Sr Associate Product Manager - Customer Marketing
About The Position
McCormick is hiring a full-time Sr Associate Customer Marketing Manager for its US Foodservice team. The role supports the development and execution of customer marketing campaigns and annual marketing plans within established priorities. It manages defined workstreams and smaller customer programs, coordinates cross-functional inputs, and develops analysis, presentations, sales stories, and marketing materials to support customer and business objectives. The successful candidate is a critical thinker and creative problem solver who collaborates across Marketing, Sales, customers, brokers, and cross-functional teams. The role makes day-to-day execution decisions within assigned work and escalates strategic decisions, material priority conflicts, and senior-level commitments to the appropriate leader. The position is hybrid (50/50) at McCormick’s Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or a related discipline.
- Minimum of two years of relevant marketing/sales experience in Food Service, CPG, or Food Manufacturing supporting comparable customer marketing work.
- Experience coordinating or supporting multiple projects and defined workstreams.
- Ability to prepare clear analysis, reporting, presentations, and marketing materials.
- Strong communication, teamwork, organization, critical-thinking, and creative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Marketing, Sales, customer-facing, and cross-functional partners.
- Sound judgment to work within defined priorities and escalate strategic decisions appropriately.
Nice To Haves
- Foodservice industry knowledge.
- Understanding of B2B foodservice marketing, advertising, business and brand planning, and promotional activities.
- Understanding of the industry sector and competitive landscape.
Responsibilities
- Support development and execution of customer marketing campaigns and annual marketing plans aligned with segment and brand growth objectives.
- Manage defined campaign workstreams and smaller customer programs across relevant national-account, distributor, eCommerce, and non-commercial channels.
- Coordinate day-to-day inputs from global marketing, culinary, market research, Sales/brokers, Strategic Business Management, and Brand teams.
- Support customer-facing creative development, sales stories, and customer-specific initiatives and business objectives.
- Build business presentations and supporting materials for brokers, customers, senior leadership, and internal reviews.
- Assist with responses to customer insight and innovation requests by creating appropriate marketing materials.
- Perform campaign and program analysis and reporting; identify findings and prepare optimization recommendations for Product Manager or leadership review.
- Maintain effective working relationships with assigned customer and channel contacts within defined workstreams.
- Track multiple assigned projects, communicate progress and issues, and escalate strategic decisions, material conflicts, and commitments outside the assigned scope.
- Support Marketing and Sales objectives through reliable execution, analysis, communication, and teamwork.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and incentive bonus eligibility.
- Career growth opportunities.
- Flexibility and support for diverse life stages and choices.
- Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life, and disability benefits.
- Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support.
- 401(k) and profit-sharing plans.
- McCormick Dividend Program eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
