Associate Brand Manager

Brand:

Bagel Brands is the parent company for your favorite breakfast brands, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Bruegger's Bagels, Noah's NY Bagels, and Manhattan Bagel. We believe in the bagel and how it has the unique ability to bring people together. Our team has a standard set of values and behaviors that allow us to spread a little more joy and happiness in the world. They let us laugh, smile, and enjoy each other's company a little more. These are the behaviors that guide how we work, how we treat each other, and how we treat our guests. We believe that there is no better way to make someone's day than with a warm, fresh-baked bagel and a heart-felt good morning.

The Associate Brand Manager, Menu role supports the development and execution of menu
innovation projects designed to drive guest satisfaction, frequency, and sales growth. This role helps manage the strategy, performance, and positioning of core menu items, ensuring they remain relevant, competitive, and profitable. The Associate Brand Manager partners closely with the Menu Marketing Director and cross-functionally with Culinary, Operations, Finance, and Marketing to deliver a menu that balances innovation, value, and brand commitments, while bringing insights and rigor to pricing, promotions, and product storytelling. The targeted annual salary range is $110,000/yr to $140,000/yr and eligible for annual bonus. We encourage local, Denver, CO based candidates to apply, though remote arrangements will be considered for the right fit. Address: 1720 S Bellaire St. Suite Skybox, Denver, Colorado 80222

Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to:

* Supports the development and project management of menu innovation concepts tasks fromideation through launch

* Partner with Culinary and cross-functional teams to refine concepts, confirm feasibility,
and align on business case inputs

* Coordinate testing and validation activities, including consumer research, operational
pilots, and financial assessments

* Coordinate the submission of IT POS (Point of Sale) Requests and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for loyalty and menu changes to ensure functionality and accuracy before launch based on direction from the Sr. Manager of Loyalty

* Conduct ongoing menu performance analysis (sales, mix, margin, transactions) and
provide recommendations for optimization

* Support pricing and promotional strategy for core items, in partnership with Finance andMarketing to balance value perception and profitability

* Develop positioning, messaging, and product stories that bring the menu to life across in-restaurant, digital, and campaign touchpoints

* Monitor guest insights and competitive trends to ensure the menu remains relevant anddifferentiated in the marketplace

* Collaborate with Operations to ensure execution is consistent and guest experience is optimized

* Track project progress within the stage-gate process, ensuring deadlines and
deliverables are met

* Monitor competitive and consumer trends to help inform the innovation pipeline and identifywhitespace opportunities

* Manage cross-functional testing and pilots for menu adjustments, ensuring scalability
and operational feasibility

* Prepare and present core menu updates, performance readouts, and recommendationsto senior leadership

* Proof marketing communications, menu pricing art files, and POP designs to ensure accuracy and brand alignment

* Manage and execute one-off marketing requests as needed

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

* Restaurant, hospitality, or retail industry experience preferred

* Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines

* Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and timelines

* Excellent people skills - able to build results-oriented relationships; strong partnering skills

* Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills needed for problem-resolution and brainstorming

Required:

* Bachelor's degree required

* Intermediate level skills with MS Office products (including Excel/Power BI, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams & SharePoint)

* Adobe Acrobat

Compensation Range:

*Starting pay is subject to Local and State Minimum Wage regulations.

**Ranges reflect what employer reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for such position.

The physical demands for this position are sits, stands, bends, lifts, and moves intermittently during working hours. These physical requirements may be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodations.

The duties of this position may change from time to time. Bagel Brands reserves the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of the company or its managers. This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive.

Bagel Brands is committed to providing equal employment opportunity, and fair treatment in employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender/gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, military status or any other basis in protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Bagel Brands makes employment decisions based solely on qualifications for the position.