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Energizer Holdings, Inc. Associate Manager, Household Batteries in Saint Louis, Missouri
What you'll love about this job
Fully Remote
Cross Functional Team
Room for Growth
This is Energizer Holdings, Inc.
Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization – we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team. Because we’re a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.
Position Summary
The Associate Manager, Global Marketing – Household Batteries, partners to help create the vision and execute the action plan to achieve brand, share, sales, and profit goals of the household batteries segment. This position supports strategic marketing cycle planning, product innovation development, consumers insights and consumer messaging and acts as an expert for the respective segments from a 4P perspective (product, packaging, pricing and placement) in the lithium, recharge, and carbon zinc segments.
The Associate Brand Manager is a critical member of the global team and will support the Energizer®, Rayovac, and Eveready brands. This role requires strategic thinking, the ability to build close working relationships with a wide variety of cross-functional team members around the world, strong influencing skills, and a high-attention to detail to deliver wins for consumers and customers.
Responsibilities
Develop recommendations and gain alignment to support the overall product strategy aligned with the brand strategy based on company, consumer, competitive, and marketplace dynamics for the lithium, recharge, and carbon zinc segments
Support the development and execution of the 3-year product innovation cycle plan serving as the primary liaison to R&D to ensure alignment, technical capabilities, consumer claims development, substantiation, etc.
Support product initiatives from initial scoping phase through the entire Stage Gate process until final implementation and delivery. Includes cross-functional team leadership, project management, financial reviews, key milestones and critical issues identification, leadership presentations and reviews, etc.
Support and drive collaboration to deliver annual global marketing plans that support product initiatives / key projects to include: consumer rationale, supporting area assets, pricing strategies, marketing guidelines, trade selling stories, and more.
Partner with Consumer Insights team to uncover consumer needs/perceptions as related to the sub-segment, trends, claims, product ideas and build differentiated, relevant opportunities for the brand.
Develop and deliver engaging presentations as part of global to area deployment process
Serve as key knowledge expert and resource for household batteries and associated projects and respond with a sense of urgency to priority internal and external ‘customer’ requests. Seek to build knowledge and internal relationships to assist in responsiveness.
Facilitate communication between Global and Area Marketing by developing strong relationships with Activation Leaders through regular contact, securing appropriate feedback on cycle plans, claims, etc.
Lead some key product initiatives and work associated with the Global Marketing Household batteries segment.
May also perform additional duties as assigned
CPG background preferred
Exposure and understanding of global marketplace dynamics and considerations
Previous experience in retail and/or strategic consumer communication planning and development
What we are looking for
4-year degree preferred with an emphasis on Business, Marketing, or equivalent experience.
4-6 years of brand marketing experience
English proficiency required
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
Outstanding project management skills with the ability to handle multiple projects and meet cost, quality, and schedule expectations
Strong ability to think critically and analytically
Strong ability to influence and build relationships
Ability to take initiative and self-direct
Ability to effectively work cross-functionally and communicate to internal and external teams
Produce high-quality work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
Proactive and solution-oriented with a strong sense of urgency
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Nimble and agile approach to adjust to changing consumer preferences and business strategies
Come join us!
Energizer is an equal opportunity employer, and we prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.