Manager - Brand Marketing

About the position

This position will be a telecommuting role that can be done out of Modesto, CA and Dallas, TX. This role will have up to a 25% annual travel requirement. As a Brand Manager you will oversee marketing activities with a 12-18 month horizon for assigned brand(s). Provides mentoring, coaching to team members in executing marketing strategies consistent with established P&L objectives and brand role. Leads Agile marketing and IMP processes for assigned brand(s). Contributes to the development and execution of OGSM brand level strategies.

Responsibilities

• Leverages mastery of business drivers, relevant consumer, customer and channel trends and insights to lead assigned brand(s) against annual business objectives.
• Oversees the development and maintenance of brand strategies for assigned brands; manages the execution of established growth and profit objectives; seeks out innovative ways to continuously build brand(s) to obtain or maintain category leadership.
• Recommends new trends and competitive activities to seek out innovative ways to build channel effectiveness and efficiency.
• Acts as the Outcome Owner through the agile marketing process.
• Owns the process and timeline for the Integrated Marketing Planning Process (IMP) from Business Review through activation and optimization to ensure the brand meets the organizational objectives.
• Develops the IMP brief in collaboration with the Marcomm Planner and supervises the development of the activation briefs.
• Contributes to the development of the Brand Strategic Positioning (BSP), helps to identify optimal consumer design target and consumption target, Brand Universe and/or brand positioning.
• Participates in the execution of strategies in support of the OGSM's.
• Owns the A&P budget for assigned brand(s), including commerce and portions of the overhead allocation.
• Oversees the development and implementation of the creative and communication strategy, campaign idea, communication plan (including media plan) and the development, creation, deployment and optimization of the campaign assets.
• Oversees relationships with outside agencies ensuring alignments with brand goals and objectives.
• Outlines and evaluates current and proposed product attributes and effectively communicates consumer product needs to the Winemaking team.
• Develops staff to possess transferable brand marketing skill sets which can be applied successfully in other Gallo business units.
• Nurtures high-level marketing skills possessed by staff, identifies areas of improvement and provides mentoring and coaching to increase execution level.
• Contributes to the overall development of policies and procedures; changes systems, policies, and procedures to positively impact brands, the Business Unit and the Brand Marketing function.
• Responsible for understanding and complying with applicable quality, environmental and safety regulations.

Requirements

• Master's degree plus 6 years of communications, finance, marketing, military, operations, supply chain/supply planning, process development, new product development, project management, process engineering, or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of communications, finance, marketing, supply chain/supply planning, process development, new product development, project management, process engineering, or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor's degree plus 6 years of Gallo experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Master's degree plus 4 years of Gallo experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR High School Diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 12 years of communications, finance, marketing, military, operations, supply chain/supply planning, process development, new product development, project management, process engineering or sales experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Experience effectively presenting information to top management, public groups and boards of directors.
• Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
• Required to spend 25% of time traveling in-market in order to conduct job duties.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Required to be 18 years or older.

Nice-to-haves

• Master of Business Administration degree plus 9 years of Gallo brand marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• CPG or Alcohol beverage brand marketing experience.
• Multiple Gallo marketing rotations.
• Prior supervisory/managerial experience.
• Brand Marketing experience.
• Luxury marketing experience.
• On Premise Spirits experience.
• Ambassador Management experience.
• Experiential marketing campaign development and execution experience.
• Tasting room management experience (wine or spirits).
• Direct to consumer sales experience (alcohol beverage or luxury consumer goods a plus).
• Experience training and developing junior level brand marketers in executing brand and organizational objectives.
• Experience managing business operations and leveraging basic finance and accounting principles.
• Skilled in reading, analyzing and interpreting common scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.
• Experience responding to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies or members of the business community.
• Experience writing speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Skilled in interpreting an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Experience performing work that is complex and varied in nature, requiring frequent evaluation, originality or ingenuity.
• Skilled in the use of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS database at an intermediate level; IRI, Brio and Spectra at a basic level.

Benefits

• This position includes a competitive benefits package.