Sr. Associate Brand Manager

Mars; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 108,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars is seeking a Senior Associate Brand Manager to support cell teams in building brands and delivering value creation plans. You will lead cross-functional projects, analyze performance data, and help forecast demand while ensuring alignment with brand objectives.

You will collaborate across Marketing, Sales, and Customer Marketing, manage budgets, and contribute to brand strategy and seasonal initiatives. A strong marketing background in CPG and hands-on project execution are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• 3+ years marketing work experience required, preferably within CPG industry.
• Strong communication skills (oral, written, listening) including effective presentations to all management levels.
• High interpersonal skills: influencing without direct authority, resolving conflict, creative problem solving.
• Proven analytic skills; comfortable mining and analyzing data to develop actionable conclusions.
• Proficient in managing complex projects; well organized with attention to detail and clear communication.
• Biased toward action; takes initiative and moves projects forward.
• Resilient problem solver; builds consensus and finds creative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze & review brand/season/cell performance, competitive dynamics, and category trends to offer recommendations to increase effectiveness of plans and execution.
• Influence brand strategy and growth opportunity recommendations leveraging customer, consumer, and brand data.
• Monitor brand expenditures and manage the advertising and consumer promotions budget.
• Conduct post evaluation of activities, extracting insights to develop lessons learned and recommendations for future brand activity.
• Execute marketing plans – activation, renovation, and innovation – with excellence, including cross-functional collaboration to ensure quality and readiness of plans, tracking of performance in market, course-correction, and learnings to improve future performance.
• Develop & track growth levers through flywheel analysis (i.e., price-pack, reach+, etc.)
• Collaborate with Customer Marketing to engage Sales and join key customer calls.
• Participate actively in forecasting to understand brand and market trends and drive a quality demand call.

Skills

Marketing experience

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Project management

Presentations

Influence without authority

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Bias toward action

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

Job Description: The Senior Associate Brand Manager (Sr. ABM) will be responsible for supporting the cell team to build brands/seasons and deliver the cell value creation plan. They will support the Marketing team and will lead cross-functional business teams in the planning, execution and analysis of various project and initiatives and possibly seasons. They will own analytics, planning/executing/tracking activations, portfolio planning and forecasting for their business. Additionally, the Sr ABM will have opportunities to assist in the development of brand strategy and the execution of various marketing activities to achieve specific brand/season objectives, including delivery of sales, MAC, and Household Penetration targets.

Job Description: The Senior Associate Brand Manager (Sr. ABM) will be responsible for supporting the cell team to build brands/seasons and deliver the cell value creation plan. They will support the Marketing team and will lead cross-functional business teams in the planning, execution and analysis of various project and initiatives and possibly seasons. They will own analytics, planning/executing/tracking activations, portfolio planning and forecasting for their business. Additionally, the Sr ABM will have opportunities to assist in the development of brand strategy and the execution of various marketing activities to achieve specific brand/season objectives, including delivery of sales, MAC, and Household Penetration targets.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree required. MBA preferred
• 3+ years Marketing work experience required, preferably within CPG industry.
• Strong communication skills (oral, written, listening). This includes ability to give effective presentations to all levels of management.
• High levels of interpersonal skills, specifically around influencing without direct authority, resolving conflict, and creative problem solving.
• Proven analytic skills. Must be comfortable mining and analyzing data, then developing clear and actionable conclusions/recommendations.
• Proficient in managing complex projects. Well organized, successful at prioritization, attentive to details, clear oral and written communicator.
• Biased toward action. Takes initiative, entrepreneurial, can hit the ground running and move projects forward right from the start.
• Resilient problem solver. Can build consensus even if all team members may not agree. Can find creative solutions and common ground to move key initiatives forward.

What would be your key responsibilities?

• Analyze & review brand/season/cell performance, competitive dynamics, and category trends to offer recommendations to increase effectiveness of plans and execution.
• Influence brand strategy and growth opportunity recommendations leveraging customer, consumer, and brand data.
• Monitor brand expenditures and manage the advertising and consumer promotions budget.
• Conduct post evaluation of activities, extracting insights to develop lessons learned and recommendations for future brand activity.
• Execute marketing plans – activation, renovation, and innovation – with excellence, including cross-functional collaboration to ensure quality and readiness of plans, tracking of performance in market, course-correction, and learnings to improve future performance.
• Develop & track growth levers through flywheel analysis (i.e., price-pack, reach+, etc.)
• Collaborate with Customer Marketing to engage Sales and join key customer calls.
• Participate actively in forecasting to understand brand and market trends and drive a quality demand call.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment. $108,160-$148,720