Seasonal Brand Manager
Posted Today by myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community
Negotiable
Undetermined
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Slough, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Seasonal Brand Manager role at Mars Wrigley UKI involves managing seasonal ranges for popular confectionery brands during key holidays. The position requires strong project management skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams. Candidates should be commercially astute and possess prior marketing experience, although it is not essential. The role is office-based in Slough, with a requirement to travel to Dublin if necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver annual seasonal ranges to market, leading cross-functional teams and delivering stages gates in line with S&OP process.
- Collaborate with regional and D&T teams to ensure the range is compelling for UKI consumers, shoppers, and customers.
- Develop and deliver compelling customer selling stories and present at internal sales events and external customer-facing meetings where required.
Key Skills:
- Commercially astute.
- Good project management skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Digitally savvy.
- FMCG experience required, marketing experience preferred but not essential.
- Ability to create strong collaborative relationships.
- Mars Leadership Capabilities: Business Insight, Drives Results, Collaborates & Communicates Effectively.
- Marketing Capabilities: Makes quality growth choices, Unlocks store experience (preferred but not essential).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Slough
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Marketing
This job is with Mars, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.
Job Description
We are excited to announce the opportunity to join the Mars Wrigley UKI Marketing Team as a Brand Manager. Mars Wrigley has retail rales of over £1 billion per annum, with loved household brands such as Maltesers ® , Galaxy ® , Extra ® , Snickers ® , Mars ® , Twix ® , Celebrations ® and Skittles ® . We are recruiting for a Seasonal Brand Manager who will work across our loved chocolate and fruity confectionery brands to manage the Easter, Halloween and Christmas ranges. We are looking for someone who is commercially astute, has good project management skills and have a proven ability to lead teams. Prior marketing experience is preferred. You will have a chance to work at a family owned purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. It is an office role based in Dublin or Slough, if in Dublin a willingness to travel to Slough is essential.
What are we looking for?
- Drives consistent results managing multiple priorities and projects
- Ability to create strong collaborative relationships
- Commercially astute
- Strong communication skills
- Digitally savvy
Mars Leadership Capabilities: Business Insight, Drives Results, Collaborates & Communicates Effectively
FMCG Experience Required, Marketing Experience Preferred But Not Essential.
Marketing Capabilities (Preferred but not essential) : Makes quality growth choices, Unlocks store experience
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Deliver our annual seasonal ranges to market, leading cross functional teams and delivering stages gates in line with our S&OP process.
- Collaborate with regional and D&T teams to ensure range is compelling for UKI consumers. shoppers and customers
- Develop and deliver compelling customer selling stories and present at internal sales events and external customer facing meetings where required
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.