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Marketing Manager

Position: Marketing Manager

Location: Position is based in Portland, OR

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports to: Director of Sales and Marketing

What’s Your Brand?

You’re a marketing leader with a great balance between creative work and effective execution – a truly whole-brained professional. Consumer trends get you excited, and you have a knack for distilling them down into shareable tools. You can comfortably interface with multiple departments to understand and organize those needs to effective marketing tools. After running campaigns and programs, you can comfortably review what worked and did not work to adapt and grow.

You love craft beer and genuinely want to help the business succeed.

What’s Our Brand?

Since 2009, we’ve been crafting merch that helps breweries thrive. We’re born and raised in Portland, Oregon, giving us front row seats to the craft beer revolution and inspiring us to serve as your industry ally for everything branded: apparel, headwear, drinkware, and all the “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas you can dream up. We’ve been there, done that, and made the t-shirts to prove it.

We didn’t rise to the top by being just another supplier; we’re the merch mercenaries ready to get in the trenches. Our expert design team, online stores, warehousing, and fulfillment services are here to make life easier—and custom goods more profitable than painful.

From refreshing retail space, gearing up for festivals, or launching a new product in retail, we deliver custom goods that are on-trend, on-brand, and ready to succeed. From the smallest batch to the biggest order, nothing gets us more excited than raising a glass to our customers’ success.

Job Description and Duties

  • This role breaks up between two key priorities:
  • Leading all marketing initiatives to establish Brewery Branding the GO-TO brewery supplier for custom goods.
  • Leading the internal team to drive product and design trends keeping Brewery Branding at the leading edge of the custom good category
  • Marketing Initiatives

  • Create, execute, and evaluate regular programs to empower the sales team in the field
  • Manage Craft Brewers Conference Trade Show
  • Create support materials for smaller trade shows throughout the year
  • Design contests, and methods for customer acquisition
  • Manage advertising and sponsorship
  • Establish category authority with podcast appearances, press, and content marketing
  • Create annual Merch Report
  • Lead social media marketing
  • Internal Trend Leading

  • Establish a cadence of innovation for trendy new items for custom merch
  • Inspire custom design process to deliver the most on trend design work
  • Identify new items, materials, and categories that add incremental opportunities to the business
  • Report trends internally on a regular cadence to leadership and peers
  • Identify creative ways for the Brewery Branding brand to show up
  • Be a strong advocate for the brand and the final check on branded work to ensure that it lives up to our mission and values
  • Connect great work happening across the network of customers to create new opportunities
  • Basics

  • Weekends and evening functions from time to time – You will need to be available to work and attend industry events multiple times a year
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time. We will need you to see our world so you can find creative ways to impact
  • The Marketing Manager reports to the Portland office Monday - Friday
  • OUR MISSION AND VALUES

    We strive to help our brewery and beverage friends thrive by crafting remarkable custom goods that are profitable instead of painful.

    GIVE A DAMN

    We give a damn about the success of our co-workers and our customers. This is not just another job. We hustle harder and out-care our competition. Every client should feel like a large client.

    EARN TRUST

    Trust is not given, it is earned. This starts with the quality of our interactions and extends to our accountability. It’s true internally with our teams and externally with our customers.

    DO IT BETTER

    We believe there is a Right Way to do things and with our first two values as our compass we seek to Do Better. This is a process of constant improvement in everything from workplace culture to goods and services, to the impact on the communities we serve.

    TAKE PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP

    We hire smart people and empower them to make decisions and act with our values in mind. Every voice can impact the success of this business and we’re stronger, faster, and more creative as a team.

    QUALIFICATIONS

  • 8+ Years Experience
  • Bachelor's degree from four-year College or University
  • Proficient with Adobe Suite and Microsoft Office
  • Ability to thrive in a complex, fast-paced environment and adaptable to change.
  • Demonstrated creative thinking that explores the previously unexplored and then brings those ideas into executable frameworks
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking, and strategic skills. Must be able to extract insights from quantitative/qualitative data and research. Make complex ideas simple.
  • Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
  • Exposure and understanding of key social media platforms
  • Approachable personality with a strong customer focus
  • Competence as a creative writer with an eye for great emails and company voice
  • Strong project management skills
  • Strong problem-solving ability, including metrics-driven thinking
  • Ability to travel as necessary
  • Supervisory Responsibility

    The Marketing Manager will have direct reports

    Work Environment

    Due to the nature of the work and the need to interact with others, this position will report to the Portland office Monday -Friday. Travel may be required up to 20% of the time.

