Director, Communications & Brand Management

Choose your next journey as Director, Communication & Brand Management with Millennium Trust Company and join a culture that empowers and where you can innovate. You will be celebrated, you will be challenged, and you can aspire to inspire. You are more than a colleague here; you are part of a COMMUNITY that goes ABOVE and BEYOND professionally and personally to make a difference.
Don't meet every single requirement? Here at Millennium, we believe there is NO "PERFECT" candidate and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren't met. Our goal is to build an authentic workplace by valuing diversity in our candidates. We work to ensure that our team reflects the diversity of the businesses and clients we serve. We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. If you enjoy a collaborative, fun environment that champions career development, Millennium Trust is the place for you! We look forward to receiving your application! Check out a video on our Company Culture! Millennium Trust Culture
HOW YOU WILL SOAR:
The Director, Communications & Brand will shape the communications strategy to promote, enhance, and protect the brand as well attract, engage and retain clients, customers and employees. This leader will drive the evolution of the brand strategy and communications via earned media, owned media, and superb client and customer communications.
Reporting to the CMO, this individual will be a key member of the Marketing leadership team. This leader will work closely with senior management, marketing, product, sales, client experience, strategy, talent management and other departments to ensure a consistent brand and voice across all channels. This person will lead a team responsible for marketing communications, public relations, visual brand identity, internal communications, and social media.

• Translate company strategies into actionable marketing communications plans
• Manage, build, and protect the company's reputation via proactive public relations for B2B and B2C audiences
• Be the brand champion, driving the brand creative strategy, voice, tone and overall image and to ensure a consistent brand identity
• Lead content marketing, including blog, social media, and customer communications
• Drive the development and implementation of an internal communications strategy and tools to reinforce the company's mission, values, and strategic goals
• Partner with human resources to build the employment brand and awareness of our company as an employer of choice
• Provide creative direction for print, digital, video, audio, visual and written elements of the brand
• Provide creative thought leadership on ways to gain attention of targeted audiences, partners, and the media
• Support digital, product, and various customer campaigns thorough creative execution
• Work closely with the marketing, product, legal, customer service, and other teams on technology projects
• Act as a key advisor to the business and leadership teams during issue management or crisis communications scenarios.
• Use research, data and analytics to inform brand strategy and data and to measure all communications
• Other duties as assigned

IF YOU HAVE SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, APPLY:

• Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree Preferred
• 15 years of applicable experience
• 5-7 years of leadership experience
• Proven track record of delivering best-in-class communications (traditional and emerging media)
• Ability to build, manage and influence stakeholder relationships inside and outside the company
• Experience in employee communications as well as crisis communications
• Critical thinker with exceptional writing, editing and presentation skills
• Experience selecting, directing to and managing an agency and freelancer relationships
• Exceptional project and people manager
• Ability to drive new work and draw insight from complex marketing data

MILLENNIUM TRUST COMPANY is a rapidly growing, leading financial services company offering specialized retirement and institutional services and recently acquired PayFlex, a consumer directed benefits provider, to create a personalized, holistic approach to financial wellness. To that end, we provide a diversified multi-product business with a holistic focus on financial wellness. Millennium Trust has experienced year-to-year double digit growth and prides itself on its strong, progressive culture.
We have been recognized for our tremendous growth on lists, such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, as well as our dedication to our customer's wellbeing receiving the 2021 Gallagher Best-In-Class Employer and the 2020 Greater Oak Brook Chamber of Commerce Exceptional Service Award.