Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA

Our client:

• Extremely successful, global market leading FMCG consumer brand, with £multibillion turnover
• Customers first choice in the sector they operate, highly innovative with extremely high levels of consumer engagement across all channels.
• Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA is a dynamic role with responsibility for driving sales, profit and brand growth across EMEA.
• Fantastic culture with a genuine care and focus on employees.
• Role split between West London office (2 days a week) and home (3 days a week) Will involve 30% overseas travel.

The role:

• As Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA you will be responsible for building and maximising senior stakeholder commercial relationships across EMEA across a complex diverse category of FMCG products.
• The Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA will lead on annual strategic planning for the region including financial plans, quarterly business reviews and monthly.
• In the role the Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA will work cross functionally with insights, innovation, finance etc to drive execution of projects that deliver targeted sales and profit.
• Having a equal mix of strategy and execution responsibility the Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA will manage and develop a marketing manager and will ensure all strategic marketing and brand plans for EMEA are executed effectively
• Developing a broad understanding of consumer, customer, shopper and the co sales and commercial agenda across a multi country geography.

Ideal candidate:

• You will have in depth broad commercial experience across Sales, Brand, Marketing, Category and Strategy gained from a global FMCG brand this ideally will be from a complex category and will involve experience of working with various international markets and cultures.
• As Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA you will have well rounded experience across sales and marketing and will have the ambition and drive to progress to a future director’s position.
• It is essential to have fantastic stakeholder engagement, relationship building and communication skills both internally and externally.
• You will be comfortable regularly communication with senior individuals including board level.
• You will be using data and insights to drive decision making and will be able to demonstrate the rigor and attention to detail required for this role. 
• The Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA will be able to demonstrate an equal mix of strategy and execution throughout their career.
• The culture of this brand thrives in matrix working and building strong relationships is key to success.
• The Senior Commercial Channel Manager EMEA will demonstrate excellent leadership and will be comfortable navigating ambiguity of a large complex multi-national organisation.  
• In this entrepreneurial environment it is essential that you have excellent project management experience along with the ability to drive engagement and execution across the wider business.
• You will thrive in a matrix blue chip structure that is down to earth, caring and personable.

Benefits & details:

• Excellent package – up to £100,000 plus car allowance, bonus and excellent benefits  
• Location = Role split between West London office (2 days a week) and home (3 days a week) plus will involve 30% international travel (approx.  6 planned trips a year 4 days each) 

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