Product Manager – Food – Private Label

Salary Details: Up to £44,400, bonus, pesnion, healthcare, flexible working

Our client is one of the world’s top 20 Food businesses, with a turnover in excess of €17 billion. Its UK business has grown five-fold since 2003, & has established a strong branded & private-label business with all the major UK multiple retailers, independents, wholesalers & out-of-home customers. Following recent internal moves, the business is now looking to recruit a first-class Private Label Product Manager to play a key role in driving forward a large own-label product portfolio working closely with UK brand marketing, sales & category teams, and customers.

This role will represent an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to build their career within a successful global business.

The objectives of the role are as follows:

• Achieve volume and profitability targets across Retail with agreement / buy in from relevant internal stakeholders.
• Implementation of marketing activities (NPD development, sales promotion, PR, market research, packaging) to achieve objectives from the marketing plan.
• Translate consumer market and insight data into actionable data for Private Label channels.
• Manage project and marketing budget including gap analysis and recommendations for adjustments

Requirements:

With a minimum of 3 years experience in marketing fast moving consumer goods (ideally in food), your key characteristics will include:

• A strong commercial focus used to working closely with sales & category and customers
• Numerate
• An energised, enthusiastic & positive outlook, with good levels of resilience
• Results-oriented, with strong attention to detail
• Logical thinking and decision-making, with the ability to adapt to meet changing circumstances
• An ability to communicate effectively across all functions & to work within a matrix structure

Foreign language skills especially French and Italian would be ideal