Marketing Director

The Marketing Director will serve as a key business leader who will inspire the marketing team and drive brand portfolio management, consumercommunicationsand new product innovation launches, always incorporating a consumer-centric perspective. The Director willbe responsible for planning,development and implementation of marketing strategy, communications, innovation,renovation and portfolio management to exceed stated volume and profit objectives.

The Marketing Director will oversee all aspects of Top Ramen®across all platforms, formats and sub-brands under Top Ramen.

Consumer Insights and Business Acumen:

• Displays a deep understanding of the consumer and drives aconsumerfirst mentality within the organization.

• Understands relevant marketplace dynamics and other key issues that help the team in the development of the brand's marketing mix (e.g., product quality, pricing, promotions, and distribution).

• Analyzes category, brand, competitive and consumer trends to drive insights into action.

• Has a pulse on trends and category landscape that can influence product development pipelines.

• Accountable for analyzing multiple sources of data effectively to extract insights, find opportunities and risks, and take strategic actions on your brands. Includes POS data (e.g.IRI monthly), shipments, consumerresearchand 3rdparty data.

• Able to turn data into implications and actions for the brand.

Base Brand/Portfolio Management:

• Develop strategic brand plans and translate strategies into annual marketing plans and programs in an effort toexceed stated volume and profit objectives

• Works collaboratively with the team and cross functional partners,leveraging the knowledge andexpertiseof others to meet brand objectives.

• Works with the Sales Management and R&D teams to prioritize projects and related opportunities based on size of price and strategic considerations related to the consumer and the customer.

• Acts as general manager for brand P&L, understanding opportunities and risks in line items from topline and bottom line. Requires developing understanding of cross-functional costs.

• Partners with Finance to ensure accuracy of P&L inputs and run scenarios for existing business as well as new projectsimpactingbrand,e.g.innovation launches, renovation changes, customer‑specific opportunities.

• Advocates for improvements to brand P&L while weighing invoiceof the consumer.

Innovation & Renovation:

• Leads new product ideation and conceptualization for base brands.

• Builds5-year pipeline for brand portfolio including ideation, concept development, testing, technical assessments, financialassessmentsand project management.

• Leads packaging strategy to maximize brand equity rsee the development of packaging graphics modification projects across agencies, internal cross‑functional teams, other segment leaders, and Sales to ensure smooth product/graphics development and launches.

• Directs resource allocation (human and financial) and oversees implementation of innovation and renovation projects in brand portfolio.

Branding and Communications:

• Directs product definition and packaging graphics direction.

• Ensures execution of packaging development projects.

• Guides marketing team and agencies in the planning of consumer advertising and promotions.

• Manages communications plan execution to deliver on‑budget, growth‑driving tactics in packaging, promotions, advertising, digital and social engagement.

• Works collaboratively with the Sales team to drive growth with retailers striving to reach the consumer and provides strategic direction in the development of selling and customer presentation documents.

Team Leadership & Development:

• Identifies and leads direct reports,staffand agencies in management of efficient brand/product portfolio…