Zest
Senior Brand Manager - 12-Month FTC Location: Cambridgeshire (Hybrid Working - minimum 3 days on-site) Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract Sector: FMCG / Food & Beverage Are you a highly collaborative Senior Brand Manager with a passion for innovation, consumer-centricity, and a record of full accountability of building a strong innovation pipeline? A unique opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Brand Manager to join this manufacturing business on a 12-month FTC basis. It offers the chance to re-launch a key product range, drive growth in the protein drinks segment, and build an innovation pipeline aligned with the dynamic "on-the-go" breakfast occasion. You will be responsible for delivering the full brand plan - from strategy to execution - ensuring strong brand performance, effective budget control, and cross-functional alignment across the business. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the re-launch and execution of a breakfast drinks brand, building a robust 'on the go' innovation pipeline. - Drive growth in the protein drinks category through targeted marketing plans, consumer-led campaigns, and innovation. - Build a 24-month innovation pipeline grounded in insight and category trends, working with NPD and cross-functional teams from concept to launch. - Design, implement, and measure a 12-18-month brand plan to achieve KPIs and brand growth targets. - Full accountability for brand budget allocation, monitoring and control, ensuring resources are maximised and ROI is delivered. - Collaborate closely with Category, Sales, Finance, NPD, and Operations to align strategy and delivery. - Act as the face of the brand with key retail partners, presenting innovation plans, marketing campaigns, and performance updates. - Lead the execution of integrated campaigns across digital, PR, shopper, and experiential channels. About You: You're a confident and collaborative marketer with strong commercial acumen, a passion for consumer trends, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver real business results. You bring: - Proven experience in a brand management role within food / beverage industry. - A strong track record of product re-launches, innovation delivery, and performance management. - Excellent strategic thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Strong analytical capability - able to interpret data, generate insights, and turn them into actionable plans. - Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on - this is a role where you'll own the end-to-end brand journey. - Integrity - dealing with others in an honest manner, take accountability for actions, supporting company values and maintaining confidentiality. What's on Offer: - High-impact, strategic role on a brand with strong growth ambitions - Opportunity to own full brand responsibility and lead a major product re-launch - Hybrid working with a collaborative, cross-functional team - Competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to make a visible difference in 12 months If you're a brand leader ready to hit the ground running and make your mark in a dynamic and growing category, we'd love to hear from you. As you know over here at Zest we like to do things properly and always want to keep you, the candidate in the loop. Applying to this 'one of a kind' role you give Zest permission to hold your information. If you want to know more about how Zest look after your personal information please visit our privacy policy on the website (url removed)
Senior Brand Manager - 12-Month FTC Location: Cambridgeshire (Hybrid Working - minimum 3 days on-site) Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract Sector: FMCG / Food & Beverage Are you a highly collaborative Senior Brand Manager with a passion for innovation, consumer-centricity, and a record of full accountability of building a strong innovation pipeline? A unique opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Brand Manager to join this manufacturing business on a 12-month FTC basis. It offers the chance to re-launch a key product range, drive growth in the protein drinks segment, and build an innovation pipeline aligned with the dynamic "on-the-go" breakfast occasion. You will be responsible for delivering the full brand plan - from strategy to execution - ensuring strong brand performance, effective budget control, and cross-functional alignment across the business. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the re-launch and execution of a breakfast drinks brand, building a robust 'on the go' innovation pipeline. - Drive growth in the protein drinks category through targeted marketing plans, consumer-led campaigns, and innovation. - Build a 24-month innovation pipeline grounded in insight and category trends, working with NPD and cross-functional teams from concept to launch. - Design, implement, and measure a 12-18-month brand plan to achieve KPIs and brand growth targets. - Full accountability for brand budget allocation, monitoring and control, ensuring resources are maximised and ROI is delivered. - Collaborate closely with Category, Sales, Finance, NPD, and Operations to align strategy and delivery. - Act as the face of the brand with key retail partners, presenting innovation plans, marketing campaigns, and performance updates. - Lead the execution of integrated campaigns across digital, PR, shopper, and experiential channels. About You: You're a confident and collaborative marketer with strong commercial acumen, a passion for consumer trends, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver real business results. You bring: - Proven experience in a brand management role within food / beverage industry. - A strong track record of product re-launches, innovation delivery, and performance management. - Excellent strategic thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Strong analytical capability - able to interpret data, generate insights, and turn them into actionable plans. - Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on - this is