Manager Brand Development

With a career at The Home Depot you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

The primary responsibility is to build equity in in The Home Depots Private Brand addition this position supports Private Brand growth strategies through all marketing vehicles and business resources representing millions of dollars in Home Depot sales.
The Manager - Brand Development is responsible for:
- Ensuring consistent execution of brand standards through all consumer touch points (brand strategy product requirements communication guidelines and packaging standards) in partnership with the Sr. Manager - Brand Development. - Leading cross-functional teams to implement these plans across the business. - A significant component of the Brand Development Managers job will be to create and implement institutional processes that drive more effective control and execution of Home Depots private brands. - Developing and implementing brand/category specific marketing plans. - The brand development manager will also serve as a marketing strategy consultant helping to formulate the companys strategies for seasonal events and merchandising initiatives.

• 30%
• Work with Product Development and Engineering teams to develop category-level product requirements appropriate to brand positioning. Drive competitive benchmarking and consumer research as appropriate.
• Coordinate with international teams to ensure consistent global application of brand strategy and product requirements.
• 30%
• Lead the development of Brand Guides for applicable brand partnering with Sr. Manager - Brand Development for alignment.
• Develop integrated marketing plans (Internal & External). Lead project initiatives across all elements of the marketing mix interacting with and managing / influencing other functions within THD
• 20%
• Apply learnings from consumer insights to support private brand business growth. Participate in store walks and other data gathering opportunities to develop category knowledge and competitive intelligence.
• Explore and Apply Learning from Star Ratings Analysis
• Explore growth opportunities based on analytics
• 20%
• Partner with PDMs and merchants to complete key business analyses including: marketplace / business conditions share trends competitive assessment packaging promotional evaluation product assortment SKU rationalization pricing / sizing analysis and market research analysis and implications.

• This role reports to the Sr Manager of Brand Development.
• This position has no direct reports.

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• 5 Years classical brand management experience
• MBA
• Agency/consultant experience
• Start-up experience; corporate experience
• Retail or home improvement industry experience
• This information indicates the general nature and level of work performed by associates in this role. It is not designed to contain a
• comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of associates assigned to this role. This description
• supercedes any previous or undated descriptions for this role. Management has the right to add or change the duties of the position at any time.

• The knowledge skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelors degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

• No additional education

• 7

• No additional years of experience

• None

• None

• None

• Leadership strategic thinking initiative and follow-through conflict resolution
• Project management priority setting people management analysis budget management
• Management of cross-functional teams effective written and verbal communication