Associate Manager, Customer Planning & Strategy

Associate Manager, Customer Planning & Strategy

Glanbia Performance Nutrition is a global company with a brand portfolio that consists of Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Think!, Amazing Grass each with its own brand essence. From athletes to remote workers, people around the world want to eat well and live healthier, more active lives and we have the products to match

We are seeking a dynamic Associate Manager to join our Customer Planning & Strategy team. This role will be split evenly between brand commercialization and innovation strategy, supporting both established products and new product development across key customers and channels. 

Primary Responsibilities in Customer Planning & Strategy:

• Primary liaison between assigned brand teams and customer teams, ensuring alignment on sales strategy and execution
• Actively support customer sales teams in achieving sales and profit goals through data-driven insights, strategic planning, and executional excellence
• Lead commercialization of brand plans across channels, including assortment, display, pricing, promotion, and shelving
• Guide customer-specific product initiatives (e.g., exclusive items, displays) through the stage gate process
• Develop and maintain sales tools and presentation materials for internal and external use, inclusive of customer presentations, line reviews and innovation sell in
• Support execution of shopper marketing programs that align with brand strategies and drive in-store impact
• Build and leverage relationships with cross functional counterparts including customer account teams, trade development, marketing and finance
• Act as the voice of the customer in innovation planning, partnering with brand and insights teams to shape product propositions and selling stories for assigned brands
• Lead route-to-market and channel strategy discussions for new product launches
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure innovation plans are customer-ready by Gate 4 of the NPD process
• Support customer teams in maximizing growth and share through innovation, including pricing, placement, and promotional strategy

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance or similar
• 4+ years in sales, brand, or channel/trade marketing, or customer strategic planning experience
• Ability to devise persuasive presentations, based on data-driven insights and facts, to gain support for business strategies and/or initiatives internally and externally with customer partners
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate effectively across teams
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail; experience with syndicated data tools (NIQ, SPINS, Tableau) and MS Office

The sports, weight management, & active lifestyle nutrition category is experiencing strong growth and GPN has significantly outperformed the market. GPN has a strong, vertically integrated global manufacturing platform and production capabilities across a range of categories.  Our award-winning performance and lifestyle brands inspire our customers to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals. Whether you want to build muscle, reach peak performance or eat more protein-rich foods we have a product to match. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the annual salary for this role is $70,000 - $100,000 plus an annual bonus. This range may not be applicable to other locations and targeted salary is midpoint of range. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role.

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.