Marketing Assistant - Franzia and Value Brands

Responsibilities

• Creative Brand Marketer and Activator: Will direct graphic designers and vendors toward consumer needs. Intuitively understands consumer and shopper motivations and can translate brand positioning to marketing communications. Will excel at informing package design and managing implementation.
• Sales and Retailer Orientation: Creates sales presentations and support materials with end user in mind. Key point person for point of sales materials development and management. Able to translate insights into ideas for consumer and shopper engagement.
• Analytical Competency: Will analyze and track brand data and performance. Comfortable with data and knows how to leverage data to determine key insights. Comfortable synthesizing large data sets into digestible information for key stakeholders.
• Budget Management: Understands the construct and business drivers of the brand P and L and holds accountability for marketing based spend pools, including invoicing and tracking against all brand spends/budgets.
• Entrepreneurial Track Record and Competitive Drive: Will work in an entrepreneurial manner, with proven experience in an environment of resource limitations, cost control, prudent risk taking and limitless creativity. Will manage ambiguity and multiple priorities, conveying a sense of urgency and driving issues to closure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 1-2 years prior experience in marketing, sales, advertising, promotions, digital media preferred.
• Prior knowledge and/or experience with wine, spirits or consumer packaged goods preferred.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Previous experience in Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, Canva, and InDesign preferred.
• Strong results orientation and project management skills, excelling at juggling a wide range of administrative and marketing support projects to meet project goals and timelines. Flexible when needs and priorities shift.
• Highly articulate and comfortable working with individuals at all levels of the organization. Excellent verbal and written communication skills; operates equally effectively in formal and informal settings and internally and externally. Well-honed influencing skills: courage to confidently express an independent point of view.
• Possess intellectual curiosity. Can connect “the dots” quickly and perceptively. Problem solves without a road map. Fascinated by emerging consumer trends and design. Enjoys challenging conventional wisdom.
• Have astuteness and flexibility. Is pragmatic, adaptable, and focused in a fast-paced environment. Adapts strategies and approach as new information and circumstances arise. Is resilient in the face of challenging obstacles. Ability to set priorities and work independently within set guidelines.
• Shows passion, energy/endurance, intensity, and excitement; is outcome/results focused and drives issues to closure. Resourceful and innovative; always pushing to find new and better ways of working.