Assistant Brand Manager

Assistant Brand Manager

Marketing | Leeds | Full Time | Permanent

We are Dr. Oetker. Since our beginnings, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts at the core of our business, as well as digital platforms and services – we create the "Taste of Home" for millions around the world with you.

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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Great News! We have a fantastic opportunity for Assistant Brand Manager to join our Marketing Team working within our Chicago Town Pizza Brand team.

We’re looking for an Assistant Brand Manager to support the development and delivery of consumer-focused strategies across the Chicago Town brand and its sub-brands. Working closely with the Senior Brand Manager, you’ll help bring brand plans to life to drive sustainable growth.

This role offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience across the full marketing mix - from insight and performance tracking to campaign delivery and product launches - while working with internal teams and external agencies to drive brand growth.

As a global, family run business our culture is really important to us. All of our employees are inspired and motivated to create a competitive advantage in the market place for our customers and consumers, whilst having fun at the same time!

We’re looking for someone who can…

• Support the development and execution of brand plans, ensuring activity aligns with the Chicago Town brand proposition and commercial objectives.
• Assist in managing brand projects from concept through to launch, working with internal teams and agency partners to deliver on time and to budget.
• Track brand performance, competitor activity and consumer insight to help inform brand strategy and identify opportunities for growth.

A career at Dr. Oetker will provide you with:

• Hands-on experience working on a well-loved FMCG brand across campaigns, innovation and brand planning.
• Experience across a variety of brand projects working with cross-functional teams including sales, category, innovation and international colleagues.
• Opportunities to build your marketing skills while working within a collaborative, passionate and supportive team culture who are obsessed with delivering for our consumers.

What You Bring:

• A strong interest in brand marketing and an understanding of how consumer insight and commercial performance drive growth.
• Excellent organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to collaborate with agencies, stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

The role will be based from our Leeds Head Office (Thorpe Park, Leeds) and we are currently working to a hybrid working model where 2/3 days per week are home working. You do need to be able to commute to our Leeds Head Office, Leyland Production site and other external locations for face-to-face collaboration and to meet business requirements.

What We Offer:

The Assistant Brand Manager offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including:

• Hybrid working pattern (minimum of 2 days a week office based)
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Free life assurance 4x annual salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme (3% employee contributions, 6% employer contributions)
• Private health care provided by Bupa (single cover)
• Health Care Cash Plan Scheme (provided by Bupa)
• Annual healthy heart MOT’s
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• State of the art office environment with free wifi, tea, coffee, fruit and snacks
• Onsite free car park
• Employee referral scheme (£350 per referral, you’ll want to tell your friends and family all about us!)
• Incentivised employee suggestion schemes
• Employee loyalty scheme, recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 years and beyond
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye test vouchers
• A great place to work and access to our cake & pizza products!

We look forward to your online application. Just click the "Apply now" button, and you're good to go. Still have questions? Then please feel free to reach out to us directly.

Dr. Oetker is an equal opportunities employer. We continuously work to shape and live in a corporate culture where everyone feels welcome. At Dr. Oetker, your personality and qualifications are what count. Not gender, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, age or sexual orientation, and identity.

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