Associate Brand Manager

A Day in the Life of an Associate Brand Manager: You ll help define and deliver global product and brand strategies, partnering closely with product, insights, and commercial teams. Day to day, you ll: " Support the development of global product strategies and line plans, from early concept through launch. " Use consumer, category, and cultural insights to inform product innovation, platform evolution, and portfolio decisions. " Analyze market, category, and competitive trends to identify whitespace opportunities and growth ideas. " Partner with cross-functional teams (product development, insights, design, engineering, finance, legal) to move ideas forward efficiently and creatively. " Help shape go-to-market direction by aligning product intent, positioning, and storytelling across regions. " Support U.S. market execution by contributing to line planning, forecasting, sell-in readiness, and close collaboration with sales teams to ensure product strategies translate to strong in-market performance. " Work closely with regional and commercial teams to understand local market needs, retail dynamics, and executional challenges. " Support forecasting, development systems, and tracking tools to ensure accurate product, timeline, and financial inputs. " Support internal storytelling through clear decks, frameworks, and narratives that bring product strategies to life. " Keep teams aligned through clear, consistent communication of priorities, progress, and decisions. What You'll Bring: " 3 years of experience in brand, product, strategy, consumer goods, or a related field. " Bachelor s degree in Marketing, Business, Strategy, or a related discipline (MBA a plus). " Experience with product development processes, line planning, forecasting, sales collaboration " Comfort working with data and insights able to connect quantitative and qualitative inputs into clear recommendations. " Strong organizational and project management skills; comfortable juggling multiple workstreams. " A strong interest in product development, consumer behavior, and portfolio strategy. " Clear, confident communicator who can influence cross-functional partners. " Comfort experimenting with and applying AI-powered tools to improve analysis, productivity, and creative problem-solving. " Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel. " Adaptable with ability to work across a wide variety of brands and toy categories and at different stages of development