Brand Manager

Lotus Bakeries, Milan; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lotus Bakeries in San Francisco is seeking a Brand Manager to drive growth in turnover, margin and market penetration. You will partner with the Marketing and Category Director to build deep brand expertise and execute marketing and trade plans with timely, budget-aligned delivery.

The role requires collaboration across Sales, R&D, Supply Chain and Production to optimize the product range, roll out NPD/EPD, manage digital marketing and packaging projects, and coordinate multi-channel campaigns

Qualifications

• Min. 2 years of marketing experience (Trade Marketing/Brand management) in a CPG environment.
• Bachelor Degree in Marketing, Business, Economics.
• Proven ability to lead projects across departments and meet milestones.
• Strong familiarity with Digital Marketing and Social Media.

Responsibilities

• Develop a vision for growth across channels and translate into strategy and execution plans.
• Gain insights on product category, competition, customers with Sales and Category Development.
• Inspire and mobilize the organization around the brand plans.
• Lead the optimization of the product range and develop a strong NPD/EPD pipeline.
• Lead trade marketing assets creation/adaptation (Key visuals, Shippers, coupons).
• Be the contact for social channels and website content.

Skills

Brand management

Trade marketing

Digital marketing

Project management

Stakeholder management

Time management

Education

Bachelor degree in Marketing, Business, Economics

Job description

The Brand Manager has the responsibility to ensure the growth of the Brand in turnover, margin and penetration. In partnership with the Marketing and Category Director, the Brand Manager must build a strong expertise of the brand, in order to propose the right marketing and trade marketing plans and then follow up and coordinate these initiatives with best-in-class execution and within the predetermined budgets and timings. The Brand Manager is very enthusiastic about the brand and our products. He/she strongly believes in the values of team spirit, open dialogue and passion and also propagates these in order to achieve an optimal work result.

• Together with the Marketing and Category Director, you develop a vision for the further growth of the Brand in the various channels (retail and OOH) and know how to convert this into a strategy and execution plan. The vision, strategy and plans must be in line with the global strategy.
• You gain the best insights into product category, competition, customers and own actions, in close cooperation with the Sales and Category Development colleagues in order to arrive at the best plans.
• You inspire and mobilize the entire organization around your brand and plans.
• Together with the Marketing and Category Director, you have a leading role in optimizing the product range.
  • This includes both monitoring the performance of the existing range and developing a strong NPD pipeline with new products.
  • You lead the roll-out of NPD's and EPD's from idea to launch and work together with Supply Chain, Sales and Global Brand
  • You build up strong product knowledge about all product categories, which allows you to systematically monitor and increase the quality of the existing product range in collaboration with R&D and production, as well as to think creatively about NPD/EPD opportunities.
  • You can draw up clear briefings for product-oriented market research
• You provide a commercial 360 support in which all elements of the marketing mix come together in best-in-class executions (e.g. Digital media, promotion in the point of sale, website, packaging), and communicate this effectively and in a timely manner to Sales.
  • Lead the creation/adaptation of trade marketing assets (Key visuals, Shippers, coupons,)
  • You lead packaging projects from briefing to execution, timely delivery of logistics information to sales, ...
  • Lead Digital Marketing strategy and execution
• You are the point of contact for our social channels and website and are responsible for driving the content agenda.

Profile

• Min. 2 years of experience in marketing (Trade Marketing/ (jr.) Brand management) in a CPG environment
• Bachelor Degree in Marketing, Business, Economics
• Project management, stakeholder management and time management are crucial: as a brand manager you manage colleagues from different departments and successfully lead projects through the various milestones. You can easily keep several balls in the air at the same time and achieve the desired results in time.
• You can easily switch from helicopter view (to keep an overview) to a microscopic view (you also have an eye for details)
• You are very familiar with Digital Marketing and Social Media (Meta, TikTok, Youtube,)
• You think proactively and like to take initiative and ownership
• Good communication skills (to your own team, to the project team and to senior management)

"What I particularly like about my work at Lotus Bakeries are the diverse teams and projects. Everyone brings a lot of trust and enthusiasm to the table which makes working on challenging projects in an ever changing environment even more exciting."

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