Responsibilities

• Analyze & review brand/season/cell performance, competitive dynamics, and category trends to offer recommendations to increase effectiveness of plans and execution.
• Influence brand strategy and growth opportunity recommendations leveraging customer, consumer, and brand data.
• Monitor brand expenditures and manage the advertising and consumer promotions budget.
• Conduct post evaluation of activities, extracting insights to develop lessons learned and recommendations for future brand activity.
• Execute marketing plans – activation, renovation, and innovation – with excellence, including cross-functional collaboration to ensure quality and readiness of plans, tracking of performance in market, course-correction, and learnings to improve future performance.
• Develop & track growth levers through flywheel analysis (i.e., price-pack, reach+, etc.)
• Collaborate with Customer Marketing to engage Sales and join key customer calls.
• Participate actively in forecasting to understand brand and market trends and drive a quality demand call.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required. MBA preferred
• 3+ years’ Marketing work experience required, preferably within CPG industry.
• Previous experience with Nielson
• Strong communication skills (oral, written, listening). This includes ability to give effective presentations to all levels of management.
• High levels of interpersonal skills, specifically around influencing without direct authority, resolving conflict, and creative problem solving.
• Proven analytic skills. Must be comfortable mining and analyzing data, then developing clear and actionable conclusions/recommendations.
• Proficient in managing complex projects. Well organized, successful at prioritization, attentive to details, clear oral and written communicator.
• Biased toward action. Takes initiative, entrepreneurial, can hit the ground running and move projects forward right from the start.
• Resilient problem solver. Can build consensus even if all team members may not agree. Can find creative solutions and common ground to move key initiatives forward.