Senior Product Marketing Specialist - Roast & Ground
Lavazza Group · New York, NY · 6 days ago
HybridMarketing$100k–$110k/yrFull-time
Job Responsibilities
- Develop the R&G category vision by identifying shopper trends, category dynamics, and growth opportunities across Retail, eCommerce, and eRetail channels.
- Analyze existing portfolio and NPD performance to identify growth drivers, improvement opportunities, and priority rankings.
- Create R&G assortment guidelines for online and offline channels to support customer assortment priorities and distribution targets.
- Define portfolio objectives, NPD opportunity areas, key success criteria, pricing strategy, promotional approach, and volume ambitions aligned with business goals.
- Coordinate the end-to-end NPD creation process with brand, shopper marketing, Commercial Strategy, Sales, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, North America platform teams, and global headquarters.
- Establish national shopper key performance indicator (KPI) objectives and prepare dashboards and reports that track category performance, activation impact, return on investment (ROI), and growth opportunities.
- Oversee national customer activation analysis and sell-out sales force activities, including set-up, coordination, and ongoing support for partners such as IRI Tactical Retail (IRT) and Basemakers.
- Monitor syndicated data sources, including Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), Nielsen, Numerator, and Nielsen Spaceman, to inform category recommendations and decision-making.
Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
- 5-7 years of experience in trade marketing, revenue growth management (RGM), four Ps strategy, category management, or portfolio strategy within the retail sales / sell-out environment.
- Experience with sales value chain, portfolio strategy setup, and customer management.
- Experience leading or coordinating new product development initiatives across cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Sales, Commercial Strategy, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, and global stakeholders.
- Experience using syndicated data and category management tools such as IRI, Nielsen, Numerator, or Nielsen Spaceman to evaluate performance and recommend actions.
- Experience in consumer and shopper research, interacting with agencies and managing main research tools.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for data analysis, reporting, and customer-facing presentations.
Benefits/Perks
- Competitive Medical, Vision, Dental Benefits
- 401K Package
- Employee Assistance Program
- Hybrid Work Schedule
- Ability to be barista certified
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Performance Development Plans
- Employee Discounts
- Summer Friday’s (Memorial Day Weekend – Labor Day Weekend)
- Flexible business casual dress code - jean friendly!
- Free coffee, anytime!