Sr Associate Product Manager - Customer Marketing

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire a Sr. Associate Customer Marketing Manager immediately in a Hybrid (50/50) capacity at our Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

What We Bring To The Table

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

McCormick is seeking a full-time Sr Associate Customer Marketing Manager for the US Foodservice team. The Sr Associate Manager supports the development and execution of customer marketing campaigns and annual marketing plans within established priorities. This role manages defined workstreams and smaller customer programs, coordinates cross-functional inputs, and builds the analysis, presentations, sales stories, and marketing materials needed to support customer and business objectives.

The successful candidate will be a critical thinker and creative problem solver who collaborates effectively across Marketing, Sales, customers, brokers, and cross-functional teams. The Sr Associate Customer Marketing Manager makes day-to-day execution decisions within assigned work and escalates strategic decisions, material priority conflicts, and senior-level commitments to the appropriate leader.

Responsibilities

• Support development and execution of customer marketing campaigns and annual marketing plans aligned with segment and brand growth objectives.
• Manage defined campaign workstreams and smaller customer programs across relevant national-account, distributor, eCommerce, and non-commercial channels.
• Coordinate day-to-day inputs from global marketing, culinary, market research, Sales/brokers, Strategic Business Management, and Brand teams.
• Support customer-facing creative development, sales stories, and customer-specific initiatives and business objectives.
• Build business presentations and supporting materials for brokers, customers, senior leadership, and internal reviews.
• Assist with responses to customer insight and innovation requests by creating appropriate marketing materials.
• Perform campaign and program analysis and reporting; identify findings and prepare optimization recommendations for Product Manager or leadership review.
• Maintain effective working relationships with assigned customer and channel contacts within defined workstreams.
• Track multiple assigned projects, communicate progress and issues, and escalate strategic decisions, material conflicts, and commitments outside the assigned scope.
• Support Marketing and Sales objectives through reliable execution, analysis, communication, and teamwork.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or a related discipline.
• Minimum of two years of relevant marketing/sales experience in Food Service, CPG, or Food Manufacturing supporting comparable customer marketing work.
• Experience coordinating or supporting multiple projects and defined workstreams.
• Ability to prepare clear analysis, reporting, presentations, and marketing materials.
• Strong communication, teamwork, organization, critical-thinking, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Marketing, Sales, customer-facing, and cross-functional partners.
• Sound judgment to work within defined priorities and escalate strategic decisions appropriately.

Preferred Qualifications

• Foodservice industry knowledge.
• Understanding of B2B foodservice marketing, advertising, business and brand planning, and promotional activities.
• Understanding of the industry sector and competitive landscape.

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As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

Base Salary: 75K - 85K

Base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, experience for this role, and/or internal equity of our current employees as part of any final offer. This position is also eligible to participate in McCormick’s Incentive Bonus (MIB) Plan/ McCormick’s Sales Incentive Bonus (SIB) Plan/ McCormick’s Dividend Program.

In addition to a competitive compensation package, permanent employees of McCormick are eligible for our extensive Total Rewards programs that include:

• Comprehensive health plans covering medical, vision, dental, life and disability benefits
• Family-friendly benefits such as paid parental leave, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and caregiver support
• Retirement and investment programs including 401(k) and profit-sharing plans

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.