Director of Brand Management

California, USA (Hybrid)

$180K/yr – $220K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

Job Summary

You will own the long term brand vision and P&L across GT’s multi-brand portfolio, lead a growth oriented brand team, and partner with cross functional leaders to deliver portfolio-wide impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the long-term brand vision and strategy across GT's full brand portfolio, ensuring every brand plays a clear, differentiated role in driving the business forward.
  • Build and execute brand growth plans across the portfolio, translating strategy into clear action for each brand.
  • Lead Annual Operating Plan (AOP) development and execution across all brands, from goal-setting through delivery against volume, revenue, and profit targets.
  • Drive business growth through effective planning, prioritization, and execution across the portfolio.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Brand Managers, building a high-performing brand organization and creating clear paths for their growth.
  • Own portfolio-level P&L, balancing investment across brands to drive profitable growth for the business as a whole.
  • Act as a visible, influential leader with senior cross-functional partners (Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Insights, Operations) as well as external partners (agencies, retail partners).
  • Ensure alignment and accountability across the brand team, and set the standard for brand execution across the portfolio.
  • Champion collaboration across brands to identify synergies, share best practices, and improve marketing effectiveness portfolio-wide.
  • Represent brand marketing at the leadership level, reporting results, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership and the CMO.

Requirements

  • 8-10+ years of experience in brand management or marketing within CPG, including experience overseeing a multi-brand portfolio or a significant business unit.
  • Brand leadership experience gained at a larger, structured CPG organization is strongly preferred.
  • Experience owning full P&L responsibility across a portfolio of brands, not just a single brand.
  • Strong data analysis skills, with comfort working in syndicated data platforms (e.g., IRI/Circana, SPINS, or Nielsen/NIQ) to make portfolio-level decisions.
  • Proven track record of building senior-level cross-functional relationships and driving alignment across Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations.
  • Experience managing budgets across multiple brands, with a solid understanding of ROI and investment tradeoffs at the portfolio level.
  • Working familiarity with digital marketing and e-commerce fundamentals (e.g., retail media, digital shelf, paid social) is a plus.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field (required); MBA preferred.
  • Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision
  • 401K with Matching
  • Discounts on the amazing GT’s product line
  • Corporate Discounts with our partners thru LifeMart (concert & sporting event tickets, cell phone service, gifts, restaurants, hotels, childcare, and more!)
  • Others: food trucks every weekday, and quarterly employee appreciation events
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GT'S Living Foods

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In 1995, GT’s Living Foods revolutionized how people perceived living, fermented foods when we brought the first-ever bottled kombucha to U.S. shelves. Fast forward to today, and the living foods and gut health conversation we began has transformed into a global movement. We’re proud to remain an independent, family owned and operated company that has never wavered in our belief that nutritious foods have the power to change the world. Over the past thirty years we have created living foods that are authentically and expertly fueled by plants, raw fermentation, naturally occurring probiotics, and ancient wisdom, including our beloved SYNERGY® Raw Kombucha, energizing ALIVE Ancient Mushroom Elixir, nondairy COCOYO Living Coconut Yogurt, refreshing AGUA De KEFIR Cultured Hydration and our latest innovation, AURA Collagen Tea. If you believe in the power of living foods, love a good kombucha and want to join our movement to help people live healthier, happier lives, please explore our career opportunities at gtslivingfoods.com.

Founded in 1995
Beverly Hills, California, USA
349 employees (37 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$180K/yr – $220K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($200K) is 23% above the median base salary for Brand Director roles in the United States ($163K).

Brand Director median pay in the United States

$163K/yr

Most pay falls between $133K and $180K. Based on 21 salaries.

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Director of Brand Management

GT'S Living Foods · California, USA · Hybrid