Job title: Mgr, Trends and Color Mkt CA 187.24
Company: Dunn-Edwards Corporation
Job description: Description :
$95,000 – $120,000 per year
There are many paint brands in North America, but only one is the best choice. Dunn-Edwards Paints prides itself on superior-performing products; first-class service from hard-working, knowledgeable employees; and our continued commitment to caring for our shared environment through our ® philosophy.
Landmarks across the Southwest are beautified and protected by one brand: Dunn-Edwards. Why? Because it’s the best paint around. With more than 140 stores, Dunn-Edwards is the region’s foremost manufacturer and supplier of exceptional-performing architectural and industrial coatings. We provide a complete line of paints, painting supplies and equipment for professional and quality-conscious clients.
Headquartered in Los Angeles for more than 90 years, Dunn-Edwards grew from a small, family business yet — despite our decades-long growth — we have maintained much of that close-knit feeling. Simply put, we make the highest-quality products, provide industry-leading services, and have the best employees in the industry.
- True team atmosphere: You get to work with multiple departments that have a common goal — being the #1 choice for all who paint. Respect, friendliness, professionalism and fun are the hallmarks of our company culture.
- Control your own destiny: We love seeing our people develop and advance in their careers. If you take great pride in your work, challenge yourself to continuously grow and want the opportunity to advance based on your performance and leadership, this might be just the place for you.
- World-class benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, tuition assistance program and more.
- Dunn-Edwards is a steward of our environment: Our mission has always been to provide the best-performing paint, in an environmentally friendly manner to protect the health and well-being of our customers, as well as the planet. We were a disciplined leader in the concept of green product manufacturing long before it became popular.
From our ingredients, to labeling, to our LEED Gold-certified paint manufacturing facility, we strive to build and expand our green legacy, providing you a wide range of eco-efficient products.
Looking for a great place to join and work alongside great people? If so, come for the challenge and stay for the growth at Dunn-Edwards!
The Manager, Trends and Color Marketing leads Dunn-Edwards trend spotting & research, color marketing & innovation, and color creative strategy for the organization across multiple brands and channels, while serving as an industry thought-leader for trend and color.
This position is based in the greater Los Angeles Market. The position provides support for strategy and development of trend, color, & creative platforms. This individual must maintain the highest level of performance and professionalism with an ongoing emphasis on project and thought leadership.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Leverage knowledge and experience to understand the architectural coatings landscape, customer insights, and unmet customer needs to inform innovation and marketing campaigns in the trend, color, and creative spaces.
- Drive color marketing and trend innovation throughout the organization. Identify and prioritize new concepts, tools, and approaches from discovery phase to commercialization.
- Provide project management of trend, color, and creative and other marketing initiatives toward delivery of high-impact campaigns.
- Analyze research, data, and insights and translate into winning creative and color strategies that lead the industry.
- Design and execute new color and trend programs, leveraging deep user understanding with the goal of improving user experience while delivering against strategic priorities and growth objectives.
- Act as a convener, bringing together colleagues from across functions to create and deliver consensus-driven solutions
- Build strong strategic and operational relationships with key internal and channel partners
Skills and Knowledge
- The position requires strong knowledge of home, fashion, and other trends as well as color science to bring trends, creative, and color marketing to market.
- Strong organizational skills and demonstrated excellence in the planning and execution of strategies for trend, color, and creative including inventory management and planning.
- Proven ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally, bringing together the best of the business to drive results in a heavily matrixed, fast-paced environment.
- Confident and effective communicator with strong interpersonal and team-management skills, driven to achieve goals and exceed expectations
- Self-starter and can work independently on projects as required
- Customer focused and team player
- Strong interpersonal skills, excellent oral, written and presentation skills
- A demonstrated ability to communicate well in large forums and to present concepts and plans at high-stakes meetings and with members of the media
- Drive, energy, and passion to advance Dunn-Edwards’ vision
- Ability to travel internationally to Europe, Asia, and Australia preferred
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This job has no direct reports to begin with and will have opportunity to build structure as the organization expands.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design, Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field required.
- 8+ years of confirmed experience working in the home/building materials industry in a trend, creative, and color capacity.
- Experience in the architectural coatings industry strongly preferred.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Not applicable.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Strong project management, organizational, time management and oral and written communication skills a must. Strong presentation skills preferred. Must be able to travel (drive and fly) 10% of the time among Dunn-Edwards locations throughout CA, NV, AZ, NM, and TX, including occasional overnight travel. High level of proficiency with MS Office applications with special emphasis on PowerPoint.
COMPENSATION: Base salary, bonus-eligible
Dunn-Edwards is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.
Expected salary: $95000 – 120000 per year
Location: California
Job date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:58:28 GMT
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