Senior Manager Brand & Creative

The Senior Manager, Brand & Creative develops, evolves, and executes visual brand expression for CMB Regional Centers and NHK Capital Partners.

This role translates business and marketing strategy into creative concepts, campaigns, brand systems, and polished deliverables that strengthen each companys market position.

Both strategic and hands-on, the Senior Manager leads high-visibility creative initiatives, personally develops priority work, guides internal and external creative resources, establishes quality standards, and builds the processes required to deliver consistently excellent work.

The ideal candidate is an experienced brand creative with exceptional visual judgment, strong business acumen, leadership presence, and the ability to guide creative work from strategy through final delivery.

This person must be equally comfortable presenting recommendations to senior leadership, coaching creative professionals, developing flagship campaign assets, and ensuring that final work is accurate, polished, and delivered on time.

Essential Job Functions Brand Stewardship & Creative Leadership Develop, maintain, socialize, and enforce brand guidelines, visual systems, templates, and quality standards.

Serve as the creative lead for both CMB and NHK, ensuring each distinct brand is consistent, credible, compelling, strategically aligned, and appropriately evolved across audiences, channels, campaigns, events, and business needs.

Present and secure alignment on creative recommendations with marketing leadership, senior executives, and business stakeholders.

Stay current on relevant design, brand, marketing, digital, and communication trends and apply them thoughtfully.

Creative Development and Execution Partner with content and communications leadership to translate messaging and narrative strategy into cohesive visual storytelling.

Develop creative approaches for campaigns that support investor education, project marketing, company reputation, executive visibility, business development, and employee communications, including executive-, investor-, prospect-, and partner-facing materials.

Develop integrated campaign concepts and key visual systems that can be effectively extended across print, digital, email, social media, presentations, events, and other multimedia.

Provide creative direction for photography, video, motion graphics, digital experiences, and other multimedia storytelling.

Ensure deliverables demonstrate strong visual hierarchy, typography, image selection, information design, accuracy, and narrative flow.

Creative Operations Establish and manage scalable systems for creative intake, prioritization, production, review, approval, and delivery.

Maintain visibility into workload, deadlines, dependencies, and resource needs, and ensure all assets are tagged, searchable, regularly updated, and consistently socialized for cross-department use.

Team & Vendor Management Manage, mentor, and provide creative direction and feedback on delivera...