Perdue Farms

Marketing Manager

Perdue Farms$80K — $110K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field.
  • 5+ years of progressive marketing experience, ideally within CPG, food, brand, or category marketing.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects from concept through execution and analysis.
  • Experience working with performance and market data sources (e.g., Nielsen, Circana/IRI).
  • Familiarity with AI tools to streamline work processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own KPI tracking and insights by collaborating with internal teams to monitor key metrics.
  • Build and refine activation measurement plans, recommending next steps based on performance evaluation.
  • Proactively identify risks and opportunities, supporting recommendations with data.
  • Produce concise monthly and quarterly business performance updates for leadership decision-making.
  • Improve reporting tools to enhance clarity, accuracy, and speed, ensuring effective communication of KPIs.
  • Integrate AI tools where appropriate to enhance reporting and analysis processes.
  • Develop and manage launch planning and execution across products and marketing initiatives.

Benefits

  • Work in a collaborative environment that encourages innovation and creativity.
  • Opportunity to drive impactful marketing strategies in a dynamic industry.
  • Leadership support and engagement in your professional development.
  • Flexible work arrangements due to travel requirements.
Full Job Description
Summary

Shape the future of our brands and drive growth through innovative marketing strategies and product initiatives. As a Marketing Manager Retail, you will lead the development and execution of market strategies and business plans while managing the launch of new products, packaging innovations, and integrated marketing programs. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to bring ideas to market, manage key projects, and deliver initiatives that strengthen brand performance and support business objectives. This role is ideal for a strategic, results-oriented marketer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys turning insights into impactful solutions.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Marketing, this position is based in Denver, CO and includes up to 25% travel.

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities
  • Own KPI tracking and insights by collaborating with RGM and Category Management teams to monitor category and brand KPIs, maintain a strong point of view on category landscape changes, and translate trends into business implications.
  • Build and refine activation measurement plans, evaluate performance against goals, and recommend clear next steps such as optimizing, expanding, stopping, or testing initiatives.
  • Proactively surface risks and opportunities and propose data-supported actions.
  • Produce monthly and/or quarterly business performance updates with concise insights, recommendations, timeline health, and risk mitigation plans tailored for leadership decision-making.
  • Improve reporting tools and templates to increase clarity, accuracy, and speed, and document KPI definitions and reporting cadence.
  • Integrate AI tools were appropriate to enhance reporting and analysis.
  • Marketing Strategy & Execution.
  • Own launch planning from brief through post-launch by developing timelines and workback plans for product launches, renovations, marketing asset projects, and packaging development, including defining success metrics and capturing after-action learnings.
  • Partner cross-functionally across Marketing, Sales, Operations, Research and Development, Finance, and external partners to drive alignment, facilitate decision-making, clarify ownership and next steps, and escalate blockers to maintain momentum.
  • Develop positioning and messaging by translating product features into compelling benefits and differentiated, consumer-relevant messaging in partnership with stakeholders.
  • Oversee campaign execution, including briefs, reviews, and approvals, to ensure campaigns are on brand, aligned with strategy, and delivered on time.
  • Create and maintain high-impact marketing presentations and product/program materials that clearly articulate value propositions, competitive differentiation, and activation plans while keeping the consumer at the forefront.
  • Collaborate with Sales leadership to anticipate customer questions and objections and ensure materials support customer-specific needs.
  • Provide regular updates to Sales on program status, timelines, and key talking points to ensure accurate and consistent customer communication.


Minimum Education and Experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of progressive marketing experience, ideally within CPG, food, brand, or category marketing.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects, including launches, campaigns, renovations, and sales enablement, from concept through execution and post-analysis.


Preferred Education and Experience
  • Experience working with performance and market data sources such as Nielsen, Circana/IRI, Mintel, Numerator, or similar tools to inform strategy and evaluate results.
  • Experience using AI tools to streamline work processes.


Physical Requirements and Environmental Factors
  • Work in a primarily sedentary office environment with occasional movement between offices or buildings.
  • Move light equipment or supplies as needed.
  • Access files, supplies, and equipment as required.
  • Work in an open-partitioned, cubicle environment.


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About Perdue Farms

Perdue Farms is the parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, based in Salisbury, Maryland. Perdue Foods is a major chicken, turkey, and pork processing company in the United States. Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top United States grain companies. Perdue Farms has 2021 annual sales of $8 billion.
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