Associate Category Manager - Dunkin

Inspire Brands, Inc.$79K — $133K *
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-year degree in Business or Marketing preferred
  • 2-4 years of work experience in a relevant field
  • Experience in food and beverage or CPG is desirable
  • Creative and strategic thinker
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Project management expertise
  • Financial acumen with problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

  • Manage food product innovation pipeline activities
  • Identify product trends through research and industry events
  • Collaborate with culinary and consumer insights teams for product development
  • Evaluate new product cost models to meet margin requirements
  • Prepare business cases for product alignment with leadership
  • Coordinate product launch activities with cross-functional teams
  • Lead post-launch analysis to assess product performance

Benefits

  • Conducive work environment within a cross-functional team
  • Opportunities for professional growth in a leading brand
  • Involvement in innovative product development and marketing
  • Potential to shape menu offerings and consumer experience
  • Access to industry insights and competitive analysis tools
Full Job Description

Work withcross-functional team to bring product offerings from ideation to testing, and then through launch and post-launch analysis. Supportinnovation pipeline development, menu renovations, andcalendar planningfor Dunkin'.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • ManageFood (Savory, Donuts & Bakery) innovation pipeline through the following activities:

  • Identifyand stay on top of product trends through trend tours, secondary research, conferences/trade shows, and partnership with competitive intelligence team

  • Partner withculinaryteam to ideate product innovation. Draft concept development briefs to start the product development process.Manage agendas and recaps for weekly meetings. 

  • Partner with consumer insights team to evaluate opportunity size anddeterminepositioning. Writeideaand concept screeners to gauge consumer interest.

  • Evaluate new product cost model toensure key margin requirements are met

  • Pull together business case including insights, competitive landscape, and target audience to align XF leaders on product kickoff

  • Plan out the calendar and get products ready for launch through the following activities:

  • Work with XF team of R&D, operations, supply chain, demand planning, QA, commercialization and legal to ensure products are ready for launch

  • Manage updates in the product tracker capturing all product details

  • Partner with operations team on in-store testing and evaluating product performance against set criteria

  • Partner with brand marketing team to helpidentifywhich products to launch based on learnings through screeners or testing

  • Assistin menu presentations to keyfranchisee and marketingstakeholders leveragingkey business case details from pipeline project work to drive menu decisions Lead throughand submitproduct readiness materials including readiness templates, POS forms, profitability forms, marketing input forms, app forms, and product one-pagers. Review all outputfrom cross-functional teams. 

  • Write product briefs to kick off XF partners for agency briefingsto initiatethe marketing communications process for new products

  • Identifyand resolve project-related risks and issues throughout process

  • Lead throughpost-launch activities including partnering with business analytics to measure and analyze the impact of programs(including long-term categorygrowth opportunities), andassistingin field and franchisee communication and collaboration

Requirements

  • 4 Year Degree in Business and/or Marketing Preferred

  • 2-4years total work experience. Food and beverage or CPG industry experience preferred but not required, especially in marketing, product development, or consumer insights roles. 

  • Creative and strategic thinking

  • Strong communications and interpersonal skills

  • Ability to work individually and with large cross-functional teams

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, multi-task, prioritize, and be detail oriented

  • Project management

  • Financial acumen

  • Problem-solving agility

  • Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills

Salary: 79,953.75 - 133,256.25 per year

The salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual placement within this range will vary based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, and location.

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