Associate Brand Manager, Jack Black - USA - New York, NY

Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of 6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers. Our family of over 25 personal care brands serves people in more than 50 countries. We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyon ...

Job description

Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of 6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers. Our family of over 25 personal care brands serves people in more than 50 countries. We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value of People First guiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.

This role is Hybrid out of either our NYC or Shelton, CT office

Associate Brand Manager, Jack Black Grooming Strategy

Position Summary

The Associate Brand Manager will be an integral member of the Jack Black Brand Marketing team, supporting the growth, innovation, and performance of the Jack Black brand. Reporting to the Brand leader, this role will partner closely with cross functional teams to support consumer marketing activities, product commercialization, and ongoing brand performance management.

Key responsibilities include partnering closely with the Innovation team on go to market strategies for new product launches, supporting SKU rationalization efforts to improve portfolio productivity, and providing analytical support across brand and product level performance. The Associate Brand Manager will also support the development of selling stories to drive distribution and off shelf opportunities, contribute to packaging and merchandising evaluations, and provide insights through regular brand and category reporting.

Jack Black is the number one Prestige Men's Grooming Brand and a key growth driver within Edgewell Grooming. As a brand with a strong entrepreneurial heritage and premium positioning, Jack Black offers a unique opportunity to work on a high performing portfolio while benefiting from the scale and resources of a larger organization.

Accountabilities

• Support the execution of Jack Black brand strategies and initiatives under the direction of the Brand Leader.

• Provide analytical and strategic support to the annual strategic, sales, and marketing planning processes, including sales forecasting, competitive assessment, evaluation of past program performance, and identification of key insights and implications

• Partner closely with the Innovation team to support go to market strategy development for new product launches, including positioning, pricing considerations, portfolio role, and commercialization readiness

• Support the execution of elements of the 4P strategy product, price, promotion, placement at the brand and product levels

• Play a key role in SKU rationalization efforts by analyzing SKU level performance, identifying productivity opportunities, and supporting recommendations to optimize the portfolio

• Monitor and analyze brand level and product level P&L performance, including identifying drivers of variance versus plan and surfacing risks and opportunities

• Closely monitor and analyze sales volumes, market share trends, and competitive activity; manage SKU level forecasting, volume bridges, and ship share models to support forecast accuracy

• Initiate and support market research projects to generate consumer and customer insights that inform brand decisions and long term growth opportunities

• Identify and apply key consumer and category insights to support business opportunities and anticipate competitive response to brand actions

• Analyze syndicated data IRI to produce regular brand and category performance reporting that explains key trends and performance drivers

• Partner closely with Customer Development to identify opportunities to increase productivity, expand distribution, and optimize product mix across channels of trade

• Support creative briefing and evaluation of packaging, merchandising, and commercial innovation initiatives in collaboration with internal and external partners

Required Education, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Business or Marketing related disciplines

• 3+ years CPG experience having directly supported a brand in a global or commercial organization with strong analytical responsibilities

Desirable Education, Skills and Experience

• MBA highly preferred

• Strong commercial awareness and familiarity with latest marketing trends and best practices

• Knowledge and passion for the Men's Grooming or Personal Care categories

• Ability to lead cross functional teams through multi faceted and complex strategic and or marketing projects

• Ability to conduct competitive analysis that identifies competitor strategies, strengths and weaknesses and to identify key actionable insights that can be applied to our brands

• Self motivated and goal oriented; ability to work independently with minimal supervision

• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and work effectively with team members and various key stakeholders

• Ability to recognize opportunities for improvements and proactively offer ideas for how to improve

• Excellent organizational skills; ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects autonomously in a challenging, fast paced environment while consistently meeting time sensitive deadlines

• Ability to influence without direct authority

• Detail oriented with strong analytical and strategic thinking skills

• Strong financial acumen with the ability to evaluate brand and product level P&L performance and understand key business drivers

• Ability to work in a fast paced and highly matrixed environment

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to articulate in a clear and concise manner across various levels of the organization

• Proficient in organizing, analyzing, and visualizing large amounts of data to solve business problems and make recommendations

• Experience with data platforms such as Power BI is desirable, particularly in support of Amazon and digital performance analysis

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Proficient in using syndicated data reporting tools IRI, Nielsen, Circana

The salary range for this position is $96,000 - $125,000.  Actual base salary offered to a candidate may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance. 

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