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Senior Brand Manager

Employer
SmithCarey Recruitment
Location
South West
Salary
To £62k + benefits
Closing date
30 Sep 2024
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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Marketing

Job Details

Senior Brand Manager
To £62
k + benefits
Based: South West / Bristol

The company

Our client is a household-name chilled foods company and a leading player in its category, supplying both brand and own-label products to the Grocery Multiples, Convenience and Foodservice trade channels. Product quality, innovation, NPD and creative marketing are the cornerstones of this well-established business together with a friendly, supportive and empowering business culture.

The role

Reporting to the Marketing Manager, you will be a consumer champion and ambassador for the health products portfolio within the company. You will be a proactive leader that inspires co-owners and galvanises their support by regularly showcasing the ambitious consumer-led growth plans aligned to this portfolio. Through a deep consumer understanding and specialised expertise, you will lead the current and future strategy, planning and tactical development of your brand portfolio, creating winning consumer value and growing demand to drive impactful, profitable sales.

Through strong collaboration with colleagues and external partners you will lead and contribute to projects as well as help others to solve complex problems that successfully enable the delivery of our client’s vision, long term strategy and health ambitions. The position is office based, with the flexibility to work from home two days per week.

About you

You have a strong track record working on FMCG brands in the UK or other grocery sectors. You possess proven experience in brand management including strategic and tactical planning. With c. 3-5 years’ marketing experience, you are confident in developing and implementing insight-led brand plans and in commissioning consumer research and writing strong agency briefs.

Your experience should include leading NPD and EPD projects from concept to launch. You have honed your presentation skills, selling into retailer buyers. You are competent working with IRI EPOS data and Kantar panel data.

You are currently a Senior Brand Manager, looking for your next challenge, or an ambitious Brand Manager, looking to step up into a Senior Brand Manager position. You are highly personable, curious, commercially intelligent, and can demonstrate a flexible and adaptable approach to managing change and ambiguity.

Interested? Please apply below or email Maria at mariam@smithcarey.co.uk quoting MM/2481, including full details of your current benefits package. Alternatively, call Maria Murphy for an initial confidential discussion on 0774 518 4922.

Closing date for applications: 30th September 2024

Company

As specialists in Sales & Marketing Recruitment and Training, SmithCarey Ltd have extensive knowledge and experience of the FMCG market and all trade channels from the recruitment and corporate perspective, which together with face-to-face contact ensures that we understand both our clients and candidates needs. We are fully committed to building long-term client and candidate relationships based on trust and results, which ensures candidates can effectively manage their ‘career road map’ and get the right job, not just any job, as well as ensuring our clients select the best talent.

We are passionate and committed to helping ambitious, commercial talent achieve their potential in some of food and drink’s most progressive and respected companies.

Our services at SmithCarey embrace retained recruitment consultancy, interim management and training, with our FMCG clients ranging from major bluechips to medium and small companies across food, drink and non-food, branded and own label.

Spanning both the corporate and the recruitment viewpoint, our Consultants have an outstanding track record of knowledge and experience in the FMCG market – specifically Sales & Marketing, including; National Account Management, Category Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Sales, International Sales Management and Brand Marketing.

We take our relationship with you, the candidate - and you, the client - very seriously. What you can expect from us is honest advice and real assistance at an individual level. We understand your concerns, we can get on your wavelength, and we can produce the results you want – be it a major career move to steer you in the right direction with your future ‘career road map’ or simply some welcome guidance and support.

The SmithCarey team are passionate in their belief that companies who want to attract top talent need to invest and take a more proactive approach, even before vacancies arise, by creating an employer branding talent attraction strategy. We have invested heavily in both resource and new technology to embrace the LinkedIn/Facebook generation, through social networking tools and other media.

Everything we do is done with passion, professionalism and integrity. We operate with strict confidentiality and never send out CVs without prior consent, recommend candidates without thorough screening or market false positions to attract response.

Our message to people who have the drive and energy to be a success is to come and talk to us. We can help by advising you what’s out there, provide support with your ‘career roadmap’ for how you might progress, together with advice on how to make it happen and, who knows, we might have the perfect position for you right now!

Take a look at our current opportunities; then email with a covering letter, stating your current remuneration package and a copy of your CV to one of our Consultants.

For Recruitment:

Mark Smith - mark@smithcarey.co.uk - mobile 07747 847214

Maria Murphy – mariam@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07745 184922

For Training:

Paul Carey - paul@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07786 745165

Or for any other general enquiries call 01488 649360 or email: directors@smithcarey.co.uk or visit our website www.smithcarey.co.uk

We look forward to helping you manage your future ‘career road map’ and assisting you in building a successful Sales or Marketing career in the exciting world of FMCG.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01488 649 360
Location
SmithCarey Limited
PO Box 735
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 9PH
United Kingdom

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