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Senior Brand Manager

Employer
Advocate Group
Location
St Albans
Salary
£54k - 57k per year + £6.5k car allowance + bonus
Closing date
7 Aug 2019

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

Job Details

  • Are you a passionate and energetic Brand Manager with a bright future?
  • Have you been looking for the opportunity to join an FMCG Market Leader?
  • Are you wanting to work on one of the Nation’s favourite brands?

This FMCG market leading company had a phenomenal year last year with multiple awards for their NPD & Innovation which is set to continue this year too! They pride themselves on being an employer of choice. By providing a great working environment offering scope, support and opportunity, they can ensure they support their employees in achieving their career plans. You will come on board as part of their Marketing Team where your main focus will be to drive, develop and grow one of their multi-million pound flagship brand portfolios.

As the Senior Brand Manager you will be the owner and leader for one of the UK’s favourite brand ranges within snacking and confectionery. They have amazing development plans for the year and the first company to be making a health focussed snack bar within their field. They need someone who can bring the brands to the people. This is through a multi-channel – big budget plan. This is a company where you can plan, design and implement very quickly too.

This is an opportunity for either a Brand Manager looking to make a name for themselves or a Senior Brand Manager looking for more freedom and the chance to work on big budget ATL.

You will:

  • Lead the development of the 3 year vision & strategy brand plan with execution of key brand activities identified in the brand planning process.
  • Contribute and input into the development and execution of brand initiatives alongside key stakeholders.
  • Deliver against agreed P&L KPI’s.
  • Full responsibility for an ATL & BTL budget including TV & Digital.
  • Ownership of brand consumer spend management, ensuring timely reporting, tracking and supplier payment.
  • Lead the overall tracking and reporting of brand performance i.e. financial, customer and market, and supporting the development of action planning as an output of the findings.
  • Effective management of business variances (packing stocks, write offs etc) through close working with Operations.
  • Lead the identification and implementation of Cost Based Recovery initiatives, working closely with Finance Teams and Bakery Sites.
  • Responsible for the full NPD funnel from “ideation” through to project launch and beyond.
  • Lead cross-functional teams to deliver against NPD projects for that financial year.
  • Lead project teams and manage projects to deliver to time, budget, quality and milestones.
  • Ensure adherence to Company processes and approval systems.

You’ll also have an Assistant Brand Manager reporting into you, a key part of the role will be to support, mentor and develop them.

You will have:

  • Proven track record in brand management.
  • Experience of delivery of FMCG marketing with a branded manufacturer.
  • Experience of New Product Development
  • Experience of working within food and snacking advantageous but not essential.
  • Proven record of successful business or marketing project delivery.
  • Leading teams.
  • Evidence of assisting development of new products, brand plans, packaging design changes and promotions.
  • Budgetary monitoring.
  • Experience in consumer led brand activation as well as developing ATL.
  • Ability to locate source data to build consumer / shopper understanding and build insight into strategy.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter to or alternatively submit your application via the link below.

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Company

We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.

As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function. 

Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists. 

Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.

What Do We Offer?

  • 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.

That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.

  • 96% employee retention.

Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.

  • 92% right-first-time shortlists.

Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.

  • 28 days average time to hire.

From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.

Our Recruitment Solutions:

Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping

Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:

📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/

Company info
Website
Telephone
0333 772 7200
Location
The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB

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