Regional Category & Marketing Planning Specialist
$84,750–$124,300 year
HybridNorthridge, California, United States
Job Summary
Partner with Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain to support new product launch planning, commercialization activities, and go-to-market execution for HARMAN's Lifestyle Consumer Audio portfolio. Analyze product, category, and market performance data to generate insights for business planning and forecasting. Serve as the primary liaison to the North America Sales organization to ensure product assets, documentation, and pricing information are accurate and readily available. Manage product sample inventory, ordering, allocation, and distribution to support media reviews, customer presentations, and events. Lead consumer review programs through third-party platforms and manage personalized product orders for marketing programs. Review product and lifestyle marketing assets to ensure compelling, consumer-centric communication of features and benefits. Support product marketing budget management through expense tracking, forecasting, and reporting. Address ad hoc packaging reviews and compliance initiatives for North American sales.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing or business-related field
- Minimum of 2 years of marketing or agency experience
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to drive projects and tasks to completion
- High level of quality
- Anticipating needs
- Resolving gaps
- Addressing follow-up requirements proactively
- Ability to collaborate efficiently across teams
- Collaboration with senior management
- Effective communicator (oral and written)
- Creative thinker
- Ability to use data to inform decisions
- Ability to use input to inform decisions
- Ability to use intuition to inform decisions
- Highly resourceful
- Solution-oriented
- Ability to proactively seek out answers
- Utilize available data
- Leverage team resources
- Overcome roadblocks
- Openness to new ideas
- Desire to continuously learn
- Desire to develop new skills
- Willing to travel up to 10%
- Ability to work in the Northridge, CA office three days a week
- Flexibility in working hours
- Successfully complete a background investigation
- Drug screen as a condition of employment
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing or business-related field preferred
- Bonus Points if You Have Creative thinker
- Capable and comfortable with generating innovative ideas
- Proven ability to create unique and compelling positioning
- Proven ability to create compelling messaging
- Passion for consumer electronics
- Passion for product innovation
- Passion for marketing
- Strong curiosity to learn
- Contribution to the continued growth of one of the most recognized brands in audio – JBL
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