Pricing and Promotions Manager

Refresco BV

Refresco, the world’s largest independent soft drinks manufacturer, is seeking a Pricing and Promotions Manager based at our Kegworth head office. We are fast-paced, hugely customer-driven, always looking to innovate, develop and improve what we do, and this creates the opportunity for you to develop and grow your career with us. Our people are friendly, open, and approachable, hugely supportive, and we have undergone high growth and high change over the past 5 years and expect to again double in size over the next 5 years.

Pricing and Promotions Manager
Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am – 4pm
Permanent
Hybrid (2 days work from home)

Reward & Benefits:

• Annual bonus
• Company pension scheme
• An early finish on a Friday
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Purchase additional holidays
• Hybrid working (2 days working from home)
• Free on site parking
• GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
• Cheers – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all
• Employees

About the Role:
Reporting to the Head of Marketing, Pricing and Promotions Manager is responsible for the planning and co-ordination of the annual Trade Marketing budget for the Refresco UK brands portfolio (circa £3m). The Pricing and Promotions Manager’s role as the trade expert will help to ensure that profitable growth is achieved for the brand portfolio. Understanding the complexities of each channel and customer are integral in this role. Channel Marketing plays a cruicial role in overseeing promotional expenses and trade investments in alignment with the yearly budget. It also actively contributes to spotting and capitalizing on opportunities within the brand portfolio. The position is responsible for establishing effective systems, protocols, and best practices to efficiently manage trade spending and investments.

As the Pricing and Promotions Manager here are your key areas of focus:

• Approval of all Pricing and Promotions across retail and wholesale inline with promotional calendars and agreed pricing from Head of Marketing / Commercial Director.
• Have a key understanding of how each key customer manages its promotional cycles, ranges, terms & identify ways to maximize the brand portfolio’s volume and profit within these.
• Able to assess and suggest improvements and changes based on the results of trade activity and performance.
• Responsible for tracking trade spend on a monthly basis, working closely with the brands and sales team to ensure no overspend.
• Sales data analysis and interpretation.
• Pivotal in the preparation and presentation of customer and retailer presentations.
• Manage all promotional calendars for all customers, ensuring they are kept up to date and executed each period
• Management of systems to aid promotional decisions (SKU Track)
• Provide integral support to all members of the Sales and Marketing teams and other internal departments.
• Management of SLOBS process across brands
• CPI Support
• Developing proposals for volume and promotional spends for brand portfolio as part of annual budget planning.
• Working alongside the commercial team, deliver trade initiatives to drive profitable sales with key customers.
• Develop tools to track and analyse all promotional activity and spend.
• Work with sales team and finance to identify and solve any invoice issues relating to promotional spend.
• To ensure all budgets are met or exceeded in required timescales. Takes remedial action quickly to ensure budgets are delivered.
• Creating cohesive reports for brand portfolio to assess epos sales, category performance and market data. Using this information to provide insight, ideas and solutions to the wider marketing and commercial team.

About You:

• 1-3years experience within FMCG Sales/Marketing environment.
• High level of numeracy, excellent understanding of excel.
• A good communicator.
• Good presentation skills.
• Background knowledge of soft drinks market desirable.
• Hold the ability to present/discuss with confidence.
• Can work under pressure and adhere to deadlines .
• Be a self starter.
• Be able to handle responsibility and able to make decisions.
• Highly numerate and financially and commercially astute.
• Can manage multiple projects and tasks

Find out more about our Values here: https://(url removed)/uk/about/our-values
If you believe you are a great match for this profile, we want to hear from you.

About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're passionate about producing tasty, refreshing drinks but we’re thirsty for more and growing fast. We’re a global business and have invested heavily to expand our manufacturing footprint to make us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 15 countries and we’re only just getting started.

Our UK business has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing own label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading UK supermarkets. We also manufacture many of the best-known branded drink’s such as Monster Energy, Innocent, Ocean Spray and Vimto. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles, or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards and are on our customers’ table for every occasion!

Refresco are an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to diversity and inclusion.

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