Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

The Associate Brand Manager will support Brand Marketing across Eagle Foods brands. The role will work as part of the Brand Marketing team to execute and optimize marketing initiatives including but not limited to, campaigns, branding, new item development and innovation, budgeting, data analytics, and sales materials development to support brand success in market.

Essential Functions

• Exhibit the ability to manage multiple projects on time and on budget while finding creative solutions to challenges that come up throughout the project
• Lead communications initiatives as part of the overall brand plans around specific touchpoints or consumer targets including agency and cross-functional team management, strategy, planning, execution and results measurement
• Prepare, present and gain alignment on aspects of the brand plans and new items to groups including management, cross-functional partners and external stakeholders
• Analyze and make recommendations for short and long-term strategy using category, consumer, shopper, and marketplace data as well as cross-functional collaboration
• Lead consumer services, partnering with the consumers services team ensuring a best-in-class brand experience for our consumers and actionable reporting and insights to maintain top quality products
• Manages budget ensuring adherence to annual budget, projections remain current, and invoicing is completed accurately in our expense system
• Support annual brand and business planning and other retail channel projects/duties as assigned or needed.
• Other duties as assigned

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Ability to analyze information and convert related activities into a comprehensive work plan
• Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management
• Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to multi-task and drive multiple projects
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Ability to deal with confidential information
• Demonstrated problem solving, time management and priority setting skills
• Ability to work through and thrive in ambiguous situations and continue to drive projects forward
• Entrepreneurial approach to work, exhibiting the ability to effectively organize, prioritize and execute tasks in dynamic business environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Business, and/or related field
• 2 years of CPG marketing or brand experience preferred. Experience in food categories is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to convey information to internal and external stakeholders in a clear, focused and concise manner
• Familiarity with syndicated data systems (Nielsen, Consumer Household Panel, etc.), managing and leveraging primary consumer research and analyzing multiple data sources to generate business insights
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Additional Information

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job