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Brand Manager

Job description

Planning & Client Management
  • Take full ownership of a portfolio of brands in the healthcare category, with P&L responsibility for the brands under your remit.
 
  • Develop ambitious and inspiring annual plans that deliver against company and brand partner growth metrics including sales growth, market share, profitability, and brand awareness. 
 
  • Leverage business analytics and category insights to influence customer and company decision making; utilizing internal/customer business systems.
 
  • Manage the range selection, pricing and promotional strategies for your brands, utilising brand owner inputs, internal and external market data and local competitor analysis to support strategic choices and priorities. 
 
  • Manage the day-to-day relationship with designated Brand partners in line with company’s culture of collaboration and service excellence. 

Execution
  • Develop and implement annual shopper marketing and in store plans in conjunction with customer and internal marketing teams.
 
  • Lead all consumer marketing initiatives for your brands, ensuring full brand owner alignment and localisation of international campaigns and initiatives where required. 
 
  • You will create presentations for use with clients, customers and internal customers (e.g. sales teams).
 
  • You will draft briefs for outsourced activities as required and secure client approval prior to engaging with agencies.
 
  • Represent your brands at trade and consumer events as required. 
 
  • Monitor execution of your brand plans and adjust as required to meet full year objectives and new market challenges as they arise.

Customer
  • Ensure National Accounts, Field Sales and merchandising teams are fully aligned on your brand plans to deliver required trade executions.
 
  • Attend customer meetings with the national account team as required to support key planning and development initiatives for your brands.

Performance & Support
  • Manage profitability of your brands through effective P&L monitoring and management.
 
  • Identify new market opportunities, determining which of these are commercially viable to pursue.
 
  • Manage all client and internal reporting requirements against key metrics and objectives.
 
  • You will monitor competitor activity and market trends, reporting on any such activity and implementing alternative business strategies as required.
 
  • Work collaboratively with stakeholders to create accurate stock and financial forecasts that optimise availability and commercial outcomes. 
 
  • With closely with the sales operations and planning team and other internal stakeholders on all administration and operational tasks required to support your brands. 

General
 
  • You will be required to carry out any other reasonable task in relation to the overall job, as required