Associate Brand Manager

Sutter County, CA (On-site)

$57K/yr – $87K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support development and execution of annual Sunsweet brand, product, and commercial marketing plans for the domestic business.
  • Manage assigned marketing projects and deliverables, including campaign coordination, promotion execution, packaging updates, product support, sales materials, and channel-specific initiatives for Sunsweet’s branded portfolio.
  • Analyze consumer, shopper, category, customer, sales, and competitive information to identify trends, report performance, and support recommendations.
  • Coordinate marketing programs across retail, e-commerce, club, grocery, mass, and other relevant channels to ensure alignment with Sunsweet brand strategy, customer priorities, and commercial objectives.
  • Track brand performance, promotion results, category trends, competitive activity, budget status, and key business metrics; prepare timely reports and summaries for internal stakeholders.
  • Manage project timelines, routing, approvals, budgets, meeting follow-ups, and cross-functional communication to ensure work is completed accurately and on schedule.
  • Partner with sales, category management, finance, operations, R&D, supply chain, creative partners, and external agencies to support execution of Sunsweet marketing, packaging, innovation, and commercialization initiatives.
  • Assist with product commercialization, renovation, innovation support, trade marketing inputs, customer presentations, retailer support materials, and post-program analysis.
  • Maintain accurate marketing calendars, project trackers, budget records, promotional documentation, and post-program learnings.
  • Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, execution discipline, and cross-functional ways of working.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience supporting marketing execution, project tracking, reporting, promotions, or channel initiatives.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to review data, identify trends, and summarize findings clearly.
  • Strong project coordination skills, including timeline management, budget tracking, follow-up, organization, and attention to detail.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
  • Understanding of brand management fundamentals, promotion execution, channel marketing, and commercial planning.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise reports, presentations, and project updates.
  • High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy in reporting, budget tracking, timelines, and project documentation.
  • Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented working style.
  • Comfort working with data, reporting tools, retailer information, syndicated data, or business intelligence resources.
  • Ability to work across functions and communicate effectively with internal and external partners.

Preferred

  • Experience with Circana/IRI, NielsenIQ/NIQ, SPINS, retailer POS data, Amazon/vendor portals, or similar syndicated data and reporting tools is a plus.
  • Experience in fruit-based wellness, digestive health, or better-for-you snacking is a plus.
  • Experience supporting multi-channel U.S. retail and e-commerce programs.
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Sunsweet Growers Inc.

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Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the prune market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes a year.

Founded in 1917
Yuba City, California, USA
399 employees (7 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
22K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.1%
Direct
49.5%
Referral
7%
Social
8.9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~399

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
10.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2