McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Associate Marketing Operations Manager on the Global Marketing team. This new hire will work in a hybrid capacity in our Global Headquarters office in Hunt Valley, MD. The role will report to the Marketing Operations Director.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

Position Overview

The Associate Marketing Operations Manager is responsible for managing the end to end path to payment process of all marketing spend activities and investments for McCormick’s CA CPD and NA Flavor Solutions divisions. This position is responsible for controllership activities related to Marketing spend, including coordination of purchase orders, working and non-working evaluations, retailer and coupon deductions and pre-paid management. Position has direct responsibility for external creative, public relations, and media agency financial management.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the CA CPD and NA Flavor Solutions monthly reconciliation with finance, including on-time delivery of re-pace file, adjustments for any cuts or uncommitted funds and NA financial reporting inputs. 
• Lead NA monthly uncommitted reviews with internal stakeholders to capture spend change requirements. Support the translation of any spend changes to volume, in partnership with the Business Analytics Team.
• Support for NA monthly replans to solve for new funding asks as well as pre-pack forecast with responsibility to track accuracy from volume.
• Owns Ariba/PO/process for McCormick's CACPD and Flavor Solutions marketing spend; Responsibilities include PO entry and management, external vendor invoicing and payment management, vendor set up, payment term adherence for ~$20M in annual A&P spend. Also serves as the Ariba process expert and lead and trainer for all users in department in the new Program LEO system; Leads the adherence of SOW / PO / reporting integrity across the marketing business units, ensuring LEO reflects required payment terms, vendor descriptions, etc.
• Owns relationship with McCormick's external agency finance departments; serves as a liaison working with McCormick's procurement teams and accounts payable teams to manage vendors, trouble shoot problems, and ensure payment term compliance; manages annual agency evaluation process with internal McCormick team
• Responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the quarterly prepaid clean up process working cross functionally with finance 
• Ad Hoc Support – Marketing Operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree – Business Management, Marketing, Finance area of study
• 5 years of Marketing and/or Finance experience
• Experience with vendor management and agency relationships desired
• Personal and Team Leadership; Ability to navigate disparate data systems to drive to solutions; Ability to meet tight deadlines
• Strong personal leadership, including attention to detail and accuracy

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.