Sr. Marketing Manager, Beverage

This role is ideal for a dynamic and results-driven marketer who thrives in a fast-paced commercial environment, excels at storytelling, and is passionate about bringing insights, flavor innovation, and customer opportunities to life. While some strategic input into targeting and go-to-market approach is required, the majority of your time will be spent in execution—directly engaging with customers and collaborating across sales, R&D, and applications teams to unlock growth.

Key Responsibilities :

• Partner with Sales : Collaborate daily with the West Coast Sales Leader to co-develop regional growth strategies, identify white space opportunities, and drive new business pipeline.
• Customer Engagements : Lead the development and delivery of high-impact customer presentations, innovation sessions, and concept pitches that showcase Kerry’s expertise and capabilities in citrus, coffee, taste modulation, and cocoa.
• Pipeline Activation : Own the marketing execution needed to move opportunities from prospect to conversion—translating insights, technical capabilities, and trends into compelling customer-facing narratives.
• Portfolio Storytelling : Build persuasive positioning and storytelling for our taste portfolios, enabling differentiation in a crowded market.
• Insight-Driven Execution : Leverage relevant category trends, consumer behaviors, and customer insights to guide engagements and tailor messaging.
• Sales Enablement : Create best-in-class tools and materials to support the commercial team in selling our taste solutions—ranging from customer-ready decks to activation toolkits and sample support.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work seamlessly with R&D application and flavorist teams to align customer-facing work with business goals and technical capabilities.

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