Customer Marketing Manager

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Date: Feb 4, 2025

Location: Kettering, OH, US, 45429 Lake Zurich, IL, US, 60047

Company: accobrands

 

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Job Summary

ACCO Brands is seeking a Customer Marketing Manager to support our national retail accounts. As a member of the ACCO Brands U.S. Sales team, this role will work with business teams and sales to build winning programs for our distribution partners. The Customer Marketing Manager will identify opportunities in new products, competitive displacement targets, customer assortment gaps, and opportunities to build compelling B2B sales stories. Given the nature of this functional area, there is considerable linkage between the marketing function of the organization in addition to key customer interaction.

Responsibilities

  • Go to Market Commercialization Expert:
    • Identifies channel-specific product and promotional opportunities for assigned account(s).  These efforts should fully consider brand marketing, product marketing and any new product development work.
    • Work cross functionally in preparing presentation assets and participating in customer sales presentations.  Creates and coordinates presentation materials, samples and concept boards necessary for specific account meetings.
    • Develops competitive review analysis for specific accounts by monitoring competitive product and trend performance at the customer and in the channel.
    • Assists with analysis of product performance providing recommendations of new items and categories.
    • Customer specific P&L management across all internal business.
  • Enhance our distribution partner’s ACCO program performance: 
    • Partners with sales on the marketing, merchandising and promotions needed in support of driving sales of corporate brands.
    • Interacts with Merchandising peers in developing customer-compliant merchandising programs for account-specific products and programs.
    • Shopper and Partnership marketing lead for assigned accounts.  Ensuring our digital investments with partners align with business strategy and maximize ROI.
  • Tactically project manage program implementation:
    • Leads weekly customer meetings with cross-functional teams to ensure flawless execution of programs both on shelf and online.
    • Works cross functionally with product marketing and operational teams to ensure timely information is provided, meeting customer complete and on-time measures.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in Business, Marketing, or a related area of study is required. 
  • 3-5 years of experience in a marketing or sales role is required, preferably with a CPG company dealing with Omni- Channel customers. 
  • Previous experience with managing a team is ideal. 
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills – must be comfortable presenting to accounts and senior leadership. 
  • Strategic reasoning and critical thinking – analyze wide range of inputs, identify opportunities, develop strategy
  • Ideal candidate must have the ability to work cross functionally within a matrix organization, influencing decisions, driving the business and inspiring cross-functional teams. 
  • Strong analytical and project management skills. 
  • Must be detail-oriented and self-motivated. 
  • Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit. 
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite, specifically PowerPoint and Excel. 
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time. 

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About Us:

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a PowerA® gaming controller, a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of over $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

Apply now and build a successful future with ACCO Brands.

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More information about ACCO Brands, the Home of Great Brands Built by Great People, can be found at www.accobrands.com.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer

At ACCO Brands, we are committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical and mental disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. ACCO Brands believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

 

AODA

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities will be provided in all parts of the recruiting process as required under the ACCO Brands Canada AODA policy.  Applicants are asked to make their needs known in advance.


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