Senior Brand Manager - Food & Drink SME
* Salary £50,000 - £60,000
* Car allowance
* Bonus
* 2 days in office. Hybrid working at its best!
About the business
This is a rare opportunity to join a immensely successful food & drinks businesses as a Senior Brand Manager to manage their total brand portfolio.
The products are category leading with multiple SKUS and gain plenty of success against their major competitors. They have in the last couple of years put significant investment in manufacturing, digital & category to ensure they can continue their double digit year on year growth for years to come. These guys know how to maximise their market position and they are nailing it. Not to mention they have the best culture going, constantly winning awards and they have a fantastic knack of retaining their best talent. They promote an autonomous working environment backed by immensely strong coaching and mentoring support.
The Role
We need a Senior Brand Manager or Brand Manager wanting to step up into this full mix marketing role. This is a unique opportunity to truly influence, shape and execute the simply outstanding brand strategy in the UK & EMEA.
This is a highly complex role which includes, working closely with manufacturing, supply, sales, PR & agency as well as having a direct report.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
* To create, shape and execute the 3-5 year brand portfolio vision, strategy and plan
* Brand and/or Portfolio Management including full P&L and Marketing Budget ownership
* Set your own and review branded pricing and promotional policies for the brands by channel.
* Excellent interpersonal skills, working closely to lead, inspire and influence key project teams and stakeholders e.g. Sales, Category, Finance, C-Suite
* Experience in developing and creating strong relationship with agencies, specifically ATL, design, BTL, PR agencies
* Get heavily involved with NPD working with focus groups, using data and customer insight to recommend possibilities
* Manging 1 direct report.
What we need from you
* Commerciality, creativity, strategic, passionate and excited about brands, people & marketing
* You must bring a big branded FMCG marketing background with UK end to end full mix marketing experience, including long-term strategic and annual brand planning
* A positive, forward, self-starter with the ability to work autonomously and looking to make a difference!
* Commercially minded with the ability to successfully prioritise workload
* Able to make recommendations and inspire and influence upward
* Plenty examples of working cross functionally.
Above all else we want fab people, this is a business that prides itself on its culture. Have fun while working and every person has a voice. If you really want a full ownership Brand Management role in a business that nurtures and develops people, this is it!
To stop the vagueness drop us a note and get in touch with team if this sounds like an opportunity you can get behind. Get in touch with us on 0207 4594877 or email us contact@ecwsearch.com