Marketing Assistant

Glanbia Performance Nutrition is the number one sports nutrition company in the world, with leading brands in performance and lifestyle nutrition. Our mission is to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals. GPN’s brand portfolio consists of – Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Think!, Amazing Grass and SlimFast, each with its own brand essence.

 

The focus of the role is on the flagship Optimum Nutrition brand, the world’s #1 sports nutrition brand. We are hiring a Marketing Assistant  due to an internal promotion! You will organize, coordinate, and support activities centered on requests from the International Region teams and assist centrally-driven Marketing initiatives from the Global team.  This is a great opportunity to get exposure to multiple projects, teams and markets within the marketing function.

 

 

Duties and Responsibilities

Collaborate with Regional Marketing teams on Brand initiatives spanning Packaging Design, Portfolio Management and Innovation. This includes primary responsibility over International NPD, renovations, and relabeling projects (20%).

• Support the Senior Brand Manager (SBM) on management of the full Global Marketing budget by completing all operational elements of the budget process and monitoring the budget throughout the year (20%).
• Support brand creative evolution - highlight best practice in market activity to SBM and Senior stakeholders, track athlete usages for all markets and manage asset uploads onto our internal asset management system (15%).
• Serve as global marketing liaison for frequent ad-hoc requests from regions, incl. requests for creative assets, Business Objects data pulls, Consumer reviews analysis, etc. (10%).
• Serve as global marketing liaison for the North American Optimum Nutrition Marketing team for any global consideration with relevant New Product Development (NPD), reformulation, relabel requests (10%).
• Working with North American Marketing, R&D, regulatory, supply chain, etc. to ensure new formulas are globally compliant where necessary and communicating to regions (10%).
• Support Global projects and the creation of new brand assets with full market roll out (10%).
• Responsible for procurement requisitions (5%).
• The varying nature of this role is such that there will be a requirement (workload dependent) to take on the managing of new and emerging projects on an on-going basis.

 

 

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications or related field.
• Internship experience or 1+ years of experience within marketing or brand
• Knowledge of SAP and Ariba helpful
• Proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Genuine interest and excellent knowledge of the category, its products, usage occasions, target market, trends, etc.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and clearly establish and maintain priorities.

 

The Global Marketing team and is led by the Chief Brand Officer.  You will report to a Senior Manager located in Ireland and this role will be based out of the Downers Grove, IL office.  You will gather information and requirements from other cross-functional team members (global marketing team, Creative Services team and Product Supply), track project activities and escalate any breakdowns in process or timing. In particular, the Marketing Assistant will have to engage with stakeholders in the area of international NPD, renovation and relabeling projects.

 

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

 

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.