HENKEL IS FOR THOSE WHO STEP UP. DO YOU?
At Henkel, you can make a difference and craft your career. That's why you own your projects and take full responsibility from an early stage. Our unique brands in markets around the world open up countless opportunities to follow your convictions and explore new paths. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset that allows you to always think out of the box - take the chance and shape the digital future together with us.
YOUR ROLE
- The role of the Associate Brand Manager on Laundry Innovation is to impact decisions and support development and execution of brand marketing programs
- The Associate will assist the Senior Brand Manager with major new product development initiatives, including identifying consumer insights, partnering with R&D, coordinating market research, developing package copy and developing sales materials
- Lead small, medium, and large scale projects such as new item product, packaging and claims innovations and drive projects forward to completion working closely and in coordination with Cross Functional Teams (Sales, Customer Marketing, R&D, Packaging, Purchasing and Operations) to ensure that overall project goals, timelines and objectives are met
- Deliver consumer/category input within innovation process to help refine plan elements based on consumer, category and Retail Environment knowledge
- Contribute to achievement of P&L, top-line and bottom-line targets, conducting business analysis for business plan and marketing program justification
- Support all facets of the innovation launch process including sales material, selling story positioning, new item sales distribution samples, customer selling presentations
- Ensure all new item critical inputs are completed and accurate so the customer teams can conduct planning and sell in (example: pertinent data, pricing, price list, etc). Assist in the management of the internal new item gateway process and feedback loop externally regarding the customer meeting dates, distribution acceptance, tracking and performance
Thesalary range for this role is $84,000 to $115,000. This is the range that we in good faithanticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than theposted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed inConnecticut. This salary range may alsobe modified in the future.
YOUR SKILLS
- Bachelor's Degree in related field, MBA highly preferred, with 2-3 yrs of related experience, in consumer products innovation.
- Demonstrated leadership ability.
- Strong team orientation , excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with people in diverse functional areas.
- Strong Innovation Project Management experience (NPD preferred) and ability to balance multiple objectives and prioritize accordingly
- Solid analytical skills, excellent written and oral communication skills
- Passion and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a resolutive attitude
Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other legally protected characteristics.
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