Brand Manager
- Employer
- Better Placed Recruitment
- Location
- West Yorkshire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 12 May 2017
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Marketing
Job Details
Brand Manager
Haribo are now recruiting for a Brand Manager!
We are looking for an experienced Brand Manager to join the business on a permanent basis.
This is a fantastic role working with one of the UK’s best loved brands, leading the strategy and product development of high profile projects.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the development and implementation of product portfolio projects including tactical NPD to drive short term growth
- Work with local and international stakeholders to drive strategic projects of global / UK importance
- Work with cross functional teams to manage the implementation of product and packaging overhauls / optimisation projects; ensuring initiatives are delivered successfully, on time with minimal write-off costs
- Ownership and management of product administration related to portfolio business including critical paths, new launch forms, amendments; pack tests, artwork approvals etc.
- Co-ordinate the execution and post-launch tracking of product portfolio specific activations
- Requires close co-operation with Sales to implement account specific initiatives
- Global involvement and liaison – Germany head office and European teams
Key areas covered:
Range management of:
- Traditional range: Wine Gums, Jelly Babies
- Marshmallow: Chamallows
- Liquorice: Pontefract Cakes and Liquorice Favourites
- Extruded: Balla Balla, Rainbow Range
- Starch: Giant Strawbs, Strawbs
- G&Js: Goldbears and others
Portfolio format management: (e.g. Pic n Mix, Bulk and Countline, Multi-packs, etc.)
- Customer led projects /major initiatives
- NPD Pool Management
- Conscious Range: Vegetarian, Halal, Sugar Reduced
Company
With an enviable client list of blue chip FMCG businesses, Better Placed focuses on the recruitment of Sales and Marketing professionals across the UK. Working from offices in Leeds and Manchester, our team of highly experienced Consultants have built relationships with a wide range of companies in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands as well as elsewhere in the UK.
In many cases we are preferred supplier to these businesses operating on an exclusive basis. We operate at all levels from graduate through to Director and our team are widely acknowledged as specialists in their chosen vertical markets.At Better Placed we focus on our candidates as much as our clients and we understand that failure to do so will slow the rapid growth that we have seen since our inception in 2002. Our track record of maintaining long term relationships with both candidates and clients is testament to how seriously we take this and is a fundamental part of what we stand for.
- Website
- http://www.betterplaced.com/
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