Trade Marketing Manager LATAM Job Description: The Customer Marketing Manager serves as the liaison between Marketing & Sales teams providing the "Voice of the Customer" within the internal organization while serving as "Voice of the Brands" to our customers and external partners. The Customer Marketing Manager plays a critical role in driving brand performance at our customers. This role is part of a broader marketing team consisting of Customer, Consumer, and Shopper marketing. You'll serve as a strategic thought partner for the sales team as they generate joint business plans with key customers. They must be skilled with turning insights into opportunities and influencing customers to support the growth of our Mars Products.
What are we looking for? Bachelors Degree in a business field or related area of study.3+ years of experience in: field sales, internal sales or customer marketing.Microsoft Suite proficiency.Ability to travel between 10-15% of the time while in role. What will be your key responsibilities? Help support an organizational capability in customer centricity, enable the sales team for selling and executional success, and represent the voice of customer/sales internally.Bring company and category strategies to life in the marketplace via strong working relationships with sales teams and critical customers.Influence future innovation pipeline & programs based on channel insights.Provide key analysis in facilitating new item distribution forecasts by channel/customer.Drive sales plans around assortment, merchandising, pricing and shelving for our brands, monitoring and assisting in the delivery of top-line and bottom line commitments from sales perspective.Assist in planning, development and presentation of sales & brand materials at all key Trade Shows and Customer Collaboration Planning sessions, ensuring our sales strategies and brand initiatives are well represented.Lead the development of high quality and fact-based Selling Stories and Ready to Sell (RTS) materials. What can you expect from Mars? Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus. Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
About Us Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's, SNICKERS, TWIX, MILKY WAY, DOVE, PEDIGREE, ROYAL CANIN, WHISKAS, EXTRA, ORBIT, 5, SKITTLES, BEN'S ORIGINAL, and COCOAVIA. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world's pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals, BluePearl, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA and Pet Partners. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 140,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.
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