Director-Brand Sponsorships

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Base pay range

$140,400.00/yr - $239,100.00/yr

Want a meaningful career where you can make a difference? Edward Jones sounds perfect for you.

Collaboration. Autonomy. Opportunity. Words our headquarters associates use when talking about working at Edward Jones. Words that describe what it's like being part of a firm where everyone is aligned toward a singular focus: serving the client. And everyone is working to make the firm better together - as they grow as individuals. If these words resonate with you, we should talk.

Job Overview

The Director of Brand Sponsorships + Events is a visionary leader responsible for shaping Edward Jones' presence in culture through strategic partnerships and immersive brand experiences. They are responsible for developing and managing a disciplined portfolio of partnerships and events - from national tentpoles to community programs - selected for audience fit and cultural relevance. They design activations that lift brand equity and consideration, deepen advisor engagement, and create spaces where clients, prospects, and communities connect with Edward Jones in meaningful ways.

What You'll Do...

• Curate Strategic Partnerships: Identify and secure sponsorships and event opportunities that align with brand values, audience priorities, and cultural relevance.
• Design Immersive Experiences: Develop high-impact activations that bring the brand to life and create memorable, meaningful connections. This includes leveraging paid, earned, social and owned channels to bring partnerships to life in ways that are relevant and valuable to financial advisors and their clients.
• Champion Cultural Relevance: Continuously monitor trends and cultural shifts to keep sponsorships and events timely, inclusive, and influential.
• Drive Brand Presence: Ensure Edward Jones shows up in the right cultural moments and markets to maximize visibility and influence with programs that strengthen brand perception, increase consideration, and reinforce trust.
• Deepen Advisor Engagement: Create experiences that energize and empower advisors as brand ambassadors. Design and develop scalable and customizable platforms, tools, and SOPs that empower over 20k+ financial advisors to leverage national sponsorships in their local markets.
• Measure Impact: Define KPIs and track performance to demonstrate ROI and optimize future sponsorship and event strategies.
• Foster Community Connection: Build spaces where clients, prospects, and communities engage authentically with the brand.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with marketing, communications, and field teams to ensure alignment and integration across channels.
• Manage third-party agencies and partners: Identify, onboard and lead third-party agencies to develop sponsorship and events strategies and activate to drive brand and business growth.

Benefits

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Integrated Communications, Business, or a related field; Master's degree or MBA is a plus.
• 15+ years of experience in brand strategy, marketing, insights, creative, and digital, with a strong background in brand leadership in a collaborative team setting.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing successful integrated marketing strategies.
• Strong emotional intelligence/maturity and senior level executive presence.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Intellectually curious.
• Results-oriented leader with ability to develop and communicate big-picture vision and strategy, and simultaneously deliver solutions through practical, disciplined execution.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, overseeing multiple active projects of varying scopes, concurrently
• Willingness to travel and represent Edward Jones at key events and industry forums
• Candidates that live within in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.

About Us

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.