Associate Brand Manager, US Pain

As an Associate Brand Manager, you will act as a business leader to drive growth on your brand through strategies & executions with a truly national impact. Just like any entrepreneur or general manager, you will be responsible for the key drivers of business performance, such as: 
 

Key Responsibilities 

• Developing and implementing a multi-year strategic business plan for your brand. 

• Diagnosing and analyzing business performance to ensure sufficient new product tracking + post campaign reporting to inform activation planning. 

• Partnering with Consumer Business Intelligence partner to uncover insights about the category, competitor & retail customers that drive business recommendations. 

• Launching new products and building comprehensive go-to-market plans (including pricing and merchandising strategies). 

• Contributing insights on business cases inputs for longer-term innovation pipeline. 

• Crafting marketing communications (eg. Sampling, Healthcare Professionals, Consumer Promotions planning, Budget management, R&D claims, etc.) and impactful media plans with external agency partners, the Content & Communications team and the Megabrand team. 

• Own workflow for foundational display artwork and claims approval process as well as partner with team on forecasting inputs. 

• Collaborating with cross-functional partners including Customer Strategy, Innovation, Sales, Finance, Regulatory, Legal, Global, Supply Chain and Demand Planning to coordinate team activities/projects and attain short-long term sales and profit commitments. 

What we are looking for 

Required Qualifications 

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree required; preferably in Marketing/Business or a related field. 

• 2+ year of experience in brand management, marketing or operations business analytics

• Experience working on new product forecasting, insights gathering, and business case development. 

• Experience collaborating with cross‑functional partners in a team‑based environment. 

• Strategy and data are the core of everything we do, so strong critical thinking and analytical skills are required. 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel. 

• Availability to travel up to 10%

Desired Qualifications 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to bring out the best in others. 

• Strong attention to detail and organized thinking. 

• Comfort learning new tools, processes, and ways of working. 

• Curious, problem‑solving mindset with a willingness to ask questions and test ideas. 

• Experience with tools such as Nielsen and Numerator for data analysis. Well versed in MS Excel & PowerPoint