About the Role
The Senior Transformation & Brand Engagement Manager EMEA is responsible for defining and transforming the brand engagement model across Europe, MENA, and ANZ. This role establishes a future-fit, data-driven, and scalable approach to how Clorox brands connect with consumers across the full funnel, setting the enterprise vision and strategic direction for brand engagement.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the long-term vision and strategic direction for brand engagement across EMEA aligned to business growth priorities.
- Translate brand and portfolio strategies into integrated, full-funnel engagement approaches that drive measurable commercial outcomes.
- Shape how Clorox brands connect with consumers across channels, platforms, and moments, ensuring a cohesive and differentiated approach.
- Act as an advisor to regional leadership on marketing effectiveness and growth opportunities.
- Lead the evolution and transformation of brand engagement capabilities, embedding modern, data-led, and consumer-centric approaches.
- Identify and implement step-change improvements in how engagement is planned, executed, and optimised across markets.
- Drive adoption of emerging capabilities like advanced data utilisation, Social First, GEO, AI content ecosystems among others to future-proof the organisation.
- Champion a test-and-learn culture, accelerating innovation and continuous improvement across markets.
- Design and own the end-to-end brand engagement operating model, clearly defining roles, responsibilities, and ways of working across regional and market teams.
- Establish scalable frameworks, playbooks, and governance structures that enable consistent and high-quality execution across all markets.
- Own the agency ecosystem design, including partner selection, role definition, and ways of working to maximise effectiveness and efficiency.
- Ensure clear separation and alignment between regional strategy, frameworks, governance and market execution, optimisation, delivery.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Brand Engagement organisation, including direct management of Brand Engagement Leads.
- Drive capability building across markets, elevating skills in areas such as communication strategy, channel planning, and performance optimisation.
- Establish a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous development within the function.
- Act as a coach and mentor, strengthening the pipeline of future marketing leaders.
- Own the measurement framework for brand engagement effectiveness, ensuring clear linkage between marketing activity and business outcomes.
- Drive improvements in ROI, efficiency, and effectiveness across channels and markets.
- Lead the development of a cross-market learning agenda, ensuring insights are captured, scaled, and translated into impact.
- Elevate performance conversations from metrics reporting to business storytelling, influencing decision-making at senior levels.
- Define and lead the strategic agency model across the region, ensuring alignment to brand needs and organisational priorities.
- Set clear expectations for agency performance, output quality, and innovation, holding partners accountable to high standards.
- Build strong, strategic partnerships with agency leadership, while enabling Brand Engagement Leads to manage day-to-day execution.
- Continuously evaluate and evolve the agency ecosystem to ensure best-in-class capability and value delivery.
- Act as a key connector across Brand, Digital, Ecommerce, and Commercial teams, ensuring brand engagement is fully integrated into broader business plans.
- Influence senior stakeholders across the organisation, shaping marketing investment decisions and priorities.
- Lead alignment across multiple markets, ensuring consistency of approach while enabling local relevance.
- Represent Brand Engagement in strategic planning cycles and leadership forums.
- Bring in external best practices, trends, and innovations, ensuring Clorox remains at the forefront of brand engagement.
- Establish the organisation as a leader in modern, full-funnel marketing approaches.
- Continuously benchmark performance, capability, and output against industry leaders.
- Ensure Brand Engagement Leads are equipped to deliver best-in-class execution through clear strategic direction, actionable frameworks, and defined governance and quality standards.
- Maintain a strong feedback loop between execution and strategy, ensuring continuous refinement of frameworks.
- Act as the ultimate quality and consistency guardian across all engagement outputs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Transformation & Brand Engagement development.
- 5+ years with Tier 1 media or creative agency.
- Proven track record of good consumer understanding, driving transformation and capability building, brand engagement strategy development and brand equity management within a leading consumer goods organisation.
- Multiregional experience required.
- Flexible to work across different time-zones.
- Preferred experience on both client and agency side.
- Versed on omnichannel media, especially digital marketing.
- Experienced in successfully developing and motivating a high-performance team.
Skills
- Drives Transformation
- Strategic Mindset & Thought Leadership
- Drives Results
- Business Insight & managing complexity
- Consumer Focus
- Cultivates Innovation
- Drives Engagement & Values Differences
- Team player with ability to influence up and across organization
- Takes accountability for personal development
- Able to contribute to a purpose-driven culture that embraces IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, and allyship)
- Communicates effectively
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that reflect a point of view
Location
- EMEA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous 401(k) program in the US and similar programs in international
- Health benefits and programs that support both your physical and mental well-being
- Flexible work environment, depending on your role
- Meaningful opportunities to keep learning and growing
- Half-day Fridays, depending on your location
About the Company
- Clorox is the place that’s committed to growth – for our people and our brands.
- Guided by our purpose and values, and with people at the center of everything we do, we believe every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates.
- Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally.
- We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us.
- That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive.
