Campari Group is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, seeking an Associate Customer Marketing Manager to support the National Account On-Premise team. This role involves managing operational and program-related deliverables to ensure effective execution of marketing plans and initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Customer Marketing Manager (CMM) and NAON sales teams to customize national plans for key customers
- Help manage the briefing process and build RFPs for assigned customers
- Regularly update trend decks and selling resources to enable stronger RFPs
- Maintain key resource and content libraries such as the internal Cocktail Database and Custom Program Library
- Build strong partnerships with House of Brands, Sales Managers, and customers to support integrated communication across teams
- Provide strategic input by identifying customer patterns and supporting continuous improvement of selling tools
- Work with the CMM to create annual, customer-specific plans for key accounts
- Plan NAON takedowns of global and national on-premise initiatives
- Assist in distilling annual marketing plans to distributors and aligning support with distributor goals
- Distill and present annual brand plans to key agency partners and brief them on incremental on-premise needs
- Support key meetings with Sales Leadership and Distributor Partners, including Quarterly Business Reviews
- Manage key events and tradeshows
- Support Customer Marketing team in internal presentations to cross-functional stakeholders
- Contribute to integrated communication across Customer Marketing, Brand Marketing, National Accounts, and Field Sales and Marketing
- Track and open vendor POs, ensuring timely invoicing and accruals
- Manage submission of partnership documents with Legal
- Help plan and manage key areas of the customer support budget, including sampling and Flagship accounts
- Develop customer-specific POS to drive display and awareness; optimize orders for available budget across regions and follow up with local team to ensure execution and documentation
- Work across preferred sampling vendors to execute retailer demos; coordinate POS for demos to ensure executional excellence
- Run point on Buyer Education Trips
- Collect Sales feedback on programming, POS, and execution to inform optimization for future planning cycles
- Track agency budgets and provide POV on annual SOWs and burn reports
- Manage key tracking tools such as the RFP tracker and other execution-monitoring systems
- Share insights cross-functionally to support continuous improvement and future planning
Requirements:
- 3+ years in Customer/Trade Marketing, CPG/Bev Alc Brand Marketing, or Retail Media
- Experience in adjacent customer, trade, or commercial marketing roles will be considered, provided the candidate demonstrates strong on-premise or customer-focused marketing fundamentals
- Beverage alcohol experience required; spirits experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field
- Strong program development skills; ability to translate insights into action
- Experience managing agencies through planning and execution
- Understanding of basic budgeting principles
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize effectively and manage multiple workstreams without compromising quality
- Strong planning and analytical capabilities
- Creative and solutions‑oriented problem solver
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams
- Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Comfortable working within established tools and processes while identifying opportunities for improvement
- Ability to interpret data and identify actionable insights
- Regular interaction with stakeholders across time zones via video, phone, Teams, and email
- Excellent project management and multitasking skills
- Proficient in remote‑work tools: Teams, Zoom, Office Suite, etc
- This role requires comfort operating in a dynamic environment where priorities may shift and collaboration is essential
- Experience with syndicated data and key partners (Nielsen, Numerator, VIP, Technomic and Datassentials) preferred
- Experience managing agencies, vendors, or distributors preferred