Brand Manager

Job Description
** Brand Manager - Iconic Food Brand **
FMCG - Food - Grocery
Maidenhead - 25 minutes from Paddington and shuttle bus service from train station to office - hybrid (Circa £50,000 + car allowance + bonus + benefits)
The opportunity:
On a mission inspire Asian flavour adventures you will be leading products within the portfolio and projects within the brand plan. This role is all about passion for brands and marketing, consumer centric thinking and drive, you’ll own all elements of the marketing mix– we believe in full accountability.
This role offers fantastic development and progression to Senior Brand Manager and a real investment in learning with excellent training and exposure!
What will my accountabilities be?
•Managing your individual portfolio area, ensuring delivery of the in-year commercial plans. This will include developing and launching NPD, managing the profit targets for the portfolio and helping to develop an exciting new promotional strategy.
•Build strong working relationship with key agency partners to deliver the agreed brand plan inc. design, digital, social, ATL and media.
•Play a lead or key supporting role in shaping and delivering any existing or new product development initiatives.
•Accountable for leading key brand meetings ensuring brand strategy is shaped and executed with excellence across the business
•Preparing the monthly period performance report for your portfolio area, delivering insightful analysis of different data sets (including internal measures and external data such as Nielsen Scantrack) and ensuring corrective actions are in place to deliver brand KPIs.
•Ownership of the consumer closeness programme, ensuring the brand team remains close to our consumers.
A great candidate will have:
At least 3 years marketing experience in a branded FMCG business.
Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of cross functional team collaboration.
A consumer and brand centric mindset in everything that you do.
An intensely curious and inquisitive nature about consumer/ shopper behaviour.
Commercial experience and be able to interrogate a brand P&L.
Excellent problem-solving skills with a natural ability to navigate complexity.
A proven track record of being a strong team player – you’ll need this to succeed.
In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you:
Discretionary incentive scheme - the company performance is outstanding currently!
Contributory company pension scheme.
Company travel allowance.
Private healthcare.
Enhanced maternity, paternity and sick pay.
25 days annual leave plus eight days Bank Holiday as well as a purchase scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
What happens next?
Apply today with your most up-to-date CV that will be reviewed by our MKJ Recruitment team.
First Stage: 1 hour Teams meeting with the hiring manager.
Second Stage: In person interview at their offices with presentation.
People are at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process that means people can be their best authentic self.
We would love to reply to all applications, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive, so if you do not hear back within 14 days unfortunately on this role it won’t be progressing. It is possible that the position could be in the process of closing, so chalk it up to bad timing. But, have no fear! There will be more opportunities. Follow us at Mackenzie Jones Recruitment so you don’t miss them.