Associate Marketing Manager

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we helpcustomers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce

Job Purpose and Overview

The Associate Marketing Manager, Market Accounts, will tactically execute plans delivering against shared P&L goals for market accounts in the US and Canada through activating marketing initiatives, supporting customer needs, and achieving Opex Budget Management.

• Tactically execute against North America (U.S and Canada) value propositions based on understanding customer needs and insights of market accounts to deliver growth for Dawn's ingredient business.
• Support communication of trends, insights, and marketing capabilities directly to customers tied to their business objectives and provide solutions that grow their business and help reach Dawn's financial goals.

Work Environment & Travel: This is a remote position that requires up to 25% travel.

What will you do as anAssociate Marketing Manager at Dawn Foods?

• Business Strategy & Planning:Support the North America long-term strategy; deploy marketing initiatives across all regions of North America. Understand the consumer, our customers, channels, product categories, competitors, and the economic and marketing environment regarding its impact on overall business plans. Support work to analyze market account business and update strategies/annual plans.

• Market Account Business Development:Execute market account activations and innovation launches. Work with local markets to develop sales forecasts, targets for innovation, with responsibility for ensuring pricing and inventory is established at all DCs in the US. Execute sampling plans through local market accounts, plans to drive sales enablement and training of marketing initiatives, and initiatives against Hispanic customer growth plans.

• Internal & External Customer Relationships: Acts as marketing support for local DCs, including local shows/events, and as the voice of customers, representing our artisanal customers in all marketing initiatives.

• Other duties as assigned

What Does It Take to be an Associate Marketing Managerat Dawn Foods?

• A High School Diploma or GED is required
• A Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Communications, Psychology, or other related fields with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in marketing; marketing experience with a food manufacturer, and/or with B2B (and B2B2C) with manufacturing customers is preferred
  • Will accept 7 years of professional experience in marketing in lieu of a bachelor's degree

• Multi-channel experience and skills - Strategy, Plans, Promotions, Incentive Programs, etc.
• Demonstrative ability and strong grasp of targeting, segmentation, and brand strategy to contribute to and deploy initiatives successfully across North America
• Strength in creating promotional/activation programs to strengthen the Dawn brand, drive revenue growth, and engender loyalty with new and prospective customers
• The ability to drive business performance with demonstrated experience in P&L management and ownership to drive revenue and profit growth
• Strong relationship-building skills to partner with and influence leaders, external partners, customers, and work in a matrixed environment; can quickly and effectively shift approach and tactics based on audience
• Creative problem-solving and collaboration skills; ability to navigate ambiguity and fast-changing environments quickly and effectively
• The ability to translate consumer, customer, market, and competitive insights into meaningful business opportunities; excellent communication skills & storytelling, both verbal and written

• Entrepreneurial spirit and desire to build a business and drive change
• Food industry experiences desired but not required

• Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
• Exposure and/or experience with design platforms (i.e., Canva) is a plus
• Bilingual, Spanish-speaking capabilities are a plus
  
  

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The normal setting for this job is a remote office.

Note:The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply."

About Our Benefits

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.

Benefits

$78,370-$122,260 with bonus eligibility

#LI-Remote #LI-AH1

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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.

Requisition ID: 37303