Brand Manager -Da Vinci Gourmt

Requisition ID 51791
Position Type FT Permanent
Recruiter #LI-RG1
Posting Type LI

About Kerry Kerry is the worlds leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment. About the role

Food Service sits as a key strategic growth platform for Kerry Group, significantly impacting our business and helping us deliver our strategy and vision. You will be responsible for driving growth through the marketing deliverables across Middle East and Africa Foodservice Customers whilst working in alignment with the Food Services General Manager (GM), and the wider Food Service commercial team.

This role will develop relevant and proactive insights, Lead marketing initiatives and execute the foodservice business plan across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), focusing on our Da Vinci Gourmet (DVG) brand.

You will partner with the teams to ensure best in class customer engagement. You will be adept at harvesting insights to create a clearly defined go-to-market plan aligned to business strategy and growth opportunities.

Key responsibilities

Strategy/ Opportunity management / Customer Management

• Own the develop and execute a localized MEA foodservice plan for our DVG brand

• Support with execution of Best-in-class customer engagement experience

• Support the opportunity pipeline for both new and existing customers, aligning and prioritizing to strategic focus and plans.

• Review success of marketing activation plans for FS across MEA against key KPIs.

• Drive demand creation and performance aligned to account plans.

Consumer Insights

• Stay well-informed of changes in competitive landscape and to enable design differentiated strategies and positioning

• Develop and own a comprehensive understanding of current channel / dynamics, consumer trends, key customers positions and strategies, etc.

• Partner with regional insights team to deliver compelling proprietary market and consumer insights that drive and support channel / Sub-Region strategic commercial decisions

• Use data to assess success of previous campaigns/ initiatives and recommend corrective action where necessary

Qualifications and skills

• Related Bachelor’s Degree & strong passion for marketing and food/food technology

• Min 3 years of experience in either FMCG/ Food & Beverage marketing/ product management in a multi-national company environment

• Excellent presentation and communications skills, fluency in Arabic would be advantageous.

• Strong analytical skills analyzing consumer / marketing / sales data - Ability to anticipate customer (internal and external) needs

• Strong project time management skills; ability to manage multiple details and deadlines in a matrix organizations

• Strong consulting and facilitation skills (diplomatic and collaborative).

• High energy, can-do approach, high level of emotional intelligence

• A passion for actively engaging across the business, building partnerships based on trust and integrity.

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.