Associate Marketing Manager - Truterra Soil Health Services - Land O'Lakes Inc.

The target location for this role is Land O'Lakes Corporate Headquarters in Arden Hills, MN, however this position can be remote (virtual) and located anywhere in the USA

Truterra is the sustainability and innovation business of Land O'Lakes, Inc. As the only farmer-owned, farmer-driven food and ag sustainability program in the U.S., Truterra believes farmers have the greatest potential to protect and restore the environment. As a member of the Truterra team, you will be helping bring agronomic insights and industry connections to farmers, so they can protect and restore their land, and unlock its deeper value.

As an Associate Marketing Manager , you will be responsible for l eading the development, execution and overall management of the business plans for Truterra products in your segment of the business. In this role you will develop sales enablement materials, and conduct forecasting, pricing, and risk management analysis. In addition, you will prepare and develop annual and long-range planning, pricing and profitability analysis, line extension development, portfolio optimization, and execution of national as well as regional marketing programs.

As a rapidly growing business, Truterra is seeking individuals that are genuine, supportive team-players, hungry to collaborate cross-functionally to build better solutions to hard problems and have a meaningful impact in agriculture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the sales team to manage pricing and provide pricing guidance on customer proposals
  
• Coordinate with the sales team to develop customer-ready sales enablement materials which help simplify our complex products for both the upstream and downstream audience
  
• Identify and analyze new markets for Truterra's products and services
  
• Understand key P&L drivers to influence and manage profitability
  
• Utilize strategic marketing perspective while working with cross-functional teams to develop and execute key strategies and tactics based on grower, ag retailer, and downstream customer understanding and insights and to achieve profitability objectives
  
• Engage and align key internal stakeholders
  
• Support strategic customer accounts
  
• Develop business strategies and work to influence and align cross functional teams as well as organizational leaders.
  

Required Experience & Education:

• A Masters of Business Administration or related business experience.
  
• Requires at least 2 years of experience with some of the following:
  

• Analyzing Profit and Loss (P&L) statements
  
• Developing business strategies, including sizing and segmenting new markets
  
• Cross-functional collaboration to achieve profitability objectives
  
• Engaging and aligning key internal stakeholders
  
• Commercializing new products
  
• Forecasting and pricing
  
• Supporting strategic customer accounts
  
• Developing and executing insights-driven marketing campaigns (including website, digital and social).
  

• Basic understanding of agriculture required, understanding of sustainability preferred
  
• Proven experience in effective communication planning and delivery
  
• Proven ability to influence without authority
  

Competencies-Skills (Required):

• Excellent sales and customer service skills
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
  
• Strong ability to work under ambiguous environments and understand how to pivot at moment's notice
  
• Self-starting, goal directed with proven ability to achieve results through self and others
  
• Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal, persuasive skills
  
• Experience engaging with and influencing customer counterparts at multiple levels with large, multinational corporate customers
  

Preferred Experience & Education:

• Knowledge of ag retail strongly preferred
  
• Understanding of sustainability and related products/services strongly preferred
  

Travel Required:

• 10% domestic travel with overnight stays
  

The salary range for this role is $102,400 - 153,720.

As a full time employee, you will receive a wide range of benefits for you and your dependents:

• 3 medical plan choices including HSA plan options

• Vision & dental plan

• Company paid Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, parental leave, caregiver leave and emergency leave

• 401(k) plan with company match and additional automatic contribution regardless of participation

• Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays and Employee Assistance Program

• Wellness program focused on Physical, Financial and Emotional Health with opportunity for cash incentives

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About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best. Land O'Lakes is Where Your Future Takes Root.

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.

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