Sr. Brand Director, Home Fragrance

Newell Brands•Deerfield, MA

15d

About The Position

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact—supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day. The Home Fragrance Brands include the legacy brand Yankee Candle, WoodWick and Chesapeake Bay. Home Fragrance is a growth priority segment for Newell brands. All brands operate in both traditional food and mass retail markets as well as in Owned Channel stores which makes this a unique segment within the Newell brands portfolio Position Summary: The Sr. Director, Global Brand Marketing position is a critical global leadership role at Newell with responsibility for the Home Fragrance portfolio ($600M+ annual revenue) and direct leadership of global end to end marketing. The ideal candidate will bring 12+ years of brand management and innovation leadership experience combined with proven ability to drive omnichannel growth in multiple sales channels. The Sr. Director is a broad business leader effectively leading a cross-functional team and strategically influencing the global team and broader organization.

Requirements

A four-year college degree, MBA preferred.
12+ years of brand management experience including deep marketing, innovation and general management experience.
Proven ability in talent management; Ability to attract and retain top talent; Prior experience leading teams and coaching for continued growth and success
Prior experience in fashion, beauty or a trends driven business
Industry experience in CPG and hardlines, with proven ability to be successful with both.
Prior demonstration of behaving as a “Servant Leader” of being a brand steward, building and implementing brand architecture and driving brand value across all consumer channels.
Classical brand builder with strong digital marketing skills (DTC, eCommerce, Retailer Media Networks)
Deep experience gleaning consumer insights and leveraging analytics of primary and secondary research, emerging trends, POS results and competitor/category actions to drive leadership brand sales.
Proven success leading as a servant leader, seeking the input of the team while guiding everyone to be better at what they do and how they perform.
Prior experience with pricing strategy and able to lead the organization in setting price, promotional strategy and trade strategy. Demonstrated ability to set, direct and lead trade marketing strategy in partnership with sales and VP Brand Management.
Experience growing brands in an eCommerce channel including launching innovation for the channel, achieving first page position and setting media strategy in partnership with a media leader or customer expert.
Prior P&L management experience including complexity reduction, launching innovation to drive revenue and managing for margin growth
Demonstrated success leveraging analytics to identify business growth opportunities and translating this into revenue or market share improvement. Able to teach, mentor and grow junior marketers in their ability to leverage data for decision making.

Responsibilities

Owns delivering global P&L commitments
Directly manages US P&L and responsible for delivering annual financial commitments
Lead the cross functional brand leadership team to deliver annual brand goals
Be the steward of the global brand positioning and work with local countries and regions to ensure the global brand positioning is consistent across the world
Lead development of the short and long term global brand strategy; Partner with countries and regions to help them adopt the global brand strategy into their market with only slight changes to fit the nuances of the market
Draft and execute the annual brand plan enrolling your direct reports and cross functional team to build and execute the plan
Lead the cross functional team to monitor DSMP (Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising, Pricing) targets and ensure achievement of targets
Own the global brand architecture; Partner with local countries and regions to help them shift fully into the approved global brand architecture
Be the enforcer of the global brand identity guidelines in all markets; Protect the brand’s immutable core assets and core packaging architecture ensuring all markets comply with the brand identity guidelines in forms of internal and external communication
Utilize the consumer segmentation to establish a brand consumer target, brand muse and media target
Partner with insights to create a global consumer segmentation model that can be applied worldwide; Direct local countries and regions on the correct targets for the brand
Own the creation and execution of a 3 year global innovation pipeline
Lead the innovation process globally partnering with countries and regions to ensure their needs are met and appropriate innovation is launch to grow market share worldwide
Lead the global annual brand planning process with input from the brand building marketing team; Brand building will own current year marketing plans, promotion and media
Be responsible for timely development of all core assets needed to support a new item launch for omni channel deployment
Approves brand pricing strategy recommendations created by Brand Finance and Revenue Growth Management
Be an expert at consumer understanding. Partner with consumer insights to determine the appropriate consumer research needed to support business strategies and deliver winning propositions to market.