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Primary Purpose of this Position:  

This Director role will lead strategy & marketing for Foodservice, Retail and Reuse, creating 1-3 year "where to play" planning for accelerated growth and helping create company resuse strategy; creates strategy, set priorities and pace, insights & analytics, commercial operations and category management for Foodservice & Retail. 

What will you be responsible for? 

• Foodservice & Retail business strategy; develops and provides plan to accelerate growth and business priorities, building business cases complete with fact-base to support the annual plan/goals. 

• Overall responsibility for the critically important work around category management (and product management) capabilities that allow us to understand our target markets and opportunities in-depth, translating this to robust customer value propositions and managing our product portfolio to match. 

• Owns market and consumer analytics, including operating unit analytics to support strategies/commercial/category planning (analytics and use of data); uses analytics for business cases, as needed in Reuse or business planning. 

• Develop and collaborate on company Reuse strategy with impact on various business lines and region markets (beverage, PCH and Foodservice/Retail). 

• Oversees compilation of any specific operating unit secondary data – such as compilation of customer data (in consultation with center). 

• Owns commercial operations for Foodservice/Retail, including pipeline mgmt. / sufficiency checks vs. plan, account plans creation and management, demand forecasting & development of demand plan as part of S&OP cadence, and NPS / CX, and adherence to commercial process standards. 

• Oversees category management (Marketing), ensuring building of category plans, defining insights needed to support category plan, feeding innovation pipeline, supporting for commercialization of new products (when necessary), Foodservice/Retail PTW strategy development and deployment, channel strategy and SKU rationalization. 

What are we looking for? 

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or related field 

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience doing sales, marketing and strategy development or related in accelerated business development environments 

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience doing leading effective teams with growth mindset.  

• Experience creating effective strategies for accelerated business growth. 

• Experience operating and leading with entrepreneurial approach in developing/new businesses. 

• Experience in category planning and setting pace and priority to enable growth with customers. 

• Market analysis and building business cases; able to analyze data to make informed, collaborative business decisions. 

• Ability to operate in ambigious or new, innovative business lines; able to partner closely with commercial and GV leadership to mature business. 

• Knowledge of data analysis to inform strategy and planning for new or maturing business lines in CPG. 

• Knowledge of sustainability regulations, trends and positioning. 

• Knowledge of foodservice and retail channels as well as markets of future opportunity. 

• Knowledge of category management and account planning. 

Compensation & Benefits: 

• This role can be located remotely; however, regular travel to Westminster, CO may be required. 

• Hiring Salary Range: $123,000 – 209,400 USD*. Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.  

• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan. 

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
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