Brand Communications & Storytelling Manager
About the role
About the Role
Ampersand Brands is seeking a Brand Communications & Storytelling Manager to help shape and bring to life the stories behind Lolli & Pops and Hammond’s Candies. Reporting to the Director of Marketing & Partnerships, this role is a key partner in developing brand narratives, building integrated marketing campaigns, and ensuring a consistent brand experience across every customer touchpoint. We're looking for a strategic storyteller who can transform ideas into compelling campaigns, guide creative development, and help bring our brands to life across retail, digital, social, and customer experience channels.
Key Responsibilities
Partner closely with the Director of Marketing & Partnerships to shape brand strategy, messaging, campaign concepts, and storytelling initiatives. Lead storytelling for seasonal campaigns, product launches, and key marketing initiatives. Develop creative briefs, messaging frameworks, and campaign toolkits. Partner with the Graphic Designer to bring campaigns and marketing materials to life. Collaborate with Social Media and Guest Services to uncover customer insights and storytelling opportunities. Ensure consistency in brand voice and messaging across all channels. Manage marketing projects from concept through execution.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in brand marketing, communications, content strategy, or a related field. Exceptional writing, storytelling, and communication skills. Experience developing integrated marketing campaigns and working with creative teams. Strong project management skills and attention to detail. Passion for consumer brands, retail, gifting, food, or lifestyle categories.
Success Looks Like
You help transform business goals into memorable brand experiences, ensuring every campaign, product launch, and customer interaction strengthens the connection between our brands and our customers.
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About Lolli & Pops
We believe candy is so much more than candy.
It has the power to say thank you, I love you, I celebrate you. It can even express what’s impossible to say… At its core, candy is a delicious treat. At its heart, candy Spreads Joy and Bits of Optimism
That joy starts with the process of creation. Our thoughtfully curated gifts and indulgences are unique, delicious, unmatched in quality, and sourced from around the globe. Walking into one of our stores or shopping online is inviting and exciting, filled with high-quality products and eye-popping choice designed to inspire our guests and offer endless possibilities.
When a client buys a box of truffles or fills a bag or curates a box, they transform into a Dreamer, a Creator, a Giver. We’re here to empower their process of creation so they can spread versions of joy in their own unique way. We also want our customers to embrace the freedom to indulge in a bit of self-care, as it’s important to remember to be a Giver to ourselves.
Our mission is to create experiences that wow our guests by offering bits of optimism along the way. Our candies and chocolates and treats come with positive affirmations, encouraging bits of bravery, strength, hope, kindness, and other powerful words we need to hear each day. Generosity is essential to who we are, and we’re committed to delivering generous gestures and good surprises to each and every one of our clients, one ooey gooey bit at a time.
We’re suckers for our clients, and we’ll bend over backwards, sideways and upside down to help make their day better than it was before. We want to help our guests say thanks, express their love, celebrate life, and create memories for the day, or for a lifetime.
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Brand Communications & Storytelling Manager
About the role
About the Role
Ampersand Brands is seeking a Brand Communications & Storytelling Manager to help shape and bring to life the stories behind Lolli & Pops and Hammond’s Candies. Reporting to the Director of Marketing & Partnerships, this role is a key partner in developing brand narratives, building integrated marketing campaigns, and ensuring a consistent brand experience across every customer touchpoint. We're looking for a strategic storyteller who can transform ideas into compelling campaigns, guide creative development, and help bring our brands to life across retail, digital, social, and customer experience channels.
Key Responsibilities
Partner closely with the Director of Marketing & Partnerships to shape brand strategy, messaging, campaign concepts, and storytelling initiatives. Lead storytelling for seasonal campaigns, product launches, and key marketing initiatives. Develop creative briefs, messaging frameworks, and campaign toolkits. Partner with the Graphic Designer to bring campaigns and marketing materials to life. Collaborate with Social Media and Guest Services to uncover customer insights and storytelling opportunities. Ensure consistency in brand voice and messaging across all channels. Manage marketing projects from concept through execution.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in brand marketing, communications, content strategy, or a related field. Exceptional writing, storytelling, and communication skills. Experience developing integrated marketing campaigns and working with creative teams. Strong project management skills and attention to detail. Passion for consumer brands, retail, gifting, food, or lifestyle categories.
Success Looks Like
You help transform business goals into memorable brand experiences, ensuring every campaign, product launch, and customer interaction strengthens the connection between our brands and our customers.
Not the right fit? Search for Brand Communications & Storytelling Manager jobs in Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
About Lolli & Pops
We believe candy is so much more than candy.
It has the power to say thank you, I love you, I celebrate you. It can even express what’s impossible to say… At its core, candy is a delicious treat. At its heart, candy Spreads Joy and Bits of Optimism
That joy starts with the process of creation. Our thoughtfully curated gifts and indulgences are unique, delicious, unmatched in quality, and sourced from around the globe. Walking into one of our stores or shopping online is inviting and exciting, filled with high-quality products and eye-popping choice designed to inspire our guests and offer endless possibilities.
When a client buys a box of truffles or fills a bag or curates a box, they transform into a Dreamer, a Creator, a Giver. We’re here to empower their process of creation so they can spread versions of joy in their own unique way. We also want our customers to embrace the freedom to indulge in a bit of self-care, as it’s important to remember to be a Giver to ourselves.
Our mission is to create experiences that wow our guests by offering bits of optimism along the way. Our candies and chocolates and treats come with positive affirmations, encouraging bits of bravery, strength, hope, kindness, and other powerful words we need to hear each day. Generosity is essential to who we are, and we’re committed to delivering generous gestures and good surprises to each and every one of our clients, one ooey gooey bit at a time.
We’re suckers for our clients, and we’ll bend over backwards, sideways and upside down to help make their day better than it was before. We want to help our guests say thanks, express their love, celebrate life, and create memories for the day, or for a lifetime.