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Yeo ValleySee more

addressAddressBlagdon, Somerset
salary Salary£48,600 - £59,400 per annum
CategoryFMCG

Job description

As Senior Brand Manager - Health, you will be a consumer champion and ambassador for the health portfolio. You will be a proactive leader that inspires co-owners and galvanises their support by regularly showcasing the ambitious consumer led growth plans aligned to this portfolio.

Through a deep consumer understanding and specialised expertise, you will lead the Current and Future strategy, planning and tactical development of Yeo Valley Organic (YVO) Health, creating winning consumer value and growing demand to drive impactful profitable sales.

Through strong collaboration with colleagues & external partners you will lead and contribute to projects as well as help others to solve complex problems that successfully enable the delivery of our company vision, long term strategy and health ambitions.

Your responsibilities:

  • Understand and embrace our company purpose and work to ensure that all your work helps Nurture & Nourish People & Planet.
  • Champion and gain support for the YVO Health plans and roadmap ensuring it is consumer, shopper and customer informed and rooted in insight.
  • Lead the annual and multi-year brand planning for YVO Health pillar outlining a clear vision, ambitious brand objectives and a clearly articulated physical availability roadmap (4Ps).
  • Lead/write YVO Health project briefs for internal and external marketing agencies including research, product development, product innovation, pack design and activation/shopper marketing.
  • Refine and develop clearly articulate product positioning for existing and new ranges based on consumer & shopper insights. Ensure all packaging and creative assets are aligned to the Yeo Valley Organic master brand guidelines and Health pillar principles.
  • Recommend and justify marketing investment against YVO Health objectives and allocate budgets to projects and activities to maximise return on investment.
  • Lead Trade Engagement for YVO Health and the creation and communication of compelling trade plans and close collaboration with sales, category, innovation, and activation colleagues.
  • Measure and evaluate product performance and marketing investment to continuously learn with a failfast approach to improve activity plans and our return on investment.
  • Embrace and work towards the Marketing team values and vision to become a high performing team helping millions of consumers make better food choices every day.

Request

Essential:

  • Strong track record working on FMCG brands in the UK or other grocery sector
  • Proven experience in brand management including strategic & tactical planning.
  • Experience of brand comms, media, and activation planning.
  • Experience in writing & delivering brand plans.
  • Experience in commissioning consumer research and writing strong agency briefs.
  • Experience introducing new insight led products to market.
  • Experience of brand activation and shopper marketing
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships
  • Good with numbers and strong analytic skills
  • Exposure to the buying teams of major mults.

Desirable:

  • Some experience of brand management in the chilled category
  • Some experience in food product development
  • Experience of brand comms, media and activation planning
  • Interest in nutrition and health.

Benefits

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt. We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including: 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays non-contributory pension scheme annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year) life cover healthcare cash back plan cycle to work scheme subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us! Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time. Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.
Refer code: 2432394. Yeo Valley - The previous day - 2024-01-06 04:18

Yeo Valley

Blagdon, Somerset
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