Associate Brand Manager
Edgewell Personal Care
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.
Position Summary:
The Associate Brand Manager – Shave will be an integral member of the US Shave Brand Marketing team to help develop and drive the analytics, strategy, positioning, and communication in support of building strong brands for our consumers and retailers. This role will assist in the planning, development, and implementation of all strategic and tactical consumer- marketing activities to enhance the growth and profitability of the brand. Primary responsibilities will include supporting the Brand Director to monitor and assess the brand in market, develop, recommend and lead the execution of marketing plans, , and manage the effective deployment of the marketing budget. Responsibilities will also include forecasting, data analysis, sales/customer-specific brand projects and monthly brand/competitive/category reporting.
Accountabilities:
• Function as brand guardian ensuring all consumer communications and touchpoints are aligned with brand positioning and strategy.
• Assist in the development of detailed marketing plans to achieve stated objectives and meet financial and profitability goals.
• Support the annual strategic and business planning processes by assessing the market, evaluating past program performance, building marketing plans and identifying key goals and objectives.
• Support the development and execution of the 4P strategy (product, price, promotion, placement) at the brand and product levels.
• Assist in developing and executing promotional initiatives to profitably increase consumption within budget parameters.
• Closely monitor and analyze sales volumes, market share trends and competitive activity; manage SKU level forecasting, volume bridges and ship/share model to drive forecast accuracy.
• Measure and evaluate marketing activities to determine ROI and effectiveness of activity; identify key issues impacting brand volume performance and recommend potential solutions.
• Initiate market research projects to deliver powerful consumer and customer insights as the basis for long-term brand growth; develop these insights into achievable plans.
• Identify and apply key consumer insights to support business opportunities and anticipate competitive response to brand actions and effectively analyze point of sale, household panel, and syndicated data to identify business issues, opportunities, and trends.
• Partner closely with Sales/Sales Strategy to identify opportunities to expand the business in existing channels of trade.
• Provide accurate and timely performance updates including in-depth analysis of variances along with recommendations.
• Stay abreast of industry best practices and emerging technology opportunities in all areas related to performance marketing.
Key competencies:
- Marketing – experience with brand analytics and marketing program execution
- Project Management – hands on experience managing multiple projects with timelines
- Analytics – base understanding of business (sales data, financials) measurement & analytics
Skills and personality traits:
• Consumer-first mindset, brand passionate, always curious
• Collaborative, team-oriented
• Agile – thrives in fast paced, dynamic environment
• Organized and able to manage and prioritize across multiple brands
• Self-starter
Required Education, Skills and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Business or Marketing related discipline.
• 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 preferred.
• Demonstrated working experience analyzing and drawing insights/conclusions from POS Data (IRI/Nielsen), HH Panel Data (IRI/Nielsen/Numerator), and Syndicated Data (Kantar, Euromonitor, Mintel).
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams through multi-faceted and complex strategic and/or marketing projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate in a clear and concise manner across various levels of the organization.
• Strong commercial awareness and familiarity with latest marketing trends and best practices.
• 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.
• 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.
• Proficient in organizing and analyzing large amounts of data to solve business problems and make recommendations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Cosmetics/Personal Care experience a plus!
The salary range for this position is $96,000 - 124,000. 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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