Assistant Brand Manager- Innovation

Job Introduction

Do you want to help create the drinks brands of the future?

Your role will be to assist new brand development for Global Innovation. You’ll be focused on new-to-world brands, working with Innovation Champions within Sales and Marketing, Operations and Market teams you’ll successfully operate across a wide range of marketing areas.

Main Responsibility

• You’ll be working with the New-To-World innovation team to help deliver an ambitious innovation agenda.
• You’ll be helping to transform key insights into distinctive brands with Team Insights and Team NPD.
• You’ll help develop brand worlds and assets with Marketing Managers and Head of NTW Innovation.
• You’ll be at the heart of a learning culture, organising consumer groups and workshops to release creativity and commerciality.

You’ll see brands you create on the shelves, in bars all around the world

Our Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience in brand marketing ideally in FMCG.
• A blend of creative and commercial expertise with the ability to move between brand creation and brand commercialisation effortlessly.
• A resilient attitude, someone who knows how to deliver projects and solve problems.
• A motivated marketer, with success operating with regional teams and markets.

A clear communicator, someone who can articulate brand strategies and envision teams

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.

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