Associate Brand & Product Leader

Responsibilities

• Build the capabilities to lead and manage a P&L, including the drivers of sales, price, volume, mix, margin, cost, and profitability.
• Establish quarterly sales and profitability objectives and maintain a disciplined operating cadence against commitments.
• Analyze performance to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities; when results deviate from plan, lead root-cause analysis, countermeasure development, ownership, and follow-through.
• Turn data into fact-based recommendations, decisions, and actions while balancing near-term performance with the long-term health of the brand.
• Build and maintain a rolling two-year brand and product strategy focused on the highest-value opportunities for profitable growth.
• Determine how pricing, product mix, portfolio actions, new product introductions, and commercial execution work together to deliver the strategy.
• Clarify the brand’s role, positioning, differentiation, and growth opportunities within the MasterBrand portfolio.
• Translate competitive intelligence and market dynamics into actionable priorities, measurable outcomes, and investment choices.
• Develop a deep understanding of target customers—their needs, purchase drivers, pain points, economics, decision criteria, and unmet opportunities.
• Spend meaningful time with customers, sales teams, channel partners, and other sources of marketplace insight.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Engineering, or a related discipline required; an MBA or other advanced degree is beneficial but not required.

Preferred

• MBA or other advanced degree is beneficial but not required.