Brand Manager

Carmel, IN (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Lead brand strategy and end-to-end activation for assigned brands, turning consumer and competitive insights into growth opportunities while partnering with Sales and external partners.

  • Develop consumer-led positioning, packaging, and go-to-market plans
  • Present strategies to customers and align with Sales on commercial plans
  • Translate data and insights into actionable growth initiatives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand strategy, annual planning, and execution for assigned brands and categories.
  • Develop and implement consumer-led marketing, positioning, innovation, packaging, and activation strategies.
  • Use consumer, customer, category, and competitive insights to identify growth opportunities and inform decisions.
  • Partner with Sales to develop customer strategies, selling stories, presentations, and commercial plans.
  • Present to customers as a strategic partner alongside the Sales team, when needed.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to bring programs, innovation, and go-to-market initiatives to market successfully.
  • Monitor business performance and adjust strategy to achieve financial and brand objectives.
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external agency partners.

Requirements

  • Minimum bachelor’s degree and 5 years of brand strategy experience within consumer food products.
  • Experience in sweeteners, nutrition, coffee, beverages, or ready-to-drink consumer categories.
  • Prior Sales experience or a proven track record of partnering with Sales and presenting directly to customers.
  • Strong understanding of consumer-packaged goods, category management, and brand-building principles.
  • Ability to synthesize data and insights into clear, actionable growth strategies.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and leadership skills.
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Heartland Food Products Group

Heartland Food Products Group is a global leader in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, producing low-calorie sweeteners, coffee, coffee creamers and liquid water enhancers. Simply put, we make coffee, tea and water taste better. Our portfolio includes a variety of branded, licensed and private label products within multiple categories. We also provide strategic co-manufactured partnerships with many category leaders.On the branded side of the business, we manufacture and market SPLENDA®, the #1 brand in the low-calorie sweetener (LCS) category and the most recognizable in the world. And we’re leading the charge in the quickly emerging cold brew coffee category with JAVA HOUSE® Authentic Cold Brew Coffee, our 100% authentic cold brew handcrafted in small batches.In addition, we are the leading provider of private label sweeteners and liquid water enhancers in the U.S.Our products are distributed throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. We employ over 1,200 people worldwide.

Founded in 1995
Carmel, Indiana, USA
727 employees (49 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8K
Traffic Source Mix
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33.6%
Direct
44.1%
Referral
7.7%
Social
12.9%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~729
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Brand Manager

Heartland Food Products Group · Carmel, IN · Unknown