Senior Brand Manager - RTD/Beer

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Location: Dallas, TX, US, 75201 Modesto, CA, US, 95354 Chicago, IL, US, 60613 New York City, NY, US, 10010

Work Category: Hybrid Telecommute (Dallas, TX and Modesto, CA) and Remote (Chicago, IL and NYC, NY)

We’re a family-owned company with a 90+ year legacy, that’s consistently recognized as a Glassdoor “Best Places to Work.” We have 130+ brands in our total alcohol beverage portfolio including wine, malt, spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages. We’re home to the #1 wine and spirits brands in the U.S. - Barefoot Wine & High Noon and are the official sponsors of the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America.

View our Corporate Values and Mission Statement here.

Location: Must be willing and able to be based in Dallas, TX (Requires 4 days per week onsite) OR Modesto, CA (Requires 3 days per week onsite) or Chicago, IL (Remote) or New York City, NY (Remote)

A Taste of What You'll Do

As Senior Brand Manager, RTD/Beer, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the strategy, growth, and performance of assigned brands while serving as a key company leader across the RTD and beer categories. You’ll own the full brand journey, connecting consumer insights, innovation, communications, go-to-market strategy, financial performance, and execution to build brands that win with consumers and customers.

You’ll lead strategic brand planning, manage the P&L and A&P budget, optimize the portfolio, and use consumer, customer, and channel insights to identify opportunities for sustainable growth. Working closely with Sales, Finance, regional marketing teams, agencies, distributors, and other cross-functional partners, you’ll translate strategy into compelling programs that build brand equity and deliver measurable business results.

You’ll also help bring our brands to life through experiential marketing, trade activation, sampling, sponsorships, media, creative, PR, and consumer engagement. From developing breakthrough creative platforms and innovation strategies to evaluating ROI and evolving execution in-market, you’ll have the opportunity to influence both the short-term performance and long-term health of the portfolio.

Ideal candidates will bring a strong background in the beer industry, with demonstrated experience in beer brand management, marketing, or related commercial roles.

What You'll Need

• Master’s degree plus 5 years of marketing, media, or communications experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of marketing, media, or communications experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of Gallo Spirits or RTD marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Master’s degree plus 4 years of Gallo Spirits or RTD marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR High School Diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 11 years of marketing, media or communications experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Beer or RTD industry experience.
• Brand Management experience.
• Experience effectively presenting information to top management, public groups and boards of directors.
• Experience managing multiple agency partners across a variety of disciplines including creative, media, PR and experiential.
• Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
• Required to travel up to 50% of the time in-market in order to conduct job duties.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

How You'll Stand Out

• Master’s degree plus 8 years of marketing, media, or communications experience including at least 6 years of Beer, RTD or Spirits experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years of marketing, media, or communications experience including at least 7 years of Beer, RTD or Spirits experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility. Experiential marketing and event management experience. Multi-cultural marketing experience (particularly with Hispanic consumer).
• Experience managing large media budgets. Experience running sports and entertainment marketing (media and experiential) Experience training and developing junior level brand marketers in executing brand and organizational objectives. Experience managing business operations and leveraging basic finance and accounting principles.
• Skilled in reading, analyzing and interpreting common scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents. Experience responding to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies or members of the business community. Experience writing speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Skilled in interpreting an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Experience performing work that is complex and varied in nature, requiring frequent evaluation, originality or ingenuity. Skilled in the use of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS database at an intermediate level; IRI, Brio and Spectra at a basic level.

We are committed to providing competitive compensation, perks, and a culture that supports your well-being. Benefits depend on your work category and may include medical and dental coverage, 401k plans, profit sharing, pet insurance, company holidays, access to an employee wine shop, and more! Additional information will be provided before your first interview.

The Fine Print

• The Company does not sponsor for employment-based visas for this position now or in the future.
• We offer a broad salary range to allow for long-term growth. Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by multiple factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case‑by‑case basis related to these factors. In addition to the salary, this position may be eligible for bonuses, incentive plans, or participate in tasting room tip pools, as applicable.
• This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting with an option for occasional telecommuting. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.
• It is the Company’s policy for job postings to be open to internal candidates for a minimum of 5 days and to external candidates, if applicable, for a minimum of 3 days.

Gallo’s policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibiting discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off‑day use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non‑psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at View phone number on click.appcast.io.

Gallo is enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program and will use the program to verify the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees as required.