Innovation Assistant Brand Manager

My client is a category leading FMCG business who are looking for a Assistant Brand Manager to join their Marketing & Innovations team. This is a business that offers loads of great benefits, an exciting culture, training and progression opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Senior Brand Manager in the creation of the consumer journey touchpoints and in the creation of the relative content strategy including the coordination across agencies
• Take the lead in executing the brand experience across the consumer journey including the coordination of the activities across the all agency team
• Take the lead in optimising the live campaign and also evaluating efficiency and effectiveness of the campaign
• Support Brand Manager in the project management of medium to big innovation project
• Take the lead as project manager for specific project including lead on key meetings (e.g. Activity Review Meeting)
• Support Senior Brand Manager with data pulls for brand tracking, KPI tracking and Brand Portfolio Optimisation
• Responsible for raising and receipting POs and budget management
• Organise the ordering of product samples & keep samples readily available.
• Take the lead on ad hoc internal request (e.g. launches, internal comms etc)

Skills & Qualification

• Prior experience in the FMCG industry or in other Food companies/environment
• Knowledge of sales tracking systems (e.g. Nielsen or Kantar)
• Project management experience is a plus
• Basic knowledge of executional marketing levers (e.g. price, promo, place, product)
• International working experience across different market is a plus

Ideal Candidate

• Curiosity: constant search for learning opportunity and strong curiosity for the environment
• Bias For Action: strong can do attitude focusing on pragmatism
• Excellent consumer centric mindset
• Strong analytical skills – to be able to formulate conclusion and recommendation based on data insights
• Strong interpersonal skills

Salary: £25,000 – £30,000
Location: Flexible, 2 days in their West London office

Please apply on LinkedIn or email your CV to me directly at: aidan@vertical-advantage.com