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Marketing & Innovation Executive

Employer
DR Newitt
Location
West London
Salary
£30,000
Closing date
31 Oct 2014

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Marketing

Job Details

Do you live and breathe food? We are looking for an experienced Marketing & Innovation Executive with a passion for all things culinary to come on board with a fantastic company in West London.

 You will be responsible for the integration and consolidation of the company’s two main brands, and driving the marketing campaign to introduce the products to the food service industry. This is a high end product, so clients will include Michelin-starred fine dining restaurants and trendy gastro pubs/cafes. Following on the success from this campaign, you will take the products to market with the Multiples (gorgeous boutique retailers and fancy-pants delis).

The Role:

  • First things first – writing! You will be responsible for building a genuine passion surrounding the product, and your writing style must be appealing, fun and informative for foodies, chefs and retailers
  • Assisting with the brand integration and seeding into various markets
  • Social media – You will work across multiple social media platforms to promote the product and build a consumer base, extensive knowledge of and experience in this area is vital
  • Heavy involvement with tasting driven event activity
  • Innovating new marketing ideas to promote the product to the target market

The Ideal Candidate:

  • To be successful for this role you must, must, be passionate about food. Your marketing experience may have come from a different industry, but the right candidate for this role will have maintained (over a long period of time) a food blog/website/freelance work that can attest to this. Examples of this will be asked for, and is one of the key requirements for this role
  • A minimum of 2-3 years in a Marketing role
  • Excellent experience with social media platforms, particularly Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter. The successful candidate is the type to already have these accounts personally, showcasing their love for the food industry
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills and a range of creative software experience
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and strong personal presentation skills
  • Innovative, creative, friendly, fun, food-mad, hard-working, bright – need we go on?

This is the dream job for a Marketer looking to combine their love of culinary magic with their innate creativity and marketing skills. The successful candidate will receive a salary of up to £30,000.

This role is available immediately, so if you’ve read it and thought ‘yep, that’s me’, then send through your resume without delay, as interviews will be commencing straight away. 

Company

D R Newitt are Food, Drink and FMCG recruitment specialists providing permanent and interim recruitment services: 

We offer Headhunting, Search & Selection and Advertising services across the following disciplines:
•    Sales
•    Marketing and Category
•    Executive
•    Supply Chain / Buying
•    Technical / Quality
•    NPD / Process / Development Chefs
•    Operations / Manufacturing
•    Engineering
•    HR and Finance

To enquire about a specific role or to have a confidential discussion about your career path, call or email us:

  • Edinburgh Office 0131 226 5060 
  • Manchester Office 0161 833 0181

Register@drnewitt.com

Company info
Website
Telephone
0131 226 5060
Location
3rd floor 2 Lochrin Square
96 fountainbridge
Edinburgh
Midlothian
Eh3 9QA
United Kingdom

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