Associate Brand Manager - Tea Tree, Mitch

Santa Monica, CA (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end brand and campaign execution, translating strategy into on-brand product messaging, packaging, and GTM initiatives while collaborating across creative, trade, and lifecycle marketing to drive category growth.

  • Brand & Campaign Ownership: align brand strategy with objectives and manage go-to-market activations with cross-functional teams.
  • Asset & Content Delivery: oversee assets, packaging updates, and educational materials to ensure timely, on-brand execution.

Job Description

Own the end-to-end brand and campaign execution, translating strategy into on-brand product messaging, packaging, and GTM initiatives while collaborating across creative, trade, and lifecycle marketing to drive category growth.

  • Brand Strategy & Execution: Assist in developing and implementing brand strategies aligned with business objectives
  • Support annual brand planning, including positioning and key messaging
  • Participate in the generation of sales-driving ideas and concepts to support key categories and best sellers
  • Assist with key customer presentations, events, merchandising, gifting, product seeding, customer events.
  • Assist in preparing reports and tracking brand performance against goals
  • Product innovation: Support concepting and new program developments
  • Support with product claims development, as necessary. Including support in claims usage strategy, claims study design and execution (i.e. survey creation)
  • Support with product testing and evaluations
  • Campaign & Content Development: Collaborate with creative, digital and social teams to develop compelling campaigns
  • Manage timelines, briefs, and approvals to ensure high-quality, on-brand execution
  • 4+ years of brand marketing experience required
  • 1+ year of experience as an Associate Brand Manager required
  • High school diploma or GED required
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
  • Basic skills in AI technologies such as Co-Pilot and Canva
  • Experience with beauty product development and/or go-to-market
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing or directly related field preferred
  • Beauty industry experience strongly preferred
  • Experience in Project Management technologies such as Workfront
  • Experience with Salon brand or Specialty Brand (Scalp Care / Clean Beauty /Male centric)
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John Paul Mitchell Systems

John Paul Mitchell Systems® (JPMS) is a top manufacturer of high-quality hair care products and styling tools through several brands including Paul Mitchell®, Awapuhi Wild Ginger®, Tea Tree, Pro ToolsTM, Neuro®, MITCH® and MVRCK®, plus professional hair color from brands including The Demi and Color XG®. JPMS was founded in 1980 by co-founders Paul Mitchell and John Paul DeJoria with more than 300 employees globally and Michaeline DeJoria as CEO. We were the first professional hair care company to take a stand against animal testing, and we continue our strong commitment to giving back by supporting a wide range of philanthropic causes both domestically and internationally. JPMS products can be purchased at professional salons, Paul Mitchell® Schools and through authorized online retailers. Join our team!

Founded in 1980
USA
762 employees (162 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
181.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$22.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.5%
Direct
39.8%
Referral
4.7%
Social
2.3%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~762

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
60 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
5.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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