Senior Shopper Marketing Manager

Company

An excellent opportunity for a passionate Senior Shopper Marketing Manager to join a highly successful FMCG leader in the drinks sector. With an outstanding portfolio of high profile consumer brands, this business is well known for its sales and marketing excellence and strong distributor relationships.

Role

The Senior Shopper Marketing Manager will be responsible for heading up a team of three working within the Convenience and RTM channel and will shape the Shopper Marketing strategy for the channel as well as developing annual Shopper Marketing plans that bring the strategy to life within key customers. Using strategic capability and commercial acumen, this role is in essence, is responsible for attracting new shoppers to the brands, or existing customers on new occasions. The Senior Shopper Marketing Manager will also have accountability for the coaching and development of the team and championing a coaching, learning and development culture across the function.

Skills required

You will be required to have strong Shopper Marketing expertise with solid experience of developing and delivering commercially grounded marketing activity in to customers. This experience must have been gained from within an FMCG organisation and come from working with multiple customers across different channels. You will have strong commercial acumen and understanding of category and be a very strong strategic thinker, with the ability to shape a vision and create an annual plan, engaging key parties  to deliver to a customer. As well as the technical ability you will possess strong leadership capability and demonstrable success with challenging and influencing internal stakeholders.

Mackenzie Jones

About Mackenzie Jones

At Mackenzie Jones we connect people within FMCG Food and Drink businesses. We connect talented candidates with exciting Marketing opportunities. 
We manage permanent and interim assignments both in the UK and internationally. Opportunities range from £40k to £90k for permanent roles, and £250 to £1,200 a day for interim assignments. 
If you need a recruitment partner with a different outlook, one that delivers results whilst building long-term relationships, then we should talk. Or alternatively, if you are considering that next step in your Marketing career, get in touch to see how we can help you achieve your goals.