Associate Brand Manager, US Brands - Classic Brands

Suntory Global Spirits is the world's third largest premium spirits company, where employees are treated like family. The Associate Brand Manager will play a key role in developing and implementing strategic marketing directions for classic brands, driving business growth through analytics and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Be a brand builder for the classic brands portfolio through strong localized and regionalized analytics and critical thinking to drive the business the right way
• Play key role in development and implementation of strategic marketing direction delivering against key value, brand health, and volume/sales/profit growth objectives
• Help identify and source brand materials needed in a State or across the region that represent an opportunity and not currently in the buy offers
• Ensure tracking on Nielsen and The Bar of each brand performance vs Plan, previous year, competitive brands and category trends
• Support the bi-weekly Market Manager meeting up-dates
• Participate and follow up with Brand House status and follow ups
• Work directly with Brand Ambassadors on planning and executing market events with Market Managers
• Process payments and manage budget transfers to markets as plans get approved and move forward
• Directly participate and influence regional brief development as well as work with third party partners to deliver new programs and executions
• Be a part of the creation of brand up-dates, summaries and presentations throughout the year

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and inquisitive personality to dive into untapped details
• Ability to perform structured financial analysis, turning data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Proven ability to execute projects that align with the overall strategy
• Strong project management experience, including budget management
• Ability to collaborate with agencies and other stakeholders to bring ideas from brief to plan and execution
• Strong team player who can also work autonomously
• Able to deliver in a fast-paced environment under pressure/time constraints
• Flexibility in approach to enable strong collaboration cross-functional partners and multiple stakeholders
• Experience working cross-culturally and/or desire to learn about different cultures
• MBA Preferred
• Knowledge of the spirits industry, particularly the three-tier system and distributor partnerships
• Experience in the industry with knowledge of chains and the independent market is preferred but not mandatory

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• 401K match
• Profit sharing
• Medical and wellness benefits

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