Associate Brand Manager Innovation

Company: Spectrum Brands (UK)
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: November 22, 2020

Job Description:

Associate Brand Manager - Innovation Job number: US13177 Position type Regular Function Marketing State/Province Wisconsin City Milwaukee Region US Posting Date: Nov-11-2020 Division Information Spectrum Brands' Home & Personal Care (HPC) Appliances business participates on a global basis in small electric appliances, shave/groom appliances and beauty appliances. Our well- known brands include George Foreman, Black+Decker, Farberware, Breadman, Juiceman, Russell Hobbs and Remington. Our products appeal to consumer trends for healthy eating, stay-at-home cooking, creating today's new hair style and much more. We distinguish our product offerings from the competition by employing forward thinking, innovative technologies matched with a strong understanding of consumer needs to bring to market high quality, superior products that delight the end user. Job Summary Relocation to the Madison, WI area is required for this role. The Associate Brand Manager - Innovation is responsible for providing marketing and product development support to revitalize established brands and advance innovation to ensure that products have even greater appeal within the marketplace. This person must have 2-4 years' experience within classical product/brand marketing organizations, experience with product development and innovation. This person will be leveraging consumer insights to help identify trends and long-term business opportunities for this category. They will partner with New Product Development Departments and our International Counterparts and participate in product development from concept through launch. Effectively manage quick turnaround requests based on critical business needs. They will need to influence and collaborate across multiple regions and cross functional teams while managing the needs of multiple stakeholders. Primary Duties & Responsibilities - Provide marketing and product development support to revitalize established brands and advance innovation to ensure that products have even greater appeal within the marketplace. - Leverage consumer insights to identify trends and long-term business opportunities for this category. - Partner with New Product Development and participate in product development from concept through launch. - Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple regions and cross functional teams. Manage the needs of multiple stakeholders. - Understand needs of constituents (Americas) and work within the global constructs to balance the needs of the business Locally, Regionally and Globally. Education and Experience Profile An equivalent combination of: - Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field. - Minimum of 2 years' experience in Brand Management with a CPG company. Required Skills Required Skills - Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives - Effective in a variety of formal presentation settings; one on one, small and large groups, with peers, direct reports and bosses; is effective both inside and outside the organization, on both data and controversial topics; commands attention and can manage group processes during the presentation; can change tactics when something isn't working - Follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same. - Shows personal commitment and takes action to continuously improve - Anticipates future trends and implications accurately. Readily poses future scenarios. - Ability to find direction and guide teams with ambiguous and incomplete inputs - Organizing, and managing resources to bring about successful completion of a specific project - Identifies, collects, and organizes data for analysis. - Understanding of brand strategy and positioning, managing the brand and providing clear brand guidelines for its protection, tracking and measuring its performance - General understanding of meaning and implications of key financial indicators. Uses financial analysis to generate, evaluate and actor on strategic options. - International experience and/or experience in a multi-cultural environment is desirable. - Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time. Work Environment Working conditions are normal for an office environment. The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. #LI-SO1

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