enabling initiatives that would not otherwise exist without Cox's long-term conservation vision.
Key Responsibilities
Environmental Advocacy & Marketing Management• Lead brand and marketing management for Environmental Advocacy, including messaging frameworks, brand guidelines, and activation toolkits.• Ensure consistent and high-quality brand expression across advocacy campaigns, content, partnerships, and external engagements.• Partner with Impact Campaign leadership to operationalize brand and marketing elements of advocacy initiatives.• Coordinate with Communications, internal and external agencies, and vendors to deliver brand-aligned marketing programs.• Work with the in-house creative production team as a strategic "client" to commission assets, provide clear briefs, and ensure outputs align to brand strategy and enterprise standards.• Coordinate closely with Corporate Communications to ensure external messaging aligns with broader reputation and issues management guidelines.• Serve as day-to-day brand steward for Environmental Advocacy and Cox Outdoors as Cox's primary environmental advocacy and conservation brand platform.• Support activation of Cox Outdoors purpose across portfolio brands in ways that align with enterprise advocacy priorities while respecting brand autonomy.
Pro Bono Conservation Program• Lead the end-to-end structured pro bono conservation marketing program supporting mission-aligned NGOs.• Ensure pro bono projects strengthen NGO readiness for advocacy, storytelling, and campaign activation in support of enterprise environmental priorities.• Manage NGO intake, evaluation, scoping, and prioritization in partnership with advocacy and conservation leadership.• Oversee delivery of pro bono brand and marketing projects, coordinating internal teams and external partners.• Ensure pro bono efforts strengthen NGO capacity and support broader advocacy and conservation goals.• Track and report outcomes related to NGO capacity-building and program effectiveness. Develop standardized pro bono playbooks, templates, and workflows to enable scalable, repeatable delivery.• Build and manage relationships with participating NGOs and ensure projects support enterprise advocacy priorities and measurable conservation outcomes
Cross-Functional Collaboration• Collaborate with Conservation and Content teams to ensure brand and marketing efforts reinforce conservation programs and storytelling.• Serve as a key connector between Environmental Advocacy, creative partners, and NGOs.
Qualifications• Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of experience in brand management, marketing leadership, or integrated agency roles. A candidate may also have a Master's Degree with 6+ years of experience or a Ph.D. with 3+ years. A non-degreed candidate will have 12+ years of relevant experience.• Demonstrated experience stewarding brands in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.• Strong project leadership, creative judgment, and partnership skills.• Experience supporting mission-driven or conservation-focused organizations preferred.• Strong ability to influence without direct authority, drive accountability and must have a demonstrated commitment to follow-through.
Preferred• Experience managing pro bono, partnership marketing, or NGO collaboration programs• Experience building scalable brand systems (toolkits, templates, guidelines, governance mechanisms).
USD 122,600.00 - 204,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $122,600.00 - $204,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.