Marketing Manager

Role Overview

The Marketing Manager will lead and execute marketing strategies across multiple businesses within The Food Source umbrella. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, supporting B2B sales, R&D, and leadership teams in a technical food ingredient environment. This role is critical to improving brand consistency, sales enablement, lead generation, and go-to-market effectiveness across multiple operating entities.

Success in This Role Looks Like:

• Sales teams consistently use and trust marketing materials.
• Marketing assets clearly communicate technical capabilities and customer value.
• Marketing execution scales as the business grows.
• Marketing assets deliver the clear message, consistent with the tone and voice of the brand.
• Leadership and sales see marketing as a strategic and operational partner.

Key Responsibilities

• Marketing Strategy & Brand Management
• Develop and manage B2B marketing strategies across multiple Food Source businesses.
• Maintain consistent brand positioning while supporting distinct business units and service lines.
• Translate technical capabilities into clear customerfacing value propositions.
• Partner with leadership, sales, R&D, and operations to align marketing priorities with commercial goals.
• Support internal needs with creative marketing requirements, such as recruiting, employee engagement, and morale.
• Oversee the marketing functions of a small support team, including those with marketing responsibilities as a portion of their role, as well as those still developing the marketing acumen.

Marketing Production & Execution

Manage day-to-day marketing production activities including:

• Design and creation of sales and marketing materials
• PowerPoint presentations (sales decks, customer presentations, internal training)
• Product demonstration support materials
• Promotional items and branded collateral
• Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors (designers, printers, agencies).
• Website maintenance and updates.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and aligned with brand standards.
• Own asset organization, version control, and accessibility for sales teams.
• Coordinate management of assets and inventory.

Sales Enablement & Customer Support

• Develop tools and materials that directly support sales conversations.
• Collaborate with sales to identify material gaps and improve close rates.
• Support product launches, customer visits, and trade events.
• Ensure marketing assets are practical, technical, and easy for sales teams to deploy.

Planning, Workflow & Project Management

• Manage marketing calendars, project timelines, and priorities across businesses.
• Balance multiple workstreams and business needs without losing execution quality.
• Continuously improve marketing workflows and vendor relationships.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Sales Enablement Impact

• Adoption and usage of marketing materials by sales teams
• Sales feedback on material effectiveness
• Reduction in custom/oneoff material requests

Delivery & Execution

• Ontime completion of marketing projects
• Budget adherence for marketing production and promotional spend
• Cycle time from request to delivery

Brand Consistency & Quality

• Consistency of messaging across businesses and materials
• Quality and clarity of technicaltocommercial translation
• Stakeholder satisfaction scores (sales, R&D, leadership)

Efficiency & Scalability

• Improved reuse of marketing assets across brands
• Vendor cost efficiency and performance
• Improved internal workflows and reduced rework

Qualifications

• 5+ years of B2B marketing experience, preferably in food or technical services.
• Strong experience supporting B2B sales organizations.
• Proven ability to manage multiple brands or business units simultaneously.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation development experience.
• Comfort working in a technical, R&Ddriven environment.
• Ability to work crossfunctionally and manage multiple priorities.

Reports To: VP of Business Development

Supervisory responsibilities: Yes

Backup:

Physical Requirements:

• Work involves sitting most of the workday greater than 50% of the time. Walking and standing are required as needed.
• Typing and applying pressure with the fingers and palm required.
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Work environment/Hours:

• The work environment: temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
• Fulltime Office hours are typically 8:305:00pm, MondayFriday with occasional overtime.

Travel—percentage of travel time is expected for the position where the travel occurs, such as locally or in specific countries or states, and whether the travel is overnight.

Additional eligibility qualifications, additional requirements such as certifications, industry-specific experience and experience working with certain equipment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by the law.