Assistant Brand Manager, Innovation

Career Opportunity for Assistant Brand Manager, Innovation

Iovate is a dynamic, leading-edge nutrition company that delivers some of the highest quality, most innovative and effective active nutrition, and weight management products in the world. Each of our Brands are committed to biology, science, and their own culture to assist customers in reaching their goals.

Iovate – Commited to a higher standard

Accountabilities:

• Work closely with brand teams to align on strategy, brand fit, and launch of innovations.
• Work with our regulatory and compliance teams to ensure that our labels and marketing materials are compliant.
• Work with sales teams to drive new listings at retailers. Familiarity with mass retailers a plus
• Work with all cross-functional teams to launch innovation on time. This includes marketing, sales, insights, R&D, operations, finance, regulatory, quality, and legal.
• Help drive product life cycle management including insights, financial analysis, pricing, creative briefs, internal and external pitches, execution, etc.
• Data driven to track and optimize business performance throughout the first year of the innovation’s life.
• Work with our International Business Unit to help create and deliver new innovations to overseas distributors
• Gather insights to support each innovation. This includes conducting competitive analysis, tracking marketplace activity by observing trends, concept research, and collecting consumer and category insights.
• Work with creative to develop labels for new and existing products to ensure that products are marketed effectively.
• Strong analytical skills to help identify growth opportunities, address issues, set up product pricing, and present strong, profitable, business cases. P&L experience is an asset.

Bottom Line Accountability

• Successful execution of all programs (on budget and on time) included with annual marketing plan.

Experience & Skillset:

· Post-Secondary Education in Business Administration, and/or Sales or Marketing

· Minimum 3 years of related experience preferably within a consumer-packaged goods environment

· Work experience in the dietary supplement category is preferred.

· Knowledge, understanding, and passion for dietary supplements is an asset.

· Solid understanding of nutritional supplements and ingredients is an asset.

• Experience in copy writing and/or social content is an asset.

· Proactive and able to continuously manage change in an extremely fast paced, energetic work environment.

• Customer service oriented – managing customer issues and feedback
• Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills
• Must be available flexible hours throughout the year and may require travel within Canada and the US
• Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite

Culture:

Located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada we offer a dynamic, progressive, team based environment. We have on-site premium fitness facilities and encourage a healthy lifestyle. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity to grow with us. For further information please visit us at www.iovate.com.

Iovate Health Sciences international Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible work environment. We are committed to meeting the needs of all applicants in a timely manner and will do so by meeting accessibility requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Human Rights Code. If you require accommodations to fully participate in the recruitment and selection process, please email the Iovate Human Resources team at [email protected] to make an accommodation request. Any information received relating to accommodations will be treated as confidential

We appreciate applicant interest in this position, however, due to the volume of submissions, the Iovate Human Resources team will only contact candidates selected for an interview

We are interested in learning more about you and appreciate you taking the time to apply in confidence to: [email protected].

No agency calls please