associate product manager, Beverage
About The Position
The Associate Product Manager, Beverage, is part of a dynamic, entrepreneurial team responsible for handcrafted refreshment beverages served in Starbucks retail coffeehouses. The role supports disciplined execution across promotions, categories, and product performance, including promotional readiness, project management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination. It also helps develop repeatable approaches for evaluating performance and informing future portfolio decisions. The position supports product objectives and strategy for the Refreshment beverage category and seasonal promotions; researches customer, category, competitive, and operational signals; and translates data and insights into recommendations. It contributes to commercialization from concept to launch, promotional execution and readiness, cross-functional planning, and performance reporting. The role is onsite four days a week.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a role supporting marketing, brand management, product management, commercialization, or operations.
- Strong analytical and reporting skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Ability and willingness to navigate change and ambiguity.
- Ability to work in a matrixed environment and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Embody Starbucks' mission and values.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience working in retail product development.
- Minimum of 1 year of project leadership experience.
- Minimum of 2 years of progressive analytical experience in product or marketing.
Responsibilities
- Support and provide recommendations on product objectives and strategy, including launch timing, placement, pricing, assortment, and promotional cadence for the Refreshment beverage category and seasonal promotions.
- Research customer, category, competitive, and operational signals and translate data and insights into recommendations.
- Represent Beverage in cross-functional forums with Marketing, Planning, Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Finance.
- Support beverage commercialization for the Refreshment category and seasonal promotions from concept to launch, coordinating with partners on feasibility, operations, product development, planning and forecasting, and launch-readiness reviews.
- Provide day-to-day execution support for the Refreshment beverage category and seasonal promotions, including assortment inputs, product and launch documentation, systems management, and cross-functional communication.
- Assist in writing and developing creative briefs focused on customer need-states, category opportunity, operational feasibility, and business potential.
- Support product delivery for promotional windows, including product direction, launch documentation, and inputs into supply chain requirements.
- Maintain cross-functional workback plans, launch trackers, milestone schedules, decision logs, and recap documents.
- Support readiness tracking, issue escalation, and launch documentation by promotion and category.
- Manage promotional inputs and multiple reviews for in-store signage and coffeehouse product communications.
- Build and maintain standardized KPI templates, reporting inputs, meeting cadences, and team operating routines.
- Assist in compiling promotional and category performance readouts.
- Synthesize cross-functional inputs into status updates, risks, required decisions, and recommended next steps.
- Capture portfolio learnings to help clarify what to scale, iterate, stop, and consider for future pipeline development.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic and supplemental life insurance and other voluntary insurance benefits.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Paid parental leave and family expansion reimbursement.
- Paid vacation from date of hire, accrued sick time, eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year.
- Eligible partners may participate in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.) and Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock).
- Incentivized emergency savings and financial well-being tools.
- 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor's degree through Arizona State University's online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan.
- Student loan management resources and access to other educational opportunities.
- Backup care and DACA reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
