POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a talented and experienced marketing professional to join our global marketing team for this UKI role. This position can be based anywhere across the United Kingdom.
In this role you will manage and lead the innovative TASKI cluster portfolio for the UK and Ireland. You will be responsible for driving growth and profitability for your portfolio via New Product Development, product lifecycle management and activation of all new product introductions and innovations within your market.
This means that you will be responsible for all product marketing needs within your portfolio, which includes everything from defining the medium- and long-term strategy, understanding the end customer needs and creating value propositions for white spaces and opportunities in the market.
On top of the more strategic and tactical focus, you will be expected to localise and develop product support and marketing collateral materials, making this a hands-on and operational position.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Leading and managing the TASKI portfolio for the UK&I, ensuring implementation and delivery with excellence. The portfolio plans you develop are there to promote the TASKI portfolio, together with sectors such as chemicals, consumables and service (30% of your time).
* Being an active member of the global TASKI project teams through further development of new innovations and propositions in order to add value and bring profitable growth to Diversey/Solenis (NPD/NPI) (30% of your time).
* Taking the lead role in monitoring and managing the product life cycle, driving improvements in sales and profitability via portfolio mix optimizations and innovation roll out (20% of your time).
* Localising and developing product support and marketing collateral materials whilst liaising with local sales organisations to present programs, activities and new product introductions and innovations (10% of your time).
* Ensuring a high standard of execution and delivery across all projects (10% of your time).
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US:
* Global projects – You will have the chance to be involved in global projects and if you like also take the lead on them.
* Global, cross-department collaboration - In this role you will be collaborating with a lot of colleagues across the organisation and hence, will be influencing stakeholders in a matrix organization, which is part of your job. For example, you will be providing guidance to colleagues, setting goals and reviewing cluster sales performance. You will work closely with teams such as Commercialisation, Regulatory, R&D, Procurement, Supply Chain and Sales.
* Premium brand positioning - The Taski brand is positioned as a premium brand, and you will have the chance to leverage a lot of interesting storytelling opportunities.
* Working for a global market leader - Diversey and Solenis are both global players with a very strong reputation within our industry. Now both companies have merged together, we even have a bigger impact on the world and together form an even stronger brand (portfolios).
* Career growth – We are open to hiring someone in the early years of their marketing/portfolio management career; someone who has the ambition to grow further into European or Global (leadership) roles later on.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE
* 3+ years of experience as a Marketing Professional (i.e. in portfolio management, trade marketing, brand management or similar). Experience working with technological cleaning solutions will be considered a plus
* Experience working in B2B Marketing, preferably rolling out country-wide initiatives.
* Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with both frontline colleagues and senior managers / stakeholders.
* Ability to motivate individuals and teams within the organisation.
* Very resilient, capable of demonstrating relentless drive and tenacity.
* Ability to take ownership and initative
* Energy, willingness to learn and grit to succeed.
Benefits Package
* £40,000+ base salary (will vary depending on level of experience)
* PerkBox: Employee Discount and Wellbeing Platform
* Annual leave: 25 days
* Accident & Life Insurance: 1 x annual salary to 4 x annual salary (Linked to Employee Pension contribution %)
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
* Employer contribution to pension insurance (Employee 3% & Employer 5% or Employee 4% & Employer 6%)
* Accident & Death Insurance.