About the Role
Drive growth on Ocean Spray’s flagship North American business by partnering with the Brand Marketing team. This role is responsible for brand-building and business-building initiatives, ensuring the delivery of annual financial targets to grower owners.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for weekly, monthly or quarterly business reporting to Senior Leadership, identifying key growth drivers and areas of opportunity for the beverage business.
- Develop, own and monitor channel-specific forecasts for Beverage products as part of Ocean Spray’s monthly demand planning process.
- Lead execution of annual marketing strategies to deliver against the beverage team’s fiscal year earnings target and profitability goals.
- Partner with Director to build Beverage Business Unit annual marketing plans and deliver those plans to Sr. Leadership for endorsement.
- Lead development of semi-annual Sales materials to Retail Sales team.
- Drive communication strategy, partnering with Brand Elevation to develop optimal creative messaging, media plan and shopper marketing programs for key drive windows and products.
- Lead and champion margin optimization and “design to value” projects for Beverage business to drive top-line and bottom-line growth across Beverage P&L.
- Lead and inspire team of cross functional peers, across Sales, Insights, Supply, Operations, Packaging, Finance, on key projects to enable growth for the Beverage business.
Requirements
- Strong analytic skills.
- Ability to sift through large amounts of data to uncover true drivers behind the “why” and tell the story in a succinct way.
- Superior presentation skills, both in ability to develop compelling stories and to effectively deliver those stories to audiences at all levels within the organization.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence without authority.
- Candidate should be self-starter who has demonstrated personal and thought leadership capabilities in prior responsibilities.
Experience Level
- At least 5 Years of Experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or University Degree (Required)
- Master's Degree (Preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $116,300 - $145,400
Benefits
- Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes a plethora of health and wellness programs
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Life and accident insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Telehealth services
- 1:1 health coaching
- Supportive benefits for all the stages of your life
- 401(k) with up to 6% Company matching; additional potential discretionary match at year-end
- Short-Term Incentive/Performance bonuses
- Flexible scheduling options
- Vacation pay, up to three weeks of time (pro-rated for your first year of employment)
- Holiday pay for 12 holidays
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Tuition/Education assistance programs
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Scholarship programs for children of employees
- Parental leave
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions – Back-up care, tutoring, etc.
- Adoption assistance
- Bereavement leave
- Up to $300 fitness reimbursement
- Up to $300 massage reimbursement
- Employee appreciation events
- Employee discounts
- Charitable giving
About the Company
- We’re a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done.
- Three maverick farmers started it all — and we’ve been making our own way ever since.
- You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about what’s better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce.
- The hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative.
- They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.
- Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike--we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values: Grower Mindset, Sustainable Results, Integrity Above All, Inclusive Teamwork.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
- For MA Applicants – It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. Any employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
