Senior Brand Manager, Cheez-It®
Chicago, IL (On-site)
Posted 3 days ago
Job Summary
Own the Cheez-It brand strategy and global marketing agenda, leading cross-functional initiatives from long-range planning through breakthrough, measurable brand-building work.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead development and execution of annual and long-range brand plans for Cheez-It®, ensuring clear linkage between brand ambition, consumer needs, portfolio priorities, and business objectives.
- Translate data and insights into strategic choices that drive household penetration, purchase occasions, share growth, profitability, and long-term brand health.
- Manage business performance through ongoing consumption, shipment, share, margin, and P&L analysis; identify risks and opportunities and recommend action plans to deliver commitments.
- Partner with Sales, Finance, Insights, Category Strategy, R&D, Supply Chain, Shopper, Omni, Media, PR, Legal, and agency partners to align the organization behind the brand growth agenda.
- Champion deep understanding of the Cheez-It® brand’s target audiences, snacking occasions, category dynamics, and cultural growth spaces.
- Develop integrated marketing strategies and briefs that connect brand positioning, product benefits, and cultural relevance across consumer touchpoints.
- Orchestrate agency partners through creative, media, PR, social, shopper, and experiential planning to deliver breakthrough brand-building work with clear objectives and measurable outcomes.
- Help ensure Cheez-It® shows up consistently and distinctively across major tentpoles, moments, and activations.
- Shape the consumer-led innovation and renovation pipeline that strengthens the core, accelerates priority sublines, unlocks new occasions, and drives recruitment.
- Guide cross-functional commercialization from insight and concept through business case, package development, demand planning, sales sell-in, launch readiness, and post-launch optimization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Marketing, Business, Finance, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Preferred
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Benefits
- industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
- participation in 401k plan
- paid time off benefits
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Salaries
Posted range
$134K/yr – $185K/yr
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