Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.
Vice President, Marketing Strategist
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Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.
Role Summary
The Vice President, Marketing Strategist is a senior advisor responsible for shaping marketing strategy for MUFG Global Corporate & Investment Banking and Markets and other lines of business, as needed. Approximately 80% of the role focuses on translating business priorities into market insights, audience strategies, value propositions, integrated plans, and measurable growth opportunities. Success requires proven executive presence, sound judgment, and the ability to deliver evidence-based recommendations that influence heads of lines of business and the executive team. The role identifies high-impact marketing opportunities, recommends priorities and investments, builds alignment, and guides execution through internal teams and agencies.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted marketing strategy advisor to heads of lines of business and the executive team, translating business priorities, client needs, and growth objectives into focused strategies and plans.
- Develop annual and multi-year strategies for priority businesses, sectors, products, and client segments, including objectives, audiences, positioning, channels, investment requirements, and success measures.
- Use market, client, competitive, and performance insights, as well as your own creativity, to identify opportunities and guide strategic decisions.
- Define differentiated value propositions, narratives, and messaging that communicate MUFG’s relevance to priority audiences.
- Build integrated go-to-market plans across digital, content, email, events, sponsorships, thought leadership, paid media, and banker enablement.
- Present insight-led recommendations on priorities, trade-offs, and investments; influence decisions and build senior-level alignment.
- Direct internal specialists and agencies through clear strategic briefs, ensuring execution aligns with business objectives, audience insights, brand standards, and approved strategy.
- Establish measurement frameworks, assess performance, and recommend optimization and future investment.
- Strengthen marketing planning, prioritization, intake, and governance to focus resources on high-impact opportunities.
- Partner with Marketing Operations, Brand, Events, Communications, Compliance, and Legal to ensure strategies are executable, consistent, and compliant.
- Provide limited communications support when directly connected to an approved marketing initiative.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of B2B marketing experience spanning strategy, planning, and senior business advisory. Financial services, corporate banking, or investment banking experience is strongly preferred; experience with technology, mid-sized companies, or start-ups would be beneficial.
- Proven ability to connect business priorities, client needs, and market opportunities to measurable marketing outcomes through segmentation, positioning, value propositions, and integrated go-to-market plans.
- Strategic-consulting and creative mindset, with the ability to structure complex problems, synthesize market and performance insights, and translate strategy into clear recommendations, briefs, roadmaps, and execution plans. Consulting experience would be beneficial.
- Compelling executive presence and credibility, with the ability to advise senior leaders, articulate a clear point of view, challenge constructively, and influence without direct authority.
- Strong storytelling and communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex financial and business topics for varied audiences.
- Strong judgment, ownership, and stakeholder management, with the ability to balance competing priorities, maintain strategic focus, and deliver effectively in a matrixed organization.
Education
- Bachelor's degree or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
The typical base pay range for this role is between $124K - $170K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonuses and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.
MUFG Benefits Summary
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
