Associate Field Marketing Manager - PacWest

Suntory Global Spirits • Happy Valley, OR

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About The Position

The Associate Field Marketing Manager helps drive disciplined field marketing execution across priority brands, geographies, channels, and customers. The role operates in a transformation environment where priorities, processes, and support structures are evolving, requiring ownership, resourcefulness, prioritization, and effectiveness with leaner support.

The position partners with Field Marketing, Sales, Brand Marketing, distributors, agencies, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate portfolio priorities into commercially grounded, high-quality execution. It helps manage programming, budgets, agency coordination, tracking, and reporting, and supports more consistent ways of working across markets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; marketing, business, communications, or a related field preferred.
• 3–4 years of experience in field marketing, trade marketing, brand marketing, commercial marketing, sales, agency, distributor, CPG, retail, hospitality, or related experience.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables with limited oversight.
• Comfort with budget tracking, reconciliation, procurement processes, reporting, and performance learning.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to synthesize information, clarify next steps, and influence cross-functional partners.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and make practical recommendations in a fast-paced transformation environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel up to approximately 15%.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of on- and off-premise channels, spirits categories, premium brand building, and market execution.
• Experience with Salesforce.com, SAP, or similar systems.

Responsibilities

• Support total portfolio field marketing planning and execution across assigned geographies, channels, and priority brands.
• Translate national and regional priorities into market plans, calendars, and executional deliverables.
• Coordinate sampling, events, activations, point-of-sale materials, trade programming, and promotional materials across markets.
• Coordinate day-to-day agency, vendor, and partner activity, including briefs, timelines, deliverables, recaps, invoices, and reporting expectations.
• Support business intelligence planning, budget tracking, reconciliation, program reporting, and post-program learning across portfolio priorities.
• Identify risks, gaps, trade-offs, and opportunities to simplify or improve execution quality in a lean-support environment.
• Help establish repeatable tools, templates, tracking, and recap standards to improve consistency, speed, and accountability across markets.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level