Heavyweight Shopper/Trade Marketing Champion wanted
Northern home counties/North London, hybrid working
Salary to £100,000 + full executive package
Our client, a £750m UK Subsidiary of a global branded food giant at £15bn, is on the hunt for a Shopper Marketing Leader. You are a heavyweight senior manager, or someone who believes they can be with this move, a champion of change who has the ambition to take a portfolio of brands to the #1 category voice in a £4bn ambient food category. The remit is simple; you will lead the Shopper Marketing agenda with a team on your side.
Shopper and Category Marketing teams alike sit at the forefront of every customer execution within the working culture of this business. Today, this major food company is now relentless in its pursuit to take the lead title as category expert in the eyes of the retail grocery trade. This is a crucial leadership, yet hands-on role in shaping and developing Shopper Marketing strategy. Thinking and acting with conviction and fearlessness must be your natural MO. You will have masses of freedom to make this role your own. Your combined knowledge, technical skill and experience, coupled with commercial Trade Marketing vision equips you to succeed. You’re respected as someone who is an inspiration to a large crowd, a creative thought-leader who can make things happen. You will influence at the highest level, bringing best-in class ways will set you up perfectly.
This role is principally about nurturing a philosophy of Shopper Marketing-based decisions across every other commercial function, focusing on day-to-day operational implementation and effective deployment of a busy team, as well as shaping the business to be the voice of the shopper for every retailer in FMCG.
Right now, your career is simply not enough to fuel your ambition nor personal reward. You are ready to positively disrupt a category and make a serious name for yourself. Your talent and skill as a profound expert in Trade/Shopper Marketing is without question. You are someone with experience of leading a team. You have a relentless curiosity and drive to deliver results, your track record is second to none.
This successful company rewards performance and respects people who have clarity of vision to win hearts and minds. This is a chance now to prove yourself in a demanding, vibrant, past paced environment, and get noticed for making a difference.
This is not a job or a place for the faint-hearted – only the lionhearted and fearless need apply!