Senior Shopper & Brand Marketing Manager, Food

My client is a global food business with a multibillion pound turn over. They operate predominately in Spain, France and Benelux currently, however through a recent joint venture, the business is creating a whole new business unit in the UK and are now recruiting for a Senior Shopper & Brand Marketing Manager to kick-start the marketing function of the UK business!

The role is suitable for someone with strong shopper/trade marketing experience, as well as someone with good brand marketing / brand architecture understanding that is looking to transition into a hybrid marketing role. You will act as the most senior marketing person within the UK function. As you progress and develop you will have the opportunity to build a full marketing team around you and will also set yourself up to step into a Marketing Manager role as you progress and develop in the role.

As a Shopper & Brand Marketing Manager you will:

• Manage and deliver on all Shopper/Trade Marketing initiatives including BTL line marketing activity for all brands with their most valuable Grocery customers in the Off-Trade.
• Develop and activate marketing initiatives across all customer platforms and across the path to purchase.
• Manage day to day relationships with relevant customer teams and run the activation calendars, ensuring plans are delivered to meet the needs of retailers and shoppers.

As a Senior Shopper & Brand Marketing Manager you will have:

• Strong commercial experience in an FMCG environment within a Shopper/Trade marketing function, preferably food but not essential
• Good understanding of brand marketing / brand architecture / brand building
• Experience of working in cross functional teams
• Strong project management
• Strong internal and external communication skills
• French/Spanish speaker, though not essential would be a bonus!
• Creative with an eye for new ideas
• Ability to identify insight and deliver projects through to action

Location: South London
Hybrid structure; likely 2 days a week in the office

Salary: up to £55,000 + c.£9,000 car allowance + 15% bonus