Associate Ii Product Manager - Mississauga, Canada - McCormick & Company

McCormick & Company

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

McCormick Canada continues its long track record of growth and is a respected leader in the spice, seasoning, flavouring and specialty food industry.

Our consumer products division serves retail grocery customers and emerging channels with Club House, Billy Bee and McCormick products, while our Custom Flavour Solutions division serves food service distributors and other respected food manufacturers across Canada.

McCormick Canada is part of the world leader in spice and seasonings, McCormick & Company Inc.

The Power of People is one of our five pillars. It has been the foundation for McCormick's success for decades. There is something inspiring about working at McCormick.

We have created an unusually dedicated workforce by fostering a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.

Without our employees, our success is not possible. Our commitment to our customers, our consumers and our employees is unsurpassed.

McCormick Canada is looking for an entry level Associate Product (Brand) Manager to join the CPD Marketing team; this role can be based out of either Mississauga, ON or London, ON.

This Associate Product (Brand) Manager will be primarily responsible for leading strategic marketing activities for the Baking Portfolio to achieve long-term business goals.

In addition, this position will have overall responsibility for the innovation strategy for the segment.

Responsibilities of this position include category strategy development, insights, and positioning and, innovation pipeline development that support McCormick's net sales and profit objectives:
Provide analysis of and recommendations relating to product offerings and business results
Prepare and deliver on-going business updates and reports to senior marketing and business management
Identify consumer target. Use insights to develop breakthrough ideas that deliver the defined initiative business objective and delight our target consumer.
Prioritize learning plans to ensure initiatives connect to consumer needs.

Develop, write, test, and optimize consumer and shopper-based concepts and platforms that capture a promise, resolving an unmet or unrecognized need.

Ascertain & size business opportunities.

Contribute to the evolution of 5-year product pipeline and funnel within company's strategic priorities that support equity choices for the brand/category.

Participate in management of product life cycle
Participate in new product business case development, financial forecasting, supply chain, pricing, P&L structure and recommended in-market execution.
Generate breakthrough ideas that inspire to enable technical advantages while exceeding our consumers' wants & needs.
Build, shape & deliver new propositions, partnering with respective functional experts.
Utilize commercialization process to ready projects for commercialization and launch.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelors Degree in Marketing or closely-related business discipline (MBA preferred)
Minimum of 6 months of relevant work experience. Recent graduates with an Internship/Co-Op are encouraged to apply.
Strong understanding of Excel, data analysis, financial analysis, and business planning helpful
Good written communication and presentation skills
Strong leadership, creativity and problem-solving skills with a bias for action
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and motivate a team to achieve results
Demonstrated excellent results in professional positions that indicate interest and capability for the role
Demonstrated success leading and championing business recommendations for senior management
Consumer products experience preferred but not required
Experience leading cross-functional teams a plus
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Throughout the selection process, accommodations for applicants with disabilities are available upon request. Please notify H.R. if required.