Associate Brand Manager

Our well-known client in product manufacturing industry is looking for a Product Manager to join their team on a 5 month contract, with the potential to extend. 

In this role, you will help shape and deliver global product and portfolio strategies, working closely with product, insights, and commercial partners. On a daily basis, you will collaborate across teams to bring ideas from early concept through market launch while ensuring strategies are grounded in consumer and market insights.

What You Will Do

• Support the development of global product strategies and line plans from early concept through launch
• Apply consumer, category, and cultural insights to guide product innovation, platform evolution, and portfolio decisions
• Analyze market and competitive trends to uncover growth opportunities and areas of unmet demand
• Collaborate with partners across product development, insights, design, engineering, finance, and legal to advance ideas efficiently and creatively
• Help define market launch direction by aligning product intent, positioning, and storytelling across regions
• Support execution in the United States market through line planning, forecasting, and close collaboration with sales teams to drive strong marketplace performance
• Partner with regional and commercial teams to understand local market needs, retail dynamics, and execution challenges
• Maintain forecasting inputs, development systems, and tracking tools to ensure accuracy across product timelines and financials
• Create clear presentations, frameworks, and narratives that bring product strategies to life internally
• Ensure alignment across teams through consistent communication of priorities, progress, and decisions

What You Will Bring

• Three or more years of experience in product management, strategy, consumer goods, or a related field
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Strategy, or a related discipline, with advanced education considered a plus
• Experience supporting product development processes, line planning, forecasting, and collaboration with sales teams
• Strong comfort working with data and insights, with the ability to connect quantitative and qualitative inputs into clear recommendations
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams at once
• Strong interest in product development, consumer behavior, and portfolio strategy
• Clear and confident communication skills with the ability to influence and partner across functions
• Curiosity and comfort experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to enhance analysis, productivity, and creative problem solving
• Proficiency with presentation and spreadsheet tools
• Adaptability and the ability to support a wide range of product categories and development stages

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 05/12/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

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