Responsibilities

• Be the main point of contact between the global team and UK sales team, ensuring to keep the UK market requirements front and centre when in development and challenging the global teams where appropriate.
• Develop an annual plan in collaboration with sales that addresses our key issues and builds our KPIs for growth.
• Keep consumer insight at the heart of brand strategy whilst also applying a commercial lens
• Continually analyze portfolio performance and keep the brand proposition ahead of the competition, ensuring the optimum range on the shelf in channel, incl. formats and sub ranges.
• Execute EPD and NPD with excellence, through from sell-ins to activating on social and with influencers. Driving both visibility and talkability to ultimately drive penetration and conversion.
• Work in collaboration with the global team on the optimum execution of our digital first strategy (paid media) and instore activation with clear evaluation and the ability to recommend how to build upon the plan.
• Manage our digital and social brand presence delivering relevancy and meaningfulness to our consumers.
• The ability to define and build a ‘community’ that is executed with excellence locally, whether that be events, partnerships, collaborations.
• Manage the marketing budget and its reporting to ensure the team is always spending efficiently.

Requirements

• Right-To-Work within the UK (without sponsorship)
• Minimum Education to Bachelors Degree level
• To be commercially savvy, know what good looks like and instill best practice in everything that we do.
• Experience owning and delivering brand growth within competitive FMCG or consumer markets
• Enjoy having autonomy and being accountable for building the brand.
• Passion for brands, consumer trends, food and healthy lifestyles
• Attention to detail, being 110% over all formatting. Being accountable for delivering best in class presentations and communication on the brand, both internally and externally.
• Understanding of the retailer landscape.
• A positive can-do attitude that seeks out solutions and looks at how we can do things differently.
• Experience collaborating with a Global team on brand projects to ensure consistency and effective brand building activities across markets.
• Excellent strategic thinker with desire to create an impact.
• Ability to influence stakeholders with confidence.
• Strong understanding of media planning ATL/BTL and management of agencies to ensure strength in the communication plan.
• Enjoys collaboration and enjoys relationship building across departments and with agencies, proactive team player who contributes to a strong and collaborative culture
• To be degree educated with a minimum of 6 years’ relevant marketing experience

Preferred

• Ideally, you will be a nākd. fan, with a genuine passion for food, healthy lifestyles and consumer trends.

Benefits

• Grasp the opportunity to join an ambitious and driven team with a mix of talents!
• Being part of a fast growing, international company, you will get tons of on-the-job-learning and acquire new insights.
• in addition, you will be part of a culture where passion, team spirit and open dialogue are our main drivers.
• And of course, on top of that, you can enjoy delicious branded snacks every day!
• Be a team player, we all get stuck in to achieve results here at Lotus Natural Foods and we love our team to look beyond their own role to amplify the overall results.
• Culture is hugely important to us here at Lotus Natural Foods and we look to our employees to positively contribute to that.