Associate Brand Manager (ABM Kisses Seasons)

Position Title: Associate Brand Manager (ABM) Kisses Seasons

Reports to Title: Brand Manager

Dept / Function: Marketing

Location: Guadalajara Jal.

Summary:

The ABM will develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies to achieve brand and business objectives.

The Associate Brand Manager is responsible to:

1) Planning: Assist in AOP (annual brand plan) planning alignment and KPIs setting.

2) Brand Building: Collaborate and execute brand performance market trends consumer-research analysis to uncover insights for brand positioning development

3) Strengthen portfolio: Develop and ensure successful launch of innovations ensuring alignment with brand strategy (OBPPC) identify and capitalize distribution opportunities and execute portfolio rationalization.

5) RGM capabilities: Collaboration with key commercial partners to determine brand pricing/promo decisions; ensuring price strategy accomplishment at channel and portfolio level.

6) Brand communication: Assist in annual communication planning (media creative POS PR) alignment and KPIs setting. Execute and monitor strategies.

7) Team development: Develop coordinators and/or trainees reporting to him/her.

The ABM is expected to possess the following hard skills:

a) Marketing mix management

b) Financial KPIS (P&L & knowledge of RGM platforms)

c) Market analysis

d) Brand strategy

e) Product development

f) Project management

g) Tools (Tableau Power BI Homescan Nielsen Iscam)

h) Communication & Media (planning KPI analysis management budget)

i) Solid analytical skills to sort through data to make well-reasoned conclusions and translate the learnings into action plans.

To effectively perform his or her duties ABM must be proficient in all of the following key qualities as defined by the Hershey Company: Leadership skills Attention to detail Adaptability Problem Solving Negotiation Communication and Collaboration with external and internal parties of the company and Proactivity and Creativity.

Responsibilities:

• Planning
• Brand Building
• Portfolio Plan Execution
• RGM Plan Execution
• Team Development
• Communication plan Execution

Education:

Bachelors Degree required (Marketing/Management high achievement and quantitative ability primary considerations).

Experience:

Marketing Experience: 3 years (preferred)

• Brand marketing experience (as Brand Coordinator) 2-3Y
• Working knowledge of syndicated data (e.g. Nielsen ISCAM RIE).
• Product Development experience and successful launches
• Project management experience with stage gate process

Business Experience: 2 years.

• Background in consumer-packaged goods
• Experience in cross-functional disciplines a significant plus (e.g. finance category management media mkt research etc.)

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