Assistant Brand Manager - Naturally Sweet

Company Description

At Valeo Foods UK, we're the creative force behind beloved brands like Kettle Chips, Rowse Honey, and Matthew Walker puddings. Our diverse portfolio also includes New World Foods, Barratt sweets, and Metcalfe Popcorn, each with its own unique story and flavour.

We’re excited to share that now our new Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Inpong, has joined the business we are set to redefine our marketing strategies and drive growth. To support this vision, we're opening several key roles within our restructured marketing team. These positions are essential for driving innovation, enhancing our brand presence, and delighting our customers. We offer best-in-class marketing training through the Valeo Brand Building Academy and on-the-job coaching to ensure your success.

Join us on a journey where passion meets flavour, crafting experiences that bring people together and delight taste buds.

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Assistant Brand Manager to join our marketing team to support with our extremly tasty Naturally Sweet team. The ideal candidate will assist in the development and implementation of brand strategies, ensuring alignment with our company's vision and goals. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of our brand along with having a unique and tailored 1 year training program to allow you to gain experience within our Marketing, Business Intelligence, Research and Development and Category team's across Valeo Foods UK.

This is a Hybrid role with regular travel to our Rowse site at Wallingford. We do require visits to other sites when neccessary.

• Strong stewardship of initiatives within the brand plans
• Good monthly reporting on their initiatives to board-level standards
• Positive contribution to building a “Valeo Brand Building Framework” and ensure a consistent and excellent use
• Good contribution to the annual strategy review 
• Strong marketing budget compliance and optimisation (Core marketing, ASOH, shopper marketing)
• Very strong cross-functional collaboration
• Emerging role in representating the brand externally especially with retailers
• Very strong contribution to the “Consumer is Boss” plan (regular connections with the consumers)
• Excellent capacity to bring the “outside world in” – latest trends, international intelligence, competitive intelligence

Qualifications

• Good leadership to shape, align and plan
• Strong analytical thinking
• Good capacity to create and embrace change
• Very strong “Personal Best” mindset: to seek to be better tomorrow than we are today
• Good stewardship of initiatives from the brand plans
• Good adaptability to operate at all levels of the organisation
• Strong presentation skills – written and verbal
• Very strong ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Emerging experience of the full marketing mix – from insight generation, problem-solving, target-setting, delivering and measuring
• Strong leadership expressed in other fields than corporate life
• Good experience in interacting successfully with different stakeholders an
• Very strong track record of creating change that shaped the thinking and deliver results

Additional Information

What we offer you in return

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Matched pension scheme
• Death in service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Canteen
• Retailer discount platform
• Staff discount 
• And plenty more!