Senior Shopper Marketing Manager (With a cool drinks brand)

Leeds, UK (Unknown)

£55K/yr – £60K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the annual customer brand planning process and lead shopper marketing activations across major grocery and convenience channels, translating campaigns into customer-facing activity while managing budgets and cross-functional relationships.

  • Own and deliver planning and activations
  • Lead two direct reports and collaborate with Sales/Category teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the annual customer brand planning process across major grocery and convenience customers.
  • Develop and deliver through-the-line shopper marketing strategies and activations across retail, convenience and cash & carry.
  • Translate major brand campaigns into brilliant customer and shopper activity.
  • Lead marketing within key Off-Trade customer meetings.
  • Build strong relationships with grocery customers, buyers and retail media partners.
  • Develop, execute and evaluate customer activations and communications.
  • Use insight and category data to create compelling selling stories.
  • Regularly evaluate and present campaign and activation performance.
  • Manage shopper marketing budgets effectively.
  • Partner closely with the Sales and Category teams.

Requirements

  • You’ll have at least five years’ experience in shopper/customer marketing , ideally gained within FMCG . Drinks experience would be a major advantage , but we’re equally interested in people from other fast-moving consumer brands who understand grocery and convenience and know how to create shopper activity that gets noticed.

Preferred

  • Fast-paced & entrepreneurial – you enjoy making things happen
  • A genuine can-do person – happy to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in
  • Shopper savvy – with strong grocery and convenience experience
  • Commercial & insight-led – able to turn category and shopper data into compelling customer stories
  • Confident with customers – comfortable presenting and selling ideas at Grocer/buyer level
  • Activation focused – experienced in taking ideas from strategy through to execution and evaluation
  • Hyper-organised – capable of juggling multiple customers, campaigns and stakeholders simultaneously
  • A strong people manager – with previous line-management experience
  • Collaborative – someone who genuinely believes in a One Team approach
  • Experience working with drinks, premium or youth-focused consumer brands would be particularly attractive

Benefits

  • Bonus: 10% discretionary
  • Hybrid: Monday–Wednesday Leeds office / Thursday–Friday home
  • Holiday: 25 days + BH, increasing by one day each year to 30 days after five years
  • ❤️ Private healthcare
  • Pension
  • ️ Death in service
  • Regular UK customer travel, with occasional overseas travel
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