    Education

    Preferred bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university

    Physical Demands

    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to work at a computer workstation for extended periods of time. The ability to travel is high with extended periods of driving and frequent flights to market.

    Compensation

    Brewery Branding offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, rewarding work environment and growth for committed professionals. Salary range for this position is $85k - $110k per year and heavily depends on experience.

    We also offer the following benefits:

  • Health care package for employee, dependents at employee cost
  • Paid vacation time
  • Holiday and sick pay
  • Paid maternity/paternity benefits
  • 401K plan
  • Brewery Branding is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability.

    o apply, submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@brewerybranding.com telling us a bit about yourself and why you think you would be a good fit for this job.

    ** Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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    Sewing Lead

    Position: Sewing Department Lead

    Location: Position is based in Milwaukie, OR

    FLSA Status: Non-Exempt/Hourly

    Reports to: Operations Lead

    Purpose

    Brewery Branding is the leading merchandise and promotional printing company for the craft brewing industry. We’re proud to offer tons of resources to help build brewers brands by providing in-house design, fulfillment, and on-line store management for our customers. We are looking for a proficient production sewing department lead to add to our new, state-of-the art custom sewing department.

    Core Responsibilities

    First things first…you must enjoy independent production work in a sewing shop and contribute to a team-based environment. The people we get to work with are the best and we expect nothing less from ourselves. The Sewing Lead position will be responsible for being the primary point of contact between the sewing department and other departments and will finds ways to keep communication flowing between departments and team members in a positive and productive way. The lead will be a key voice in department growth.

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    Essential Job Duties

  • Lead and manage team members within the sewing department
  • Welcomes constructive feedback from internal and external departments
  • Is a solution based thinker when problems arise
  • Checking and responding to Emails in a timely manner
  • Entering in and maintaining MeisterTask weekly production schedule
  • Distributing work throughout the week to the entire sewing team
  • Purchasing or directing the purchase of any proper threads and other related items for upcoming projects
  • Maintaining the patch backstock document, photos, and systems
  • Quality control, check alignment of patch placement, stitch length, tension, and thread color matching
  • Arranging projects for the weeks production
  • Be a positive voice for sewing room in meetings and with other departments
  • Build and manage maintenance program for all department equipment
  • Keep sewing department spaces clean and organized for efficiency and safety of team
  • Ability to work independently and with a team in a production-based environment
  • Lead a team to produce, world class, retail quality work with extreme consistency
  • Display a solid work ethic and can-do attitude
  • Excel within a system that demands attention to detail in both work output and working within a process
  • Must report to office daily with no remote work
  • About Us

    At Brewery Branding, we take our core principles very seriously. All team members should embrace and embody these values to support our purpose and be an active part of our culture.

    Brewery Branding’s Core Purpose

    At our core we believe it’s important to thrive as individuals and within a group by forming mutually beneficial relationships within the passionate and creative brewing industry.

    Our Core Values

    Operate with integrity. Be proud. Be positive. Be accountable. Be open to progress. Be your best, every day. Get your sh*t done and have fun doing it.

    Minimum Qualifications

  • Must have a great attitude
  • Need to love an organized and clean work space
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in an industrial sewing shop is preferred
  • Proficiency in industrial sewing applications is required
  • Must be able to follow directions
  • Have a high attention to detail
  • Supervisory Responsibility

    This role has supervised positions to manage

    Work Environment

    Due to the nature of the work, this position must report to the warehouse location in Milwaukie to perform duties.

    Education

    High School diploma or equivalent

    Physical Demands

    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee must be able to lift boxes of up to 40 lbs. The employee must be comfortable with sitting at a sewing station for extended periods of time and working with their hands and feet.

    Compensation

    Brewery Branding offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, rewarding work environment and growth for committed professionals. Starting wage of $20-24/hr with a 90-day review. Position is fulltime.

    We also offer the following benefits:

  • Health care package for employee, dependents at employee cost
  • Paid vacation time
  • Holiday and sick pay
  • 401K plan
  • Brewery Branding is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability.

    To apply, submit your resume and cover letter to jobs@brewerybranding.com telling us a bit about yourself and why you think you'd be a good fit for this job.

    ** Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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