Associate Marketing Communications Manager

Darigold is seeking an experienced and motivated Associate Marketing Communications Manager to join our Marketing team! The Associate Marketing Communications Manager supports the Senior Manager of Marketing Communications in bringing the Darigold brand to life across channels and audiences.

This role blends operational discipline with creative support—executing integrated communications plans, managing key logistics and serving as a connective thread across agency partners, internal teams and customer-facing programs. It is an ideal role for an early-career marketer who is eager to grow, organize and contribute across a dynamic and collaborative marketing environment.

Darigold is the fifth largest dairy cooperative in the United States based on milk volume and one of the largest privately held organizations headquartered in the state of Washington. Since 1918, our producers have taken pride in producing dairy products with unsurpassed quality. Today, we are one of the nation's largest agricultural cooperatives, producing over 8.5 billion pounds of milk every year.

Through innovative technology and our efficient, flexible production capabilities, we deliver value added products and customer-driven solutions. Darigold is now known throughout the world for bringing fresh, wholesome dairy products and ingredients from the Northwest to people all around the globe.

What You Will Do:

• Support the Senior Manager in building integrated marketing communications plans that align brand strategy with business objectives.
• Execute plans inside Retail Media Network customer portals, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and alignment with campaign objectives.
• Drive Agency partner Action Register next steps and timelines, ensuring accountability and follow-through across all agency deliverables.
• Organize and execute B2C summits 2–4 times per year, including building decks and agendas, coordinating speakers and managing all event logistics.
• Support Senior Brand Managers on deck building and storytelling for internal and external presentations.
• Support sponsorship strategy by helping to manage and organize logistics of key events and brand sponsorships.
• General marketing and commercial team support and B2B support when needed.
• Help manage internal communication programs and support employee engagement alignment initiatives.
• Join the Senior Manager on customer and vendor meetings to capture strategic notes, action items and next steps.
• Budget and invoice management, including tracking spend against planned tactics.
• Act as the gatekeeper for incoming customer and co-pack requests—including RFPs—regarding quality, capabilities and other upfront informational needs. This is a facilitation role and is not designed to replace QA or operational responsibilities.

What You Will Bring:

• 1–3 years of progressive experience in marketing communications, brand strategy or a related field.
• BA/BS in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
• Understanding of marketing communications, brand strategy and audience engagement.
• Strong writing, editing and storytelling skills across formats and platforms.
• Ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling messages.
• Skilled in managing cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Understanding of digital marketing tools, analytics platforms and content management systems.

Benefits of Working at Darigold

We understand that as an employee, the benefits that support you and your family in and out of work are important. We are proud to offer eligible positions a competitive total rewards package that includes:

• 401K with competitive employer matching
• Comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits
• Employer-paid life & disability coverage
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• 8 weeks (about 2 months) paid parental Leave
• Education assistance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement where it applies (up to 2 days/week after initial 90 days and approval by hiring manager and HR)
• Compensation range: $87,561.06-$131,341.59 (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge, and skills)

Our Commitment to Diversity

Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. As a condition of employment, applicants offered a role will be required to successfully pass our pre-employment background screen, receive a negative drug screen result & confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. We participate in E-Verify - please follow the links for details, English / Spanish & view our Right to Work Statement, English / Spanish .