ACCO BRANDS CORP Channel Marketing Associate Salary in the United States

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Essential brands. Innovative products. Smart investment. Winning team. This is what you will find at ACCO Brands. We are passionate about building a culture that is committed to the success of our employees. If you are looking for an organization that offers rewarding opportunities and is dedicated to team orientation, learning and development, and flourishes with success, we invite you to be a part of building our company for the future.  

ACCO Brands is seeking a Channel Marketing Associate to support our Retail and Distributor Channel in Kettering, OH. This role will identify channel-specific product and promotional opportunities for specific accounts. The CMA partners with sales on the marketing, merchandising and promotions needed in support of driving sales of corporate brands.

 Responsibilities: 

• Interacts with Merchandising peers in developing customer-compliant merchandising programs for account-specific products and programs 
• Coordinates presentation materials, samples and concept boards necessary for specific account meetings 
• Works with sales representatives in preparing for and participating in customer sales presentations 
• Works directly with forecasting and order management with each element of the team to ensure timely information is provided, meeting customer complete and on-time measures 
• Leads weekly customer meetings with cross-functional teams 
• Assists with analysis of product performance providing recommendations of new items and categories 
• Monitors competitive product and trend performance to ensure the development of products and programs that will maximize the potential for appropriate accounts 
• Ability to work with category management, market research and POS data to determine market and product strategies 
• Assist in developing retailer and e-tailer specific initiatives to drive sell through on and offline with ROI analysis.
• Carry out in-store and online market audits, including pricing, to feed into strategic planning and pricing processes
• Work closely with Marketing Manager + Sales/Marketing Manager to manage and execute the Marketing Development Funds for key retailers and distributors. Track ROI of programs and changes as needed
• Review MAP reports to identify violators of our policy. Enforce MAP and analyze the results.
• Execute Amazon AMS spend to maintain agreed upon ROAS

 Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Business, Marketing, or a related area of study preferred. 
• 3 or more years’ experience in a Marketing or Sales role is required. Preferably with a consumer products company.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) 
• Excellent oral and written communications skills – must be comfortable presenting to accounts and senior leadership 
• Strategic reasoning and critical thinking – analyze wide range of inputs, identify opportunities, develop strategy 
• Ideal candidate must have the ability to work cross functionally within a matrix organization; influencing decisions, driving the business and inspiring cross-functional teams 
• Strong analytical skills and must be detail oriented and self-motivated 
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to travel approximately 30% 

About Us

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of nearly $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth.  We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

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