Brand Manager
Job Description
Description
Polytek® Development Corp. is a leading manufacturer of mold making and casting materials. Polytek® is currently looking for a highly motivated, experienced, and extremely organized individual to join our rapidly expanding company.
Essential Job Functions
Major tasks and other key responsibilities include:
- Act as a central lead for brand business opportunities including - gathering inputs, analyzing external environments, building contacts/networks to support and grow the private label business.
- Drive a dynamic process for planning and managing various brand business opportunities on a national level that generates sales.
- Develop communication and KPIs for tracking business results.
- Collaborate across business functions and brands (marketing, product, sales, finance, legal, operations, Human Resources, etc.) to gather the right information, pressure test business cases, co-create deliverables, accelerate execution, and unlock value.
- Facilitate Sales and Marketing leadership syncs to other Business Development Managers to ensure team engagement on brand opportunities.
- Deep expertise relationship and expectations of customers.
- Provide support for growing international sales efforts.
- Effective at building relationships, collaborating, and influencing others; experience working with large customers, senior executives, and cross-functional teams.
- Deep expertise in strategy and planning as well as the sales/marketing.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Must be able to sit at a desk for prolonged periods of time and work on a computer.
- Must be able to work in an office environment.
- Must be able to talk, hear and see with vision abilities including close/near, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- Must wear required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when entering manufacturing areas.
- Travel may include up to 10%.
Education And Experience
- Must be able to understand, speak, write and read English.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Sales/Marketing preferred.
- 5 years of experience in E-Commerce preferred.
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Must have the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, attention to detail, analytical, problem-solving and time management skills.
- Amazon Seller Central experience preferred.
- Knowledge of Facebook, Amazon, Google Ads & Reporting.
- Experience forecasting & budgeting across multiple channels/platforms - Inventory Management experience a plus.
- Understanding of email, text, web marketing or analysis of reporting at minimum.
- Basic understanding of SEO/Content Requests.
- Basic understanding of shipping/freight- International experience a plus.
- Experience working with agencies (to outsource Ad Spend, Amazon Operations, etc.).
- New product development or vision to develop new products & markets.
- Strong analytical and financial skills as applied to a marketing organization.
- Can work effectively across a geographically dispersed team.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.