Superb opportunity to join an entrepreneurial and dynamic £1bn+ FMCG business with a portfolio of well-known, quality food brands sold across the globe. We’re looking for a smart FMCG-trained marketer at JBM or BM level, looking for their next step up in a challenging and busy role with great opportunities to demonstrate your brand building skills and flair.

In this challenging role, you’ll own an important (and delicious!) growth brand for the business; driving trial, penetration and enjoyment in households across the UK. You’ll also provide support on another category-leading brand; working on projects across the mix, including developing retail activations, digital & social media initiatives and working cross-functionally on brand innovations and launches, within a lively, busy and empowered team.

This is a role for a highly-motivated, high-energy, results-driven FMCG or consumer goods marketer with a minimum of 3-4 years’ solid experience working on FMCG brands.

Key skills required:

• Passionate and ambitious brand champion with proven success working with well-known FMCG brands, ideally including some food & drinks experience.
• A strong interest in foods, as well as a natural curiosity for consumer and market issues and trends and new product launches.
• Proven strategic thinking skills, able to harness consumer and customer insights and make strategic and tactical brand and business recommendations.
• Strong team-working skills, used to working cross-functionally, in particular with sales, finance, operations and R&D/product development teams.
• Specific experience in managing NPD and packaging design projects with a good understanding of stage/project management processes.
• Knowledge of continuous insight data, and ideally some exposure to ad-hoc research techniques focused around NPD concept development and testing.
• Proactive self-starter who can work at speed, take ownership and make things happen in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• An understanding of commercial and financial issues, used to managing P&Ls and reporting on performance.
• First class communication and presentation skills

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