Your Opportunity as the Assistant Brand Manager, Café Bustelo

Café Bustelo is one of the fastest growing brands in coffee with exciting growth plans. A strategic focus for the JM Smucker Company, the brand provides tremendous opportunity for motivated marketing professionals to be part of something special – driving a fast-growing, leading brand at a multi-billion-dollar CPG company.

Location: Orrville, Corporate Offices

Work Arrangements: Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 9 days a month primarily during core weeks as determined by the Company; maybe more as business need requires

In this role you will:

Market & Competitor Analysis

• Evaluates data and market trends impacting the business to develop strong recommendations and strategies.

• Develops actionable insights and strong roadmaps through close collaboration with base brand team, sales, and insights/reporting team.

• Catalog relevant competitive and consumer information relating to respective categories (IRI Panel Data, NPD, Consumer Studies, etc.) to feed the business planning process.

Brand and Marketing Management

• Support Senior Brand Manager in leading development of annual brand plans and marketing objectives, including gaining alignment up to the VP level on all strategies and recommended initiatives.

• Identify growth opportunities for the portfolio, showcasing size of prize and significance to gain buy-in. Develop road-map for long-term success of total portfolio.

• Assisting in development & tracking of long-range and annual operating plan.

• Partner with CCB and Sales to develop channels strategies including implications for assortment, merchandising, pricing and sizing, new business opportunities, and tracking of new item distribution and performance.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in the development of new product ideas and platforms, product improvements or value engineering, and new product activation strategies, taking approved projects through the Stage Gate process.

• Work with Creative Services and graphics agency to optimize and bring new packaging graphics to market that support brand positioning.

General Administrative

• Management of the Marketing budgets

• Foster, contribute and lead, as appropriate, communication flow across disciplines

• Understand data reporting systems including Circana.

• Service ad hoc information requests from Marketing Team

• Hand raise for one-off tasks / projects that pop up throughout the year

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree is required (Marketing or Business degree is preferred)

• 2 years of relevant CPG brand marketing experience

• Experience manipulating/analyzing syndicated data (preferably IRI or Nielsen) to tell a marketing story and/or make recommendations about the business

• Experience with Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Detail Oriented

• Data/system knowledgeable/savvy

• Strong communication and leadership skills

• Demonstrated analytical strength

• Experience tracking & optimizing business results, driving projects with cross functional excellence

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Latin or multi-cultural brand knowledge

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The Right Place for You

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