Junior Brand Manager/ Brand Manager

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE:

Working with other internal stakeholders, you will support the brand portfolio strategy and priorities to enable consumer-centric brand portfolio growth. You will develop brand annual plans, setting objectives and allocating resources. In addition, you will offer recommendations for integrated commercial plans, develop, and execute marketing plans and pricings/de-pricings with finance that deliver on revenue and profit forecasts, and share objectives. Based on your deep consumer insights and brand positioning, you will develop and implement integrated marketing communications and 360-degree campaigns.

YOU ARE:

• Positive and self-motivated - you are persistent, outgoing, independent, and proactive in your work
• Both a creative and analytical thinker, adept at merging the two approaches to drive breakthrough results. Acumen with financial tools and P&L
• An advocate for the power and value of Brand Marketing - confident in communicating to the wider business the impact of Brand Marketing within a data-driven culture
• An exceptional communicator, both in writing and verbally, with the ability to deliver clear and concise recommendations to senior leadership
• Results-driven - you enjoy grinding away at issues and brainstorming creative methods for problem-solving
• Interpersonal - you are intuitive, engaging, and outgoing; you are engaging and instantly connect with people

YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree required (Marketing, Management or Finance). MSc/MBA preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years brand management experience within the consumer-packaged goods industry.
• Strong strategic and analytical skills; P&L management.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including a track record of developing and driving initiatives that achieve objectives.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
• Experience utilizing Nielsen, GFK, and other research data reporting and analysis
• Experience identifying, building, and delivering growth initiatives in the fast-moving consumer goods industry
• Strong computer skills with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

YOU’LL RECEIVE:

Competitive salary, annual bonus, health insurance, 24 days annual leave, corporate mobile communication, lunch allowance, employee recognition scheme.

ABOUT US. JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS:

JDE is a subsidiary of JDE Peet’s, the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands. For more than 265 years, JDE has been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. Today, JDE unleashes the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries, through a portfolio of over 50 brands including Jacobs, Carte Noire, Maxwell House, Pickwick, Tassimo, L’OR, Moccona and many more.