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Mizkan America, Inc.

Job Title: Senior Associate Brand Manager

Based in Mount Prospect, IL, Mizkan America is a subsidiary of the Mizkan Group, a global, family-owned

company that has been Bringing Flavor to Life for over 220 years. As one of the leading makers of vinegars,

condiments, and sauces in the United States, Mizkan America maintains 12 manufacturing facilities that serve

the retail, food service, specialty-Asian, and food-ingredient trade channels. We are committed to following

our two core principles: continuously challenging the status quo and delivering only the finest products for our

customers. Our leadership seeks out, embraces, and implements ideas for improvement from all its

employees. Transparency and accountability are two key factors that drive our companys overall

management approach.

We are looking for people who are seeking to deliver their best so that we can deliver ours. Above all, were

dedicated to maximizing the potential of our greatest assetsour team members. Thats reflected in our

ongoing commitment to recruit, develop, reward, and retain our talented, multicultural workforce. We hope

to see you as part of our teams future success!

COMMENTS: This job description reflects the assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or

restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

SUMMARY: The Sr. Associate Brand Manager for Mizkan America provides an exciting opportunity to support

the Mizkan America Marketing teams across our branded portfolio including Ragu, Bertolli, Holland House,

Nakano, Mizkan and Angostura Bitters. This unique position will support the Marketing, Innovation, and

Insights & Analytics (CI&A) teams, reporting directly to the Senior Brand Director. This individual is expected to

have strong analytical skills and be proficient in insights/ data mining, synthesis, and consolidation; surfacing

critical insights at the service of actionable recommendations that will propel the business forward. This

individual will have the unique opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects, from quantifying the size of

the prize for innovation to identifying drivers of brand growth, optimizing the marketing/ media mix, and

crafting category assessments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Manage ad-hoc projects as needed support marketing, innovation and CI&A teams on a project-basis

prioritized against business needs

2. Synthesize data & insights from a number of different sources & uncover actionable Insights - make

fact-based recommendations about category, brands, competitors, category, customer, or consumer

trends to enhance brand equity and business performance.

3. Optimize and evolve tools to improve business analytics utilize and optimize tools and resources that

will help monitor brands (and sublines) in an efficient manner. Enable the identification of opportunities

and in-market performance gaps, optimization of executions, and tracking of business KPIs.

4. Support development of Brands Long-Term Growth Strategy Partner with brand leads to support the

development and optimization of the long-term strategic direction for Mizkans brands leveraging and

creating proprietary models and overlaying deep understanding of consumer needs, trends, competitive

landscape, unmet opportunities, and category dynamics.

5. Support the development of both close-in & blue sky innovation partner with brand teams and the

Director of Innovation in the development of innovation platforms rooted in sizable opportunities and

right to win. Driving opportunity sizes and deriving distinctive PODs.

6. Support the development of best-in-class launch plans for innovation par tner with project leads to

help inform the go to market of our innovation with best-in-class plans (media through shelf). Ensuring

synchronization of omni and trade activities. Maximizing efficiencies while delivering against strategic

objectives.

7. Deepen business drivers, category and competitive knowledge - become a subject expert on brand and

category knowledge inclusive of, yet not exclusive to, the following: brand levers, drivers, competitive

threats, and trade executions. Have deep understanding of the business dynamics to help inform

actionable and relevant recommendations that will have a direct impact in the business.

8. Support MAs journey towards Commercial excellence work closely with strategic customer teams to

build sell-in stories, and help build brand strategies to support distribution, packaging, shelving and

merchandising strategies and plans.

9. Demonstrate strong collaboration across relevant stakeholders effectively collaborate with cross

functional t