In marketing, you’ll have the opportunity to work on all aspects of the brand and portfolio you manage, including consumer insights, advertising, consumer promotion, shopper marketing, new products, sales, operations and finance. As a member of this team, your responsibilities can include leading the development of integrated marketing efforts, leading advertising and packaging development, creating and executing media strategies and plans, championing new products, advancing consumer insights and brand strategy, and collaborating with sales teams to develop strategic customer partnerships. You will be energized by your work because your contributions will make a difference.

Johnsonville, LLC

Associate Brand Manager – Breakfast Sausage

Position Overview:

Johnsonville is committed to becoming the "Best Company in the World". The successful candidate for this position will drive profitable growth for our Breakfast Sausage Business, within a culture that embraces change and empowers members. You will build sustaining and collaborative relationships with cross functional members across the organization and with key customers. If you are driven by a strong curiosity, are results oriented and seek to uncover key insights to bring forward new business ideas, this will be an ideal role for you.

Our Approach to Work: Johnsonville was built on the premise that our business should build our members and provide opportunities to help them fully develop their God-given talents. We believe face-to-face interaction and time in the office is crucial for member development and an important enabler of our team-centric culture. We also know that flexibility is key to managing the demands of work and personal life, and we respect that some work is best done away from the office. Our Flexible Work program offers several different options to fit your needs, with most office positions offering hybrid work structures. More details on this position’s requirements and our Flexible Work program will be shared during the interview process.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic brand planning, both near-term and long-term, category and brand analysis, brand development and activation and strong collaboration with cross functional team.
• Assist the Senior Brand Manager of Breakfast Sausage in supporting brand and organizational strategies and objectives.
• Develop products that delight consumers and extends the gap vs. key competitors, while also building profitable, growing businesses.
• Ownership and P&L responsibilities for specific segments within Fresh Breakfast.

Key Deliverables for this position:

• Lead in the development of near term/short term planning as well as long term vision to drive profitable growth for the Fresh Breakfast business.
• Leading voice on key consumer, category and competitive issues. Use brand, industry and consumer information resources to identify business issues and opportunities and to develop strategic and programming recommendations to achieve brand goals.
• Lead integrated business planning for Fresh Breakfast. Work with Marketing Communications team to drive cost effectiveness and deliver ROI on all consumer initiatives.
• Responsible for on-going analysis supporting brand initiatives. Provide timely and comprehensive analysis of objectives, execution, future implications and recommendations.
• Price and promotion strategy that positions Johnsonville for profitable share growth.
• Work closely with cross functional team members (e.g. sales, R&D, agency partners, etc.) ensuring alignment and activation of brand strategy.
• Small “i” Innovation that keeps the business newsworthy and grows share of shelf

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required; MBA preferred
• 1-3 years of marketing experience preferred
• Positive and enthusiastic, consistently pushes creativity and innovation
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve, create new business and/or elevate existing business to higher levels of performance
• Collaborative and can deliver strong results in close partnership with others across work areas, functions and geographies
• Innate curiosity as well as strong analytic capabilities, ability to leverage data to generate insights and drive evidence-based decision making
• Action oriented, with the ability to set priorities and achieve goals
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, acts with a high degree of integrity, humility and personal ownership

Coach for this position: Sr. Brand Manager

(We don’t have bosses at Johnsonville. We have Coaches. They are there to help you develop your talents. They cannot make you run laps.)

Location: Global Headquarters, Sheboygan Falls, WI (Our office is about an hour north of Milwaukee)

Flexible Work Schedule: Opportunity for Hybrid schedule after training; Summer Hours

Memorial Day through Labor Day (half day Fridays)

Travel: As needed, less than 20%

Member Status: Fulltime, Salaried

(At Johnsonville, you are not an employee. You are a Member and, yes, Membership has its privileges – like the ability to buy sausage at great discounts. Our more traditional benefits are great, too.)

Referral Bonus: Refer a new member and you’re BOTH eligible for a $1,000 referral reward (paid out in increments over the new hire’s first 6 months of service)!

About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 3,000 Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

External candidates: Apply on-line only at: careers.johnsonville.com

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

We value the diversity of our workforce and we embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment. M/F/Vet/Disability

Johnsonville values the service Veterans and their family members have given to our country. We support the hiring of returning service members and military spouses.