Cold Chain Food Service Market Manager at Emerson Electric Co in Kennesaw, Georgia

Job Description:

At Emerson, we are innovators and problem-solvers, focused on a common purpose: leaving our world in a better place than we found it. Each and every day, our foundational values—integrity, safety and quality, supporting our people, customer focus, continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation—inform every decision we make and empower our employees to keep reaching higher. As a global technology and engineering leader, we provide groundbreaking solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production and protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure.

Emerson, a Fortune 500 company with $15.3 billion in sales and 200 manufacturing locations worldwide, is committed to helping employees grow and thrive throughout their careers.
Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring options or a recent MBA graduate, you’ll find a variety of opportunities at Emerson. Join our team and start your journey today.

Every day, our Cold Chain team is making a difference, providing the technology, software and the management support that works to help eliminate food waste. We're making a real impact in the challenge of getting fresh and safe food from farm to fork.

If you are a marketing, sales or product management professional looking for an opportunity to grow and make an impact to the world, Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you! Based in our Kennesaw, Georgia location, you’ll work with top talent on innovative products and services. Your ideas, expertise and leadership is focused on helping reduce the 1/3 of the world’s food supply that is lost or wasted every year, and your efforts help the hundreds of millions of people in the world who are hungry gain access to fresh and safe food.

The Cold Chain, Food Service Market Manager is responsible for market strategy, and execution.  You will develop our marketing strategy and work closely with our customers to ensure we can help them solve their burning problems while achieving our growth targets.

AS A MARKETING MANAGER, YOU WILL: 

• Be the expert in the customer and market
• Support customer engagements and VOC activities
• Identify, validate and prioritize market opportunities
• Develop and implement market strategy and outline priorities including monitor technology, market trends and competitive activities
• Develop a holistic go-to-market strategy and plans to deliver our revenue commitments.
• Give our sales team a competitive edge.
• Develop proven content and ways to reach buyers for each stage of the buying cycle.
• Support marketing communications and industry stewardship in North America
• Tell our story, make connections and generate an emotional connection with our customers.
• Ultimately better serve our customers ensuring we solve their most burning problems.

WHO YOU ARE:

You gain insights into customer needs and identify opportunities to deliver solutions that meet the customer needs. You establish and maintain effective customer relationships. You provide timely and helpful information to individuals across the organization and encourage the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions. You keep a strong bottom-line oreintation and push yourself and help others to achieve results. You articulate credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value. You partner with others to get work done.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3-5 years of experience in a sales, marketing or product management role
• Has made an impact to the business with measurable results
• Technical aptitude
• Ability to travel up to 30% of time
• Legal authorization to work in the United States - Sponsorship for this role will not be provided

 PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:  

• Food service industry experience
• 5-7 years experience in Marketing roles (ie Product marketer, market manager or market research manager), product management or sales or a combination of those roles.
• Has made significant impact to sales with measurable results
• Proven success building and leveraging a brand or specific product category showing growth in revenue.
• Experience working with multi-step distribution
• Experience working on a team with demand generation and marketing operation professionals
• Experience in the launch of multiple B2B/B2C products, with IoT and subscription-based business models
• Increasing levels of marketing responsibility in modern marketing companies

WHY EMERSON? 

Our Commitment to Our People

We invest in our employees to ensure they have the marketplace knowledge, skills and competencies to compete and lead in a global economy. Our training programs focus on end-to-end development from onboarding through senior leadership.

Benefits

Emerson places a high value on ensuring that employees have a good work-life balance. We provide access to a competitive benefits package, including the following: medical insurance, dental and vision coverage, 401k participation with a competitive immediate match, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, and an employee assistance program. Immediate vacation and holiday leave available, including a facility shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day. Kennesaw Employee Resource Groups, including a very active Diversity and Inclusion Committee, ensure that the Emerson values are incorporated into everyday employee life.

Why Work in the Greater Metro Atlanta Area

Our facility is located in Kennesaw, Georgia, which is conveniently located within driving distance to Atlanta and Historic Downtown Kennesaw. The area offers excellent school systems, an abundance of outdoor walking trails, and low crime rates create a family-friendly environment. The area is surrounded by several growing communities with restaurants, festivals, shopping, and outdoor activities that make them exciting places to live and work.

About our Location

The newly renovated Kennesaw campus hosts a Manufacturing Facility, Customer Support Call Center, and the offices of our Division President & Staff. Retail Solutions is a global business unit inside the Commercial & Residential Solutions Cold Chain segment and is the leading provider of electronic controls and optimization services for supermarket, convenience store, restaurant and refrigerated transportation customers and the OEMs that serve them. Electronics & Solutions is comprised of six acquisitions organized to add value to Emerson’s world leading products through control, connectivity and remote monitoring. The business generates half of its revenue outside of North America and employs over 1,200 people globally. Headquartered in the Greater-Atlanta area, the business has major operations in Minnesota, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, China and the Philippines. The Cold Chain business helps ensure that food safely and efficiently travels from farm to fork. With the blend of businesses and functions represented under this one roof, there are many opportunities for advancement within the Kennesaw location.

Our success is measured by the positive impact we make on people, our communities and the world in which we live. Learn more about us!.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Emerson, we are committed to fostering a culture where every employee is valued and respected for their experiences and perspectives. We believe a diverse and inclusive work environment contributes to the rich exchange of ideas that inspires innovation and brings the best solutions to our customers. This philosophy is fundamental to living our company’s values and our responsibility to leave the world in a better place.

Diversity and Inclusion at Emerson is about welcoming, respecting, and valuing the differences each employee possesses. Inclusion is creating a real sense of engagement, belonging and connection for all employees. Learn more about our Culture & Values and about Diversity & Inclusion at Emerson.

Work Authorization

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.

If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to idisability.administrator@emerson.com.  

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