Associate Brand Manager

At Henkel, you can be a game changer and craft your career. Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit by bringing your ideas to life within a global team. Our leading brands and technologies, along with our high-performing businesses will provide you with countless opportunities to develop your skills and explore new paths. Your career at Henkel will contribute to a more sustainable future, while you grow within our vibrant, diverse culture of trust and belonging. If you're up for challenging the status quo, join our team of pioneers and make your mark on the future with us.

Do you dare to make an impact?

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 Brand Manager and Director 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

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

The salary for this role is $73,000.00 - $136,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Connecticut. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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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.