Marketing Manager

Tyson Foods; Springdale (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Tyson Foods in Springdale, Arkansas is seeking a Marketing Manager to translate senior leadership direction into day-to-day marketing plans, campaigns, and cross-functional deliverables. This role emphasizes executional excellence and brand activation across touchpoints, with opportunities to grow toward broader ownership.

The candidate will lead brand positioning, drive insights, manage campaigns, track performance, and collaborate with creative, media, shopper marketing, and digital teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA a plus.
• 5+ years of progressive brand marketing experience.
• Experience in CPG, food, or retail-driven category preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand positioning and strategy for the portfolio.
• Synthesize consumer data and translate into actionable insights.
• Manage day-to-day campaign execution and timelines.
• Track brand health, market share, and KPI performance.
• Collaborate with creative, media, shopper marketing, social and digital teams to ensure on-brand execution.

Skills

Brand marketing

Cross-functional leadership

Budget management

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field

Job description

Job Details: Summary The Marketing Manager supports brand strategy execution for the identified brand portfolio, translating the Senior Manager's strategic direction into day-to-day marketing plans, campaigns, and cross-functional deliverables. The core mandate is executional excellence: bringing the brand strategy to life across touchpoints, managing the details that make campaigns and launches successful, and building the analytical and operational foundation that lets the Senior Manager focus on strategy. This is a strong development role for someone building toward broader brand ownership. This position will sit full time onsite at our World Headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.

Key Responsibilities

• Brand Positioning & Strategy: In partnership with the Sr. Manager, own and evolve the brand strategy for the brand portfolio, including brand purpose, positioning, target consumer definition, and competitive differentiation, in partnership with the business unit GM and team. Ensure brand guidelines are understood and consistently applied across teams and agency partners.
• Consumer & Insights: Synthesize as well as recommend quantitative and qualitative consumer data (segmentation, usage & attitude studies, purchase behavior, social listening) to identify unmet needs and emerging trends; translate findings into clear, actionable insights that inform brand positioning, innovation priorities, and go-to-market strategy; partner with consumer insights teams to design and prioritize research that closes critical knowledge gaps.
• Campaign & Program Execution: Manage the day-to-day execution of marketing campaigns and brand initiatives — timelines, deliverables, approvals, and stakeholder coordination — ensuring on-time, on-brief, on-budget delivery.
• Brand Performance Tracking: Track brand health metrics, market share, and campaign performance against KPIs; prepare regular performance reports and highlight areas needing attention.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the strategic connective tissue across creative, media, shopper marketing, social, and digital experience to ensure a consistent, on-brand experience across all consumer touchpoints; partner with media agency partners to shape media strategy — channel mix, audience targeting, and investment allocation — ensuring plans align with brand positioning and growth priorities; manage agency relationships (creative, media, and specialist partners) to drive high-quality output, accountability to brief, and efficient use of budget.
• Portfolio & Architecture: Guide decisions on product portfolio, naming, and brand architecture within the category space to maintain a coherent brand system.
• Innovation Partnership: Provide strategic brand input into new product development, ensuring launches are grounded in consumer need and brand equity.
• Marketing Plan Development: Build annual brand plans, including objectives, strategies, budget allocation, and success metrics, in partnership with the Sr. Director and the business unit GMs and their teams.
• Budget Management: Support disciplined, ongoing stewardship of the marketing budget in partnership with the Sr Manager and GMs (P&L owners) — including annual planning, in-year reallocation, and ROI tracking across media, innovation, and shopper investments; proactively identify efficiency opportunities and reallocate spend toward highest-return initiatives; ensure spend pacing, forecasting accuracy, and variance reporting meet finance and leadership expectations.
• Creative Oversight and Coordination: Help develop and refine creative briefs; coordinate creative reviews and consolidate feedback from stakeholders to keep creative development on track.

Education & Experience

• Requirements Education: Bachelor's degree required; MBA a plus
• Experience: 5+ years of progressive brand marketing experience, with demonstrated ownership of brand strategy; Experience in CPG, food, or a comparably regulated/retail-driven category preferred; Strong analytical skills — comfortable translating data and consumer insight into strategic recommendations; Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing without direct authority; Experience working with or supporting agency partners

Position Specific Requirements

• Must reside in the United States to be considered.
• Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Relocation Assistance Eligible: Yes
• Work Shift: 1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
• Certain roles at Tyson require background checks. If you are offered a position that requires a background check you will be provided additional documentation to complete once an offer has been extended.
• The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

Culture and Values

At Tyson, we feed the world like family. Our Talent Strategy is to Attract, Grow, Reward and Retain the best talent, and we believe that our Culture is the connecting thread that drives that strategy! We strive to be a talent magnet to establish a reputation for being a talent-rich organization where team members can grow their career while growing the business. We are a high performing organization where team members are rewarded (Pay, Benefits and Recognition) for their contributions, and given the opportunity to support and/or volunteer with programs that help Tyson make a lasting social impact in the communities where we live and work. To learn more about our culture, please read Our Purpose.

Tyson Foods, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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