Brand Manager

About the Role

This position will report to the Director of Marketing. This is a remote role with collaboration sessions in Bakersfield, Rancho Cucamonga, or LA on an as-needed basis. Minimal travel is required.

Job Duties

• Business Analytics: Able to use syndicated, consumer, and customer data to identify business insights and recommend solutions that optimize results. Developing monthly/quarterly business reviews and ad-hoc analysis.
• Strategic Thinking: Contribute to developing comprehensive brand strategy, taking into account consumer, category, and market trends. Able to confidently present strategic, data-driven recommendations to senior team.
• Marketing: Manages the briefing & development of bold, disruptive communication plans, inclusive of social and influencers, in collaboration with internal and external agencies.
• Project Manager: Ability to lead large cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders, complex inputs, and time-sensitive deadlines; effectively manages workload by prioritizing and multi-tasking. Demonstrates a sense of urgency to drive impact.
• Innovation: Manage the development of innovation projects from inception through production and the execution of a tactical support plan. Ability to collaborate with internal cross-functional teams and influence without authority to guide quick, actionable decisions.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Highly skilled at being agile and able to pivot priorities on a dime
• Creative problem solver who is expert at rolling up sleeves and working efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communicator and collaborator with ability to inspire and influence others, either as leader or member of the team
• Natural self-starter, comfortable taking the lead with limited resources while still achieving strong results

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 3-5 years of brand management experience in food CPG
• Deep understanding of how to read, interpret, and build models from syndicated data such as IRI or Nielsen
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal communication and team working skills
• Experience leading and launching new innovation
• Experience working with internal & external agencies to develop marketing plans
• Experience developing and executing social & influencer strategy
• Previous experience leading and working on cross-functional teams
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, fast-changing environment
• Proven, reliable work history

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA preferred
• Consulting background gets bonus points
• Direct experience in CPG food categories is strongly preferred

Pay & Schedule

Pay range: $140,000-$150,000 + Annual Bonus Opportunity. This is a full-time regular, exempt position. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00-5:00pm.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Group Life and AD&D
• Voluntary Life and AD&D
• Group Short & Long-Term Disability
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Gym Membership Discounts