Senior Associate Brand Manager -La Marca

We’re a family-owned company with a 90+ year legacy, consistently recognized as a Glassdoor “Best Places to Work.” Our portfolio includes 130+ alcohol beverage brands spanning wine, malt, spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages. We’re home to the #1 wine and spirits brands in the U.S.—Barefoot Wine & High Noon—and are official sponsors of the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America.

About the role

As a Senior Associate Brand Manager for the LaMarca brand at Gallo, you will play a key role in shaping and advancing brand strategies that drive business growth, strengthen consumer connections, and support long-term success. You’ll partner cross-functionally to develop and execute impactful marketing initiatives, evaluate market opportunities, and help deliver exceptional brand experiences across multiple channels.

Working closely with brand leaders and subject matter experts, you’ll contribute to strategic planning, business reviews, and executional excellence while ensuring brand plans align with company objectives and financial goals. You’ll leverage consumer, customer, and channel insights to identify opportunities, optimize brand performance, and support innovative marketing initiatives. Your role will involve analyzing data, monitoring trends, managing budgets, and connecting brand storytelling to meaningful consumer experiences.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic portfolio while building expertise in brand strategy, consumer marketing, channel activation, and business management. If you are energized by solving business challenges, uncovering insights, and bringing brands to life through meaningful consumer engagement, this role provides an exciting opportunity to grow your career.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute brand strategies to drive business growth and strengthen consumer connections.
• Partner cross-functionally to create and implement impactful marketing initiatives.
• Evaluate market opportunities and deliver exceptional brand experiences across multiple channels.
• Contribute to strategic planning, business reviews, and executional excellence.
• Analyze consumer, customer, and channel insights to identify opportunities and optimize brand performance.
• Manage budgets, monitor trends, and connect brand storytelling to consumer experiences.
• Support innovative marketing initiatives and ensure alignment with company objectives and financial goals.
• Travel up to 50% of the time to designated business locations and support in-market expectations.
• Travel up to 5% of the time to company offices, sites, and meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events.

Requirements

• Master's degree plus 2 years of marketing, agency, brand ambassador, tasting room, bartender/mixology, restaurant management, or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR
• Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of marketing, agency, brand ambassador, tasting room, bartender/mixology, restaurant management, or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR
• Bachelor’s plus 3 years of Gallo sales, marketing, engineering, or operations experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR
• High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 8 years of marketing, agency, brand ambassador, tasting room, bartender/mixology, restaurant management, or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Must be 18 years or older.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen.
• Skilled in project management.
• Ability to effectively partner with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• Master's degree plus 4 years of brand marketing experience; OR
• Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of marketing, agency, brand ambassador, tasting room, bartender/mixology, restaurant management, or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR
• Bachelor’s plus 6 years of Gallo sales, marketing, hospitality, engineering, or operations experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Brand management experience.
• IRI Circana experience.
• Experience managing multiple external agencies.
• CPG, Pharmaceutical, or Alcohol beverage industry experience.

Schedule

• Must be willing and able to be based in Modesto, CA (requires 3 days/week onsite) or Dallas, TX (requires 5 days/week onsite).
• Hybrid telecommute option available for Modesto-based role.

Pay

$103,100 - $154,700 per year. Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by factors such as education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. This position may also be eligible for bonuses, incentive plans, or participate in tasting room tip pools, as applicable.

Benefits

• Medical and dental coverage.
• 401k plans with profit sharing.
• Pet insurance.
• Company holidays.
• Access to an employee wine shop.
• Additional benefits may be provided and will be discussed before the first interview.