Ready to make your mark with the UK’s leading soft drinks manufacturer? At Refresco, we’re looking for a dynamic Commercial Manager to take charge of a portfolio of exciting brands, driving growth, shaping strategy, and delivering strong results.
This 12-month maternity cover offers the chance to work with great people, big brands, and genuine commercial freedom to make an impact from day one.
Commercial Brand Manager
Kegworth Head Office, Hybrid
Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am – 4pm
12 month FTC
Reward & Benefits:
* 12.5% annual bonus
* £6,400 car allowance
* Personal healthcare
* 6% pension
* 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Purchase 3 additional holidays per yearFree on-site parking
* GroceryAid – a support service offering free financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
* Cheers – access to our Award-Winning benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all employees
About the Role
The Commercial Manager reports to the Senior Commercial Manager and is repsonsible for delivering the agreed annual volume, GM/L and EBITDA budgets for the designated brands. Together with the SBM, the Brand Manager will develop & deliver the strategic long term plans for the designated brand portfolio for Refresco UK across all trade channels.
To work with the wider commercial team to grow the volume and profitability of the designated brand portfolio and to work with the Head of Marketing to identify and develop new product and distribution opportunities for Refresco UK.
Here are your key tasks and responsibilities as Commercial Brand Manager at Refresco:
* Lead and deliver growth for the designated brand portfolio across all key trade channels.
* Set and manage annual budgets, pricing, promotions, and trade spend to maximise profitability.
* Oversee brand performance — including NPD, value engineering, pricing, and promotional activity.
* Partner with Finance to develop P&Ls and pricing proposals for senior management approval.
* Build and manage strong relationships with brand owners, ensuring alignment on performance and plans.
* Identify and drive NPD opportunities to grow branded sales and expand into new categories.
* Collaborate with the wider commercial team to spot opportunities, mitigate risks, and deliver above-market performance.
About You
You’ll be an experienced FMCG professional with a proven track record in senior commercial roles, ideally with exposure to both brand and private label.
You are highly analytical, turning insights into clear actions, and confident presenting to internal teams and senior stakeholders. A natural influencer and communicator, you excel at building alignment, managing priorities, and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.
Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.
Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.