Associate Marketing Manager - Retail Case Ready
About The Position
The Associate Marketing Manager, Case Ready, supports the execution of marketing strategies and priorities across Case Ready within Cargill Food North America’s Retail channel. The role partners closely with the Senior Marketing Manager and cross-functional teams to activate category strategies, advance innovation initiatives, and deliver customer-focused marketing solutions. It applies market, customer, and consumer understanding to translate strategic direction into actionable plans that drive business performance and support category growth. The position is hybrid and located in Wayzata, Minnesota, or Wichita, Kansas. It requires on-site work and minimum travel based on business need.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 4 years of work experience in a similar role.
- Experience translating insights and data into clear recommendations and action plans.
- Proven experience collaborating cross-functionally.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in food, retail, or consumer-packaged goods marketing.
- Experience supporting marketing strategy execution in a cross-functional, matrixed environment.
- Experience navigating complex organizational structures and influencing without direct authority.
Responsibilities
- Lead execution of the Retail Case Ready category marketing strategy in alignment with broader business objectives, using research and interpretation to identify issues or problems.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to generate and apply insights about customer needs and strategies, market trends, consumer behaviors, and competitive dynamics to inform product and category decisions and priorities.
- Support innovation, new product development, and co-creation of customer solutions, including integrated pipeline development, concept ideation, business assessments, and coordinated project execution.
- Partner with R&D, Business, and other cross-functional teams to advance innovation concepts from ideas through commercialization.
- Develop and activate differentiated value propositions to improve the customer experience for the assigned category.
- Support customer engagement plans by crafting selling stories and marketing materials tailored to specific customer needs.
- Support the development and execution of marketing programs, launches, promotions, and customer-facing materials.
- Track innovation progress, timelines, and key milestones to keep initiatives aligned with strategic priorities and on schedule.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision and escalate only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit program, including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
