Manager, Brand Governance

Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities—for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world’s most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you’ll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what’s next. You’ll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business—creating value in the world around us.

Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation.

The Manager, Corporate Brand Governance plays a central role in Belden’s ongoing brand transformation, helping evolve our brand architecture, portfolio strategy, and governance model as the business scales, acquires and innovates. This role ensures the strategic, consistent and correct application of Belden’s brand identity across all internal and external touchpoints. The position plays a critical role in protecting brand integrity, managing trademarks, and enabling brand alignment across products, solutions and regions. Our preference is a candidate located in Indianapolis, IN but we're open to remotely based candidates.

You’ll make a difference in the following ways:

Brand governance and stewardship

• Serve as the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for brand governance, standards and brand-related inquiries.
• Develop, maintain and evolve brand guidelines, frameworks, and standards; review and approve branded messaging and visual assets.

• Support and participate in Belden’s brand transformation initiatives, including planning and implementation.
• Contribute to the evolution of brand architecture with connected brands and portfolio alignment across products and solutions.
• Collaborate with business and marketing partners on product and solution launches, serving as the brand expert for naming, branding and trademark considerations.

• Manage Belden’s trademark portfolio, including applications, renewals, compliance and communication.
• Partner with Legal to monitor and address trademark infringements and protect Belden’s intellectual property and brand equity.
• Mitigate brand and reputational risk through proactive monitoring of online and offline brand usage.

• Manage and collaborate with external agencies to own brand research.
• Translate brand research and performance insights into actionable guidance for brand standards, messaging frameworks, and brand investment priorities
• Develop and support strategic brand-building, multi-channel marketing campaigns.

• Partner with the Digital Transformation team to develop and manage a cohesive web domain strategy for current and future Belden domains.

• Educate and train employees, partners, and agencies on proper brand usage and governance practices.
• Develop tools and resources that enable efficient, compliant brand execution across the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications or a related field.
• 5+ years of marketing experience with a strong focus on brand management.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and governing brand systems in a complex, B2B and global environment.
• Proven ability to balance brand consistency with business needs and speed to market.
• Strong project management, organizational and prioritization skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience gathering, analyzing and translating customer insights into actionable strategies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience managing agencies and external vendors.

• Experience working with trademark and intellectual property considerations; familiarity with IP law and regulations or a strong willingness to learn.
• Experience supporting brand integration in mergers and acquisitions.

Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!

Let’s Create Possibilities Together.

Join a global community shaping the future of intelligent connectivity. At Belden, you’ll help push the boundaries of technology and write the next chapter of innovation, creating possibilities for your career, your future, and the world around you.

These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.