Assistant Brand Manager

Slough – Hybrid (2-3 days per week in HQ)

Join our snack-loving team! We’re looking for a Assistant Brand Manager to join our team at KP Snacks. Fancy being part of a group where your ideas matter and your growth is celebrated? Keep reading – this might just be your next adventure!

What’s in it for you?

• Attractive base salary

• Bonus scheme – with an excellent track record of over-achievement

• Annual Salary Review

• Medicash health cash plan / Private healthcare / Digital GP service and Best Doctors (2nd Medical Opinion service) and Cancer care

• Holiday buy scheme

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• KP4ME – online benefits, discounts, prizes, competitions and information platform with access to mental, physical and financial wellbeing information and tools

This is an ideal opportunity for a junior marketer with some previous FMCG to work on a priority brand in a fun, friendly and fast-paced environment. You will pay a key role in delivering the marketing plans in line with brand strategy, which includes the development & execution of TTL campaigns as well as the NPD & EPD product plan. In addition, you’ll lead the tracking and management of the marketing budget and reporting on brand performance.

The office is located in Slough (hybrid: 2-3 days) with occasional travel required to events, agency meetings and manufacturing sites.

As an Assistant Brand Manager, what will you be doing?

• Support the brand team in the creation & execution of the 3 year brand vision, strategy, and plan

• Lead, and work cross functionally, to deliver key projects, via a stage gate process, throughout the year

• Liaise with agencies to support the execution of the marketing plans

• Manage monthly brand performance reports, as well as ad hoc analysis. This will include the internal P&L & external brand consumer metrics, and competitor analysis to generate insight led actions and recommendations

• Support management of marketing budget, including PO raising / receipting, as well as tracking and reporting on spend

We’d love to hear from you if you can demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

• Passionate about brands and marketing

• Positive, inquisitive, self-starter who’s not afraid to ask for help

• Good at building relationships, with the ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders

• Organised, able to multi task and meet deadlines

• Demonstrates a growth mindset, with a track record of wanting to learn, develop and stretch

• Experienced with consumer brand data, analytics and reporting

• Budget management

• ERP system experience

• FMCG experience (min 1yr)

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• Launch new products: lead the project management process, develop recipes, lead project meetings
• Develop design and artwork: lead external design agencies, lead the in-house packaging process, ensure implementation with our packaging department and factories
• Lead part of the brand portfolio: monitor, recommend, motivate, reward the other departments to drive brand performance
• Analyse brand & market information that are presented or sent to the whole company and/or the UK board and/or the Group board
• Contribute to the selling of your products by presenting internally to the sales team and externally to retailers
• Lead the day to day of the part of the brand you are responsible for
• Be given an area of expertise to develop for the wider train (facebook, sponsorship etc)
• Become a passionate expert of your consumer

• Hold a degree level or equivalent qualification (2:1 or above)
• Previous leadership experience through extracurricular activities
• Excellent analytical skills
• Capacity to embrace and create change
• Great team player capable to support, to lead, to care and to tell things as they are
• Creative, Energetic & passionate
• Entrepreneurial spirit – confident to challenge the status quo and make bold choices
• Self-motivated & self-aware – with curiosity to learn and develop
• Open minded – with boundless curiosity