Specialist, Marketing Merchandising

For nearly 70 years, MasterBrand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. That, combined with our stylish products, expansive dealer and retail network, and dedicated associates, has helped make us the number one North American residential cabinet business. Our unique culture of continuous improvement is based on trusting the tools, empowering the team and moving forward, and is kept alive by our more than 14,000 associates across 20 plus manufacturing facility and offices. Visit www.masterbrand.com to learn more and join us in building great experiences together!

A Marketing Merchandising Specialist is responsible for creating, managing, and distributing marketing materials that support our company's promotional and product launch efforts. This role involves collaborating with commercial marketing and design teams to produce printed materials such as brochures, price and specification catalogs, promotional goods, signage, and other print marketing materials as needed. This person will ensure that materials align with marketing requests, target audience needs, and marketing strategies. They may also manage inventory, print vendor relationships, coordinate printing and production workflow, track the effectiveness of materials, and ensure timely delivery for events, campaigns, or sales teams. Attention to detail, creativity, and strong organizational skills are keys to success in this role.

This role is remote with the expectation to report to the Jasper, IN office about 1-2 days per week for in-person proofing, sample reviews, light booth reviews, and other situations that necessitate in-person meeting or collaboration.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Receive assignments through the Marketing Workflow Process with the ability to execute the requested marketing media.
• Must be able to collect and deliver the requested materials back to the stakeholder in a timely manner, receive feedback and manage the project execution.
• Maintain knowledge of vendor capabilities and material variations or the ability to communicate that information from the vendor to the stakeholder accurately is a requirement.
• Manage the overall production process, including the relationship with the external vendors.
• Inventory track and reporting.
• Manage materials distribution and coordination of logistics and timing.
• Assist in budget management, including PO creation, quoting, and invoice receipt.
• Handle multiple departmental cross collaborations as well as build relationships with stakeholders.
• Develops in-depth knowledge of all MasterBrand strategic business units. Leverages ideas from other reviews and co-workers to provide value-added recommendations and best practices to others. 
• Consistently demonstrates the MasterBrand Way, positioning the company for growth and helping identify opportunities to reduce waste, complexity, and improve our work environment.
• Demonstrates teamwork by responsively collaborating with the management and staff, sharing information and ideas, proactively seeking, and accepting constructive feedback, and accepting additional assignments when appropriate. 
• Identify self-development needs and seeks opportunities to work on areas that will further develop skills. 
• Participates in company efforts related to ethics and compliance activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• 1+ years of prior experience in a Brand or Marketing Communications, or Business Management in a related area.
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Production process experience.
• Basic graphic, file and layout understanding.
• Project Management skills preferred.
• Understanding of production to an established budget, production runs and overages.
• Vendor relationship management experience.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.

Equal Employment Opportunity

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment, please contact us at [email protected].