Marketing Director UK & I

Blue Rice are working exclusively with a European food supplier searching for a Marketing Director UK & I. Due to impressive growth in sales and profits, and their continually increasing global presence, our client is searching for someone who can continue to engage customers and shoppers in a highly competitive food sector. This role will offer a mix of remote and office-based working (2 Days Per Week in a North of England HQ).

You should be a creative and commercially minded marketer with experience in launching innovation, breathing fresh ideas into a wide portfolio of established brands, and developing new marketing campaigns geared around health snacks. You will lead a large team of multi-functional marketing colleagues while delivering real benefits to the modern shopper who looks for both quality and value when choosing what goes in the supermarket trolley.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Marketing strategy development, implementation and delivery for a significant UK business unit.
• Oversee a expanding Marketing function:- 6 direct reports, total team of 30. 
• Monitoring and evaluation against KPIs, campaigns and market trends in UK and Wider Europe.
• Partner with UK & ROI Sales team to develop trade marketing for key customers and channels
• Create and cultivate relationships with external agencies, key partners and shareholders
• Champion innovation to grow category sales with current customer base & new business
• Develop unique and exciting plans to launch innovation to trade, press and consumers

 

Key Skills Required:

• Experience in building brands through consistency and focused execution
• Ability to utilise social media techniques and innovative routes to market
• Strong analytical ability alongside knowledge of category management and strategy
• Focused on results and driven, with a track record of delivering to plan
• Clear and logical thinker with strong numeric ability and rounded commercial awareness
• Enthusiastic and confident, with strong verbal and presentational skills
• Committed to the role of providing healthier food options in a pressurised food sector
• Personable, fun, with excellent partnership skills

 

To be considered for this shortlist you must currently operate at Head of Marketing or Marketing Director (or equivalent level) for a major Food or Drink supplier in the UK and Ireland.

 

The Deal:

Our client is offering Up to £200,000 Base Salary, Car Allowance, Annual Bonus, LTIP, Exec Level Benefits. 

If you have an abundance of FMCG marketing experience and can demonstrate the ability to unlock high growth potential, then this may be the opportunity your career has been waiting for. The successful candidate will be given a challenging but rewarding opportunity that will transition into a wider zone marketing role that will encompass European and global responsibilities.