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Brand Manager
Canopy Growth Corporation
Toronto, CAN
Full-time
Manager · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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Responsibilities
- Brand Strategy & Planning
- Own the development and execution of annual brand plans aligned with company growth objectives.
- Define, lead and evolve brand positioning, value propositions, and consumer targeting strategies.
- Serve as the internal brand owner and primary steward of the brand, ensuring all product, communications and commercial activities strengthen it’s long-term equity.
- Identify growth opportunities through consumer insights, market trends, and competitive analysis.
- Manage brand performance against key business and marketing objectives.
- Innovation & Product Development
- Own the brand’s new product development roadmap and multi-year innovation pipeline, ensuring the product priorities directly support the brand strategy and serves the target consumer
- Establish the brand/product guardrails that guide product formats, consumer occasions, price positioning, product claims and quality standards.
- Partner with Product Development, Regulatory, Operations, Insights, Sales, Demand Planning and Finance teams to translate brand objectives into commercially viable products.
- Own portfolio architecture and identify opportunities to introduce, optimize, reposition or rationalize products.
- Monitor product performance and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Consumer & Market Insights
- Lead the development of a strong, shared understanding of the brand’s target consumer, needs, behaviours and purchase drivers.
- Leverage quantitative and qualitative research to shape brand strategy, product roadmaps and commercial priorities.
- Translate consumer and market insights into actionable strategies for internal Trade Marketing team to deliver on.
- Track category trends, competitive activities, and emerging consumer preferences.
- Champion the voice of the consumer throughout brand, product and commercial decision-making
- Integrated Marketing Execution
- Own the strategic objectives of integrated marketing campaigns across retail, digital, experiential, and trade channels.
- Collaborate with internal Creative and Trade Marketing teams to ensure brand consistency and that deliverables are met with clear measures of success.
- Ensure all B2C & B2B touchpoints remain consistent with the brand’s positioning, identity and established brand/product guardrails.
- Evaluate campaign performance and lead ongoing optimization based on data-driven insights.
- Ensure all marketing initiatives comply with applicable cannabis regulations and company policies.
- Commercial & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Provide clear brand leadership and communicate rationale behind key decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Partner closely with Sales and Trade Marketing teams to develop programs that drive retail distribution, visibility and sell-through.
- Lead the development of brand narratives, innovation stories and strategic content for customer presentations and retailer engagement efforts.
- Influence cross-functional stakeholders to deliver business objectives.
- Act as the primary point of accountability for the brand, proactively identifying and addressing risks, opportunities and executional gaps.
- Lead brand planning processes and facilitate alignment across teams.
- Financial Management
- Own the brand budget and allocate investments against the highest-priority business growth opportunities.
- Monitor revenue, profitability, market share, distribution and return on marketing investment.
- Support Demand Planning in developing forecasts and contribution to annual business planning processes.
- Other duties as assigned
- Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Commerce, or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive brand management experience, preferably within cannabis, CPG, beverage alcohol, tobacco or consumer wellness.
- Demonstrated success leading brand strategy and marketing programs.
- Strong business acumen and analytical capabilities.
- Strong Drive to win, strategic thinking, consumer obsession and innovation mindset
- Data driven decision making
- Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Preferred Experience:
- MBA or advanced business degree an asset.
- Experience working in highly regulated industries.
- Consumer insights and innovation experience.
- Familiarity with syndicated data sources and market analytics tools.
- Experience managing external agencies and creative partners.
- Other Details
- This is a full-time, remote-first position based out of Ontario.
- Salary range - $80,000 - $105,000
- Benefits – extended health and dental coverage, paid vacation, and participation in our employer-supported retirement savings program
- #LI-Remote
- We appreciate your interest, and promise to review all applications, but we will only be contacting those who best fit the requirements.
- We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require accommodation, please notify your Talent Acquisition Partner. Please note, the chosen applicant will be required to successfully complete background and reference checks.
- Recruitment Process: All applications for this role are reviewed manually; no AI-based screening or ranking tools are used.
- This post is for an existing vacancy.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Commerce, or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive brand management experience, preferably within cannabis, CPG, beverage alcohol, tobacco or consumer wellness.
- Demonstrated success leading brand strategy and marketing programs.
- Strong business acumen and analytical capabilities.
- Strong Drive to win, strategic thinking, consumer obsession and innovation mindset
- Data driven decision making
- Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- MBA or advanced business degree an asset.
- Experience working in highly regulated industries.
- Consumer insights and innovation experience.
- Familiarity with syndicated data sources and market analytics tools.
- Experience managing external agencies and creative partners.
- Other Details
- This is a full-time, remote-first position based out of Ontario.
- Salary range - $80,000 - $105,000
- Benefits – extended health and dental coverage, paid vacation, and participation in our employer-supported retirement savings program
- #LI-Remote
- We appreciate your interest, and promise to review all applications, but we will only be contacting those who best fit the requirements.
- We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require accommodation, please notify your Talent Acquisition Partner. Please note, the chosen applicant will be required to successfully complete background and reference checks.
- Recruitment Process: All applications for this role are reviewed manually; no AI-based screening or ranking tools are used.
- This post is for an existing vacancy.
About Canopy Growth Corporation
Agriculture & Farming1128 employeesFounded 2009
Canadian publicly traded cannabis company producing medical and adult-use cannabis products and vaporizers for patients and consumers.
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