Responsibilities

• Channel Strategy & Growth Planning
• Develop annual channel marketing strategies aligned to business objectives, portfolio priorities, and AOP plans.
• Identify growth opportunities across broadline, chain, regional, independent, non-commercial, C&U, cash & carry, eCommerce, and emerging channels.
• Translate customer, operator, consumer, and market insights into actionable channel plans, selling stories, and activation presentations.
• Partner with Sales leadership to prioritize investments and optimize growth opportunities.
• Customer Marketing & Channel Activation
• Lead customer-specific marketing programs, new product launch activations, seasonal promotions, distributor initiatives, and operator conversion programs.
• Build annual channel activation calendars aligned to innovation launches, seasonal selling opportunities, customer priorities, and commercial focus areas.
• Collaborate with key partners to grow brand visibility, merchandising, menu penetration, and portfolio growth.
• Represent Foodservice Brands in customer engagements, distributor meetings, sales planning, and partner discussions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Channel Marketing, Trade Marketing, Customer Marketing, Brand Marketing, Sales Enablement, Foodservice, Beverage, or CPG.
• Strong understanding of foodservice distribution, distributor marketing, operator needs, customer activation, selling tools, and channel merchandising.
• Experience partnering with Sales, brokers, distributors, customer marketing teams, and cross-functional marketing groups.
• Strong project management, communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to translate insights, data, performance reporting, customer feedback, and market trends into strategies and recommendations.
• Self-directed, proactive, accountable, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing shifting priorities and ambiguity.
• Availability to travel up to 30%.

Preferred

• Ideal Experience:
• Experience in foodservice, beverage, specialty coffee, restaurant, distributor, non-commercial, or eCommerce channels.
• Experience building customer presentations, sales toolkits, POS, merchandising programs, launch assets, and trade show materials.
• Familiarity with sales enablement platforms, content management tools, digital marketing, and marketing technology platforms.
• Experience supporting broadline distributors, chain operators, regional accounts, cash & carry, C&U, healthcare, and independent operator channels.

Benefits

• Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.