Brand Manager Planning

The role

The Brand Manager Planning leads the end-to-end annual and long-range planning process for the Americas Marketing organization. This role drives alignment across stakeholders and manages the marketing planning ecosystem to ensure brand plans meet business objectives.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end project management of the annual and long-range planning cycle for US marketing plans.
• Build the master timeline, milestones and cross-functional workstream plans.
• Design, maintain and govern the planning toolkit used across Marketing.
• Consolidate and report portfolio health tracking including distribution, pricing, velocity, share and margin.
• Coordinate the quarterly business review cycle end to end.
• Build the fact base that defines the brand growth roadmap by synthesizing market data and consumer research.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in brand, portfolio or commercial planning within Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) or a comparable consumer environment
• 3+ years of experience in project managing cross-functional workstreams and annual planning cycles
• Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel (pivot tables, lookups, scenario modeling)
• Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
• Working knowledge of syndicated data platforms (Nielsen / Circana) and Power BI
• Experience with New Product Development (NPD) launch planning, Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) portfolio analysis, syndicated data (Nielsen / Circana) and building executive-level presentations

Nice to have

• Bachelor's Degree in the field of Marketing, Business Administration, Finance or a related field
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation

About the company

Monster Energy is a brand of risk takers, trailblazers, and gamechangers. They describe themselves as raw, unfiltered, and unconventional.