Supervisor, Brand Marketing

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Date: Feb 4, 2026

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

Company Description: 

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. As the global leader in the foodservice industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us. 

From drive-thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world. 

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create a positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community, and family. From the support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry, and the planet. We also offer outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance, and flexible work arrangements. 

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. We are interested in people who enhance our company culture: Does this role interest you? We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement!

Department Overview

About the Role 

We’re seeking a highly organized, strategic, and collaborative Supervisor to join the group responsible for Brand, Content & Culture. In this position, you will assist the Sr. Manager of Value Integration with all preparation and planning implementation related to FAP. You will also help ensure portfolio consistency by supporting production budget forecasting, monitoring and actualization. Additionally, you will serve as a primary contact for Marketing Operations to maintain smooth and efficient workstreams. 

This role combines creative marketing and content strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and focused project management. It suits someone who enjoys connecting dots, coordinating complexity, and supporting teams to work more efficiently. 

Supervisor, Brand Content & Culture 

Location: Chicago, IL   
Team: US Marketing – Brand, Content & Culture (BCC)  
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Value Integration 

 

Duties

FAP Support & Execution 

  • Collaborate closely with the Sr. Manager to guide preparation, planning, and delivery of FAP workstreams, ensuring solid cross-functional coordination and readiness. 

  • Coordinate inputs, timelines, and deliverables needed to support the FAP planning calendar. 

Campaign Portfolio Management & Stewardship 

  • Maintain visibility across portfolio campaigns and workstreams, ensuring strategic alignment, consistency, and seamless integration across channels. 

  • Track progress of each initiative, monitor risks, highlight gaps, and support decision-making for prioritization and sequencing. 

  • Act as the day-to-day bridge to Marketing Operations, ensuring smooth coordination across systems, processes, and workflows. 

  • Prepare materials, agendas, and follow-ups for cross-functional meetings and leadership touchpoints.

  • Uphold organized project oversight and detailed documentation to ensure teams stay coordinated and on track. 

Team Culture & Leadership Support 

  • Help strengthen BCC’s culture of collaboration, transparency, and operational excellence

  • Model a proactive approach that elevates clarity and drives progress. 

Qualifications

Qualifications 

  • 3–5 years of experience in marketing, coordinated communications, project/account management, campaign operations, or a similar role. 

  • Experience supporting campaign management or portfolio stewardship, preferably within a fast-paced marketing environment. 

  • Strong project management skills — the ability to coordinate complex workstreams, manage timelines, and keep cross-functional teams aligned. 

  • Experience in budget forecasting, monitoring, and actualization, or collaborating closely with Marketing Ops/Finance teams. 

  • Strong ability to convey information clearly and to positively impact colleagues across teams. 

  • Proven ability to synthesize data and input into actionable steps. 

  • Comfort navigating ambiguity while maintaining composure — able to anticipate needs and proactively solve problems. 

  • Growth mindset with strong relationship-building skills and a collaborative working style. 

What You will Bring 

  • A natural ability to build clarity from complexity — connecting dots across teams, timelines, budgets, and priorities. 

  • A proactive, operationally minded approach that elevates the team’s ability to plan, forecast, and complete initiatives. 

  • Strong stewardship instincts: you keep teams aligned, surface risks early, and help ensure work is consistent, coordinated, and on strategy. 

  • A perspective centered on working well with others and passion for enabling great work across BCC, Marketing Ops, and broader US Marketing. 

  • Curiosity, adaptability, and dedication to excellence. 

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: No

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range range -$93,208.00 - $116,510.00 per year 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment. 

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.


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