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This is a 12 month fixed term contract. 

Role Purpose:

As a Senior Brand Manager within Danone you will be accountable for driving the performance of the Aptamil brand, the No 1 brand in the formula milk market in the UK and globally. Your role will be critical in shaping the plans to deliver on our recruitment, Net sales and market share goals.

Key Activities:

P&L delivery and commercial leadership:

• Track and monitor core brand performance throughout the year and recommend course correction as needed (feeding into the business performance cycle)
• Campaign/initiative analysis with recommendations for future improvements and optimal A+P allocation
• Excite and engage commercial teams/external buying teams with overall brand strategy and key brand initiatives

Brand building/Portfolio:

• Continuously build with global & cross functional team brand superiority vs competitors

• Partner with marketing teams to deliver excellence in execution across the marketing funnel
• Partner with sales to drive perfect execution in key channels (grocery, convenience and online)

• Innovation: Responsible for landing strategic innovation with key customer in 2025, working with global to leverage best practices for roll-out

Lead communications & creative:

• Lead the local deployment of global/regional comms platforms together to drive brand equity

• Partner with IBC teams to maximise impact of comms across the marketing funnel. 

Direct report functional management:

• Bring direction and clarity to direct reports, enabling DRs to deliver against objectives with excellence

We would like you to demonstrate your following key skills:

• Strategic impact:
  • Demonstrate influential strategic thinking for key focus areas and deliver against it.
  • Show curiosity to challenge thinking thanks to connections with wider business and external market.
• Leadership:
  • Lead beyond function by taking an active role in broader business discussions and adopting responsibility for people beyond own team and function.
  • Adopt an authentic role model leadership posture by leading with courage, empathy and with clarity in ambiguity.       
• Accountability:
  • Take accountability for business delivery, showing commerciality in decision making and understanding impact on other areas of the business to deliver the financial equation.
  • Able to demonstrate agility between strategy & delivery, long term & day to day. Adapts to an agile complex environment.             
• Stakeholder management:
  • Influence relationships with a broad set of stakeholders internally and externally.
  • Engages stakeholder behind our story and influences with impact & gravitas.

At Danone UK & Ireland, we are committed to delivering better health through better nutrition for millions of consumers and patients in our communities.

We have a range of flexible benefits and excellent rewards, click here to find out more.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA, representing our core values and beliefs. We embrace diversity as a driving force for positive change, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 15th December, you will therefore hear about your application after this date.