Job Description

Position Snapshot:

Purina Senior Brand Manager

Location: Gatwick - (Hybrid working - office days 2/3 times a week)

Competitive Salary

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual\'s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like.

Position Summary

The Nestl\xc3\xa9 Purina Pet Care Team a fantastic opening for a Senior Brand Manager to join their team who will report directly into the Marketing Manager. You will be responsible for defining & implementing the UK short term (annual) brand plans to deliver agreed business results & influence key stakeholders. You will also ensure long term EMENA brand priorities, innovation pipeline and brand communication content are fit to win and excel in the UK market.

At Nestl\xc3\xa9 PURINA Pet Care, we\'re passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we\'re pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestl\xc3\xa9 PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK\'s best loved brands including FELIX\xc2\xae, WINALOT\xc2\xae, GO-CAT\xc2\xae, BAKERS\xc2\xae and BONIO, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners.

A day in the life of a Senior Brand Manager

As a Senior Brand Manager in Purina, you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the UK 3-year portfolio plan for the relevant brand and sub-category in line with strategic guidance set by the EMENA Principal. You will follow central guidance on brand strategy and product portfolio whilst contributing to that strategy through ICP/Cluster process and by providing Principal with local insight. As a Senior Brand Manager, you will be a key member of the UK marketing team in ensuring the execution of annual brand / portfolio targets. You will also:

• Ensure marketing messaging is consistent with Nestl\xc3\xa9 Group Guidance and in-line with Purina EMENA
• strategy
• Ensure communication plans and resource allocation is aligned to strategic guidance set by the Principal
• Ensure PFME is planned against EMENA strategic priorities and managed effectively and efficiently,

driving focus on working media and avoiding the creation of local intangibles

• Ensures any new third-party relationships are established in-line with Nestle Procurement guidelines
• Ensures relationships with key media and creative partners are healthy and productive
• Ensure digital and social is embedded in brand / portfolio communication plans
• Support the development of direct team members and enable development of indirect team members
• Inspires the functions around brand / portfolio to keep people motivated and high performing
• Co-ordinates local commercial stakeholders to ensure aligned input into the brand clusters & EMENA MLT
• Play an active role in the brand marketing team to drive synergies across the teams
• Engage with all other internal and external stakeholders managing all subjects related to the brand and category
• Support building Purina as an aspirational place to work for marketing professionals

What will make you successful

The successful candidate will bring with them a wealth of experience in Marketing operating as a Senior Brand Manager currently or looking to develop from a Brand Manager position. They will have successfully delivered on brand building KPIs and was as had experience in managing complex cross functional project teams. They will be a strong team player with the ability to build and grow networks, influence and inspire. They will be at ease and confident working with cross functional, cross-cultural teams and in dealing with senior management.

They will also:

• Have had experience being an active player within a matrix organisation and business/project multidisciplinary teams.
• Have the ability to credibly communicate with a wide range of stakeholders
• Have a mature and pragmatic approach
• Have a broad interest in sustainability
• Have excellent presentation skills
• Have had experience in managing portfolio PFME

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you\'d expect from a business the size of Nestl\xc3\xa9 - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 4th September 2023.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don\'t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestl\xc3\xa9, our values are rooted in respect - for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That\'s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Position Snapshot:

Purina Senior Brand Manager

Location: Gatwick - (Hybrid working - office days 2/3 times a week)

Competitive Salary

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual\'s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like.

Position Summary

The Nestl\xc3\xa9 Purina Pet Care Team a fantastic opening for a Senior Brand Manager to join their team who will report directly into the Marketing Manager. You will be responsible for defining & implementing the UK short term (annual) brand plans to deliver agreed business results & influence key stakeholders. You will also ensure long term EMENA brand priorities, innovation pipeline and brand communication content are fit to win and excel in the UK market.

At Nestl\xc3\xa9 PURINA Pet Care, we\'re passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we\'re pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestl\xc3\xa9 PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK\'s best loved brands including FELIX\xc2\xae, WINALOT\xc2\xae, GO-CAT\xc2\xae, BAKERS\xc2\xae and BONIO, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners.

A day in the life of a Senior Brand Manager

As a Senior Brand Manager in Purina, you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the UK 3-year portfolio plan for the relevant brand and sub-category in line with strategic guidance set by the EMENA Principal. You will follow central guidance on brand strategy and product portfolio whilst contributing to that strategy through ICP/Cluster process and by providing Principal with local insight. As a Senior Brand Manager, you will be a key member of the UK marketing team in ensuring the execution of annual brand / portfolio targets. You will also:

• Ensure marketing messaging is consistent with Nestl\xc3\xa9 Group Guidance and in-line with Purina EMENA
• strategy
• Ensure communication plans and resource allocation is aligned to strategic guidance set by the Principal
• Ensure PFME is planned against EMENA strategic priorities and managed effectively and efficiently,

driving focus on working media and avoiding the creation of local intangibles

• Ensures any new third-party relationships are established in-line with Nestle Procurement guidelines
• Ensures relationships with key media and creative partners are healthy and productive
• Ensure digital and social is embedded in brand / portfolio communication plans
• Support the development of direct team members and enable development of indirect team members
• Inspires the functions around brand / portfolio to keep people motivated and high performing
• Co-ordinates local commercial stakeholders to ensure aligned input into the brand clusters & EMENA MLT
• Play an active role in the brand marketing team to drive synergies across the teams
• Engage with all other internal and external stakeholders managing all subjects related to the brand and category
• Support building Purina as an aspirational place to work for marketing professionals

What will make you successful

The successful candidate will bring with them a wealth of experience in Marketing operating as a Senior Brand Manager currently or looking to develop from a Brand Manager position. They will have successfully delivered on brand building KPIs and was as had experience in managing complex cross functional project teams. They will be a strong team player with the ability to build and grow networks, influence and inspire. They will be at ease and confident working with cross functional, cross-cultural teams and in dealing with senior management.

They will also:

• Have had experience being an active player within a matrix organisation and business/project multidisciplinary teams.
• Have the ability to credibly communicate with a wide range of stakeholders
• Have a mature and pragmatic approach
• Have a broad interest in sustainability
• Have excellent presentation skills
• Have had experience in managing portfolio PFME

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you\'d expect from a business the size of Nestl\xc3\xa9 - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 4th September 2023.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don\'t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestl\xc3\xa9, our values are rooted in respect - for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That\'s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Gatwick, GB, RH6 0PA

Gatwick, GB, RH6 0PA

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