what you'll be doing

Here at innocent, we’re going through an exciting period of growth, getting our drinks into the fridges of more drinkers across Europe. We’re looking for someone great to join the newly established central Insight & Category Strategy team as the European Category Strategy manager.

You will be responsible for leading the development of the European category strategy, identifying and building the key category growth drivers across Europe to impact decision making and build winning plans. To deliver this successfully, you’ll be a brilliant facilitator, highly skilled at bringing people together and fostering collaboration. You’ll work closely with the Insight Planners, the Market Data Manager and the Insight leads in each of our regions.

Externally, you’ll have your ‘finger on the pulse’ through monitoring market, category and competitor data, developing clear and simple narratives for the business. You’ll elevate consumer, shopper and category understanding across the central marketing team and our key geographies, by creating a culture of continuous insight and ensuring category insight is at the forefront of new ideas.

Overall, this role brings together category, market and consumer insight to deliver the triple win – growing the category for our customers and strengthening and growing the innocent brand and business.

you'll have

• Experience of category development with a strong grasp of the principles of category strategy and how to translate these into actionable commercial opportunities. You’ll have experience of working with market data (such as Kantar, Nielsen etc.) and using it to understand performance and unlock opportunities for the business.

• Strong analytical skills, with a talent for connecting different data sources and joining the dots to make simple, logical and compelling narratives

• Strong leadership skills and you’ll be a team player. You’ll need to be great with people, and thrive working collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will be  a compelling communicator, working effectively with key stakeholders and influencing at a senior level. Agency-side experience is a plus, but not a must.

• A global and future-thinking mindset. International experience is a plus.

you'll get

The chance to be part of a European Marketing team, that has just been restructured to put the consumer and category insight firmly at the heart of business decision making.  This is an exciting opportunity to work across Europe to influence decision-making and shape the future direction of innocent.

Working for our brand that is purpose-led, on a journey to be good all round, with a clear vision for growth and values led in the approach.  You’ll also get amazing Learning & Development support. This is an exciting opportunity to work across Europe to influence decision-making and shape the future direction of innocent.

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love to hear from you. You'll need to get your skates on though, as applications close on 11 May. 
 

Dolly Parton may have worked Nine to Five but you don't have to. We're open to a chat about flexible working. No promises, but we reckon that if it's good for you, then it's good for us.

We're all about building a workplace for the future here at innocent, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves.

You’ll help us to keep doing business the right way – keeping innocent an inclusive and inspiring place to work, using our B Corp status to inspire wider change, and reinforcing our culture of staying little as we grow big.