Responsibilities

• Manage the business with an eye towards speed and focus on increasing gross margin and overall brand profitability
• Collaborate across all key functions globally and be recognized as a key leader in driving the cross functional team and agenda
• Communicate regularly with regions and countries to ensure they are properly adapting the global brand strategy, positioning, architecture, innovation and marketing plans to their markets
• Help refine the global brand strategy and global brand positioning in partnership with your leadership team to align with market trends and consumer insights
• Help embed the global brand positioning globally by working with local countries and regions
• Help lead development of the short and long term global brand strategy; Partner with countries and regions to help them adopt the global brand strategy into their market with only slight changes to fit the nuances of the market
• Execute the global brand architecture in all brand communications and packaging; Partner with local countries and regions to help them shift fully into the approved global brand architecture
• Be the enforcer of the global brand identity guidelines in all markets; Protect the brand’s immutable core assets and core packaging architecture ensuring all markets comply with the brand identity guidelines in forms of internal and external communication
• Lead portions of innovation process globally partnering with countries and regions to ensure their needs are met and appropriate innovation is launched to grow market share worldwide
• Contribute to the global annual brand planning process with input from the local brand team

Requirements

• A four-year college degree, MBA preferred.
• 4+ years of brand management experience. Preferred: Working in a global capacity.
• Experience diagnosing business performance using tools like ACNielsen, IRI, NPD or other systems measuring POS and shipment data
• Prior experience in CPG (Consumer Products) or a Durables organization
• Exposure to consumer insights and leveraging analytics of primary and secondary research, emerging trends, POS results and competitor/category actions to drive leadership brand sales.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results.