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We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).
FBC UK was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.
We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Isle of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset and our HQ in St Albans. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.
We are currently the second biscuit manufacturer in the UK market with a strong ambition of becoming UK Market Leader.
Whilst we know that we have delicious products we also know that that the key ingredient to our success is our people, and the passion we have for our brands. You could be the jammy to our dodger, party ring to our Fox’s or the choc-chip to our Maryland?! We knead people with innovative ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the commitment to drive FBC UK to success.
What does your typical day look like?
We are looking for an ambitious and self-starting Assistant Brand Manager with a passion for brands & launching NPD , to help us continue to drive our range of great tasting sweet & savoury biscuits, working across our Savoury portfolio & supporting on Mars Biscuits
A great opportunity to have ownership of FBC’s leading savoury biscuit brand that growing +30% YOY PLUS working with the Brand Manager on some exciting new launches across the Mars Biscuits portfolio.
Other key actions will be but not limited to:
- Support the development of the 1-3 Year Vision & Strategy brand plan with execution of key brand activities identified in the brand planning process.
- Support the Brand Manager on NPD launches from “ideation” through to project launch.
- Coordinate cross-functional project teams to manage projects to deliver to time, budget, quality and milestones.
- Day to day contact with project teams, both FBC and License Partners Deliver against agreed P&L KPI’s – with regular monthly tracking vs budget and agreed in year targets (FBC and License Partners)
- Support brand consumer spend management, ensuring timely reporting, tracking and supplier payment.
- Lead and contribute to the overall tracking and reporting of brand performance i.e. financial, customer and market, and supporting the development of action planning as an output of the findings.
- Support the effective management of business variances (packaging stocks, write offs etc) through close working with Operations.
- Support and coordinate the identification and implementation of Cost Based Recovery initiatives, working closely with Finance Teams and Bakery Sites.
- Ensure adherence to Company processes and approval systems.
- Support the Brand Manager
What are the key ingredients needed for the role?
- Minimum 1-year industry experience (FMCG preferred, but not essential)
- Experience of successfully managing and delivering projects in FMCG marketing
- Experience of working and leading cross-functional teams
- Budget management
- Innovation experience / launching EPD / NPD
- Experience of BTL campaigns
- Ability to locate source data to build consumer / shopper understanding and build insight into strategy and plans.
- Experience of managing partners/ licensing relationships would be advantageous however not essential.
If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below.
