Assistant Brand Manager

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Assistant Brand Manager

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Andover

Description

Great People Work Here

In Twinings UK&I we are on a stimulating journey of transformation as we seek to achieve our exciting goal of becoming a leading brand in wellbeing drinks. We have created an organisation designed to be in flow, where everyone has a pivotal role to play, and an experience that enables you to get the most out of life at Twinings and thrive.

We're looking for an Assistant Brand Manager to passionately support the delivery of Twinings base business portfolio. You'll play a key role in achieving our objective to become a leading health and wellbeing brand. There is an opportunity to make a real impact - planning delivery and collaborating cross functionally to deliver our 0-18 month vision, accelerating growth by unlocking opportunities & collaborating across functions to ensure our plans are delivered & executed brilliantly at launch, and are nurtured.

Your goals will be visible and tangible across the business. You'll deliver short / medium term initiatives on our base business, driving the team to excellent execution across the portfolio (NPD, Packaging, Portfolio ownership), and you'll also own the budget tracking / day to day management of the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of key initiatives with excellence & passion across our core portfolio (NPD, Packaging, Blends)
• Owning the day-to-day management of the Twinings portfolio (APTID budget, Delists)
• Managing GTM assets, consumer careline briefs and our relationship with Brandbank
• Working towards key priorities & KPI's, whilst utilising agility to flex where appropriate, unblocking challenges and stay on track
• Building a strong portfolio by making use of competitor and consumer insight and exercising creativity in the way you think & approach initiatives or challenges.
• Demonstrating a natural curiosity to find out more (MEX, Research), looking both inside and outside of Twinings for learning opportunities
• Develop strong relationships cross functionally (Marketing, NPD, Commercial, Finance), enabling you to deliver your plans brilliantly.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Demonstrable experience at ABM level, within an FMCG organisation
• Experience of leading key initiatives / projects through to delivery
• Strong stakeholder management / cross functional working skills (ideally with experience to support this)
• Very well-organised with strong project management skills and ability to flex with changing priorities
• Commercial capability and an ability to demonstrate an understanding of financials and implications of cost efficiency / ROI
• Demonstrable confidence to present to a range of audiences internally and externally
• An eye for detail to ensure your plans are being delivered with excellence
• High learning agility - able to flex and adapt plans
• Commercial, curious and consumer centric

Benefits

• Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
• Flexible working options
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
• Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
• Perkbox - employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
• Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• SimplyHealth Cash plan
• Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
• Electric Car Scheme
• Four week Digital Nomad
• Opportunity for a variety of marketing leading development opportunities
• 2 recharge days a year to pause and get back on top and thriving
• Birthday day off
• Inspiring connection events in line with our exciting wellbeing vision