a role where you'll own the end-to-end brand journey. - Integrity - dealing with others in an honest manner, take accountability for actions, supporting company values and maintaining confidentiality. What's on Offer: - High-impact, strategic role on a brand with strong growth ambitions - Opportunity to own full brand responsibility and lead a major product re-launch - Hybrid working with a collaborative, cross-functional team - Competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to make a visible difference in 12 months If you're a brand leader ready to hit the ground running and make your mark in a dynamic and growing category, we'd love to hear from you. As you know over here at Zest we like to do things properly and always want to keep you, the candidate in the loop. Applying to this 'one of a kind' role you give Zest permission to hold your information. If you want to know more about how Zest look after your personal information please visit our privacy policy on the website (url removed)
Booker Group
Croydon, Surrey
What's in it for you At Booker, along with being a great place to work and giving you an opportunity to get on in your career, we also offer the following fantastic package of benefits: A Booker colleague card with 10% off purchases at Booker and double discount events up to three times a year. After 3 months service, a Tesco colleague discount card with 10% increasing to 15% off most purchases at Tesco for a 4 day period after every four-weekly pay day, ie. thirteen times a year. In addition to 10% off at Tesco Cafe and 20% off all F&F purchases. 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile for yourself, along with further great deals through-out the year. Up to 30% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. Terms and conditions apply. Free eye test when you spend £50 or more. You can also save 30% when you spend £50 or more on glasses, prescription sunglasses and contact lenses. 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy. Exclusive access to discounted RAC breakdown cover rates An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases including a cycle to work scheme. After 3 months service, you can join our annual Save As You Earn share scheme which allows you to buy Tesco shares in the future at a discount. Retirement savings plan (pension) - save up to 5% and Booker will match your contribution. Life Assurance - You are covered for death in service life cover of up to three times annual pay Health and Wellbeing support and resources including our 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP for you and your family. A great holiday package About the role About the role We have an exciting opportunity for a driven sales-focused business developer to play a pivotal role in growing our rapid grocery delivery network across the South of England. You'll be at the forefront of retailer acquisition and sales growth, working alongside a high-performing team of BDMs and RDMs to expand our footprint and maximise sales performance. This isn't just about building pipelines it's about closing deals, growing accounts, and driving revenue while helping us to succeed in the fast-moving world of rapid grocery delivery. You'll build strong partnerships, unlock sales opportunities, and bring the energy and focus needed to deliver against ambitious growth targets. This is a hybrid role, splitting your time between home and travelling to external retailers. About Scoot Scoot is a food delivery platform transforming the way communities shop, offering an innovative rapid grocery delivery platform designed to keep up with today's on-demand lifestyles. Backed by Booker Group and supporting symbol brands like Premier, Londis, Budgens, and Family Shopper, we're on a mission to help local retailers thrive in the fast-evolving grocery landscape. You will be responsible for You will be responsible for Driving Sales Growth: Proactively identify, pitch, and onboard high-potential symbol stores to the Scoot platform, ensuring strong conversion and sustainable performance. Retailer Acquisition & Onboarding: Own the end-to-end sales process, from prospecting and pitching through to contract negotiation and onboarding. Maximising Performance: Develop sales and marketing strategies to increase order volume, basket size, and platform profitability across your network. Leveraging Food Delivery Expertise: Bring insights and learnings from working with leading food delivery platforms to help retailers compete and thrive in a digital-first, on-demand world. Building Commercial Partnerships: Develop trusted relationships with retailers, supporting them to unlock new revenue streams and stay competitive. Using Data to Sell Smarter: Analyse sales and delivery data to identify opportunities, shape commercial conversations, and close more deals. Staying Competitive: Monitor the food and grocery delivery landscape, using market trends to strengthen our sales approach and stay ahead of the competition. You will need You will need Proven Sales Background: A strong track record of exceeding sales targets in business development, account management, or territory sales. Food Delivery Platform Experience: Experience working with or selling into on-demand/food delivery platforms (Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat, etc.), with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities they bring for retailers. Grocery/Retail Knowledge: Familiar with the grocery sector, wholesale, or convenience retail, ideally with experience scaling on-demand platforms. Stakeholder Management: Skilled at winning buy-in and influencing business owners, managers, and decision-makers in B2B environments. Data-Led Sales: Confident in using sales metrics, KPIs, and performance data to drive commercial outcomes and close opportunities. Communication & Negotiation: A persuasive and engaging communicator with excellent presentation and negotiation skills. Resilient & Results-Oriented: A proactive self-starter with a solutions-focused mindset, motivated by hitting and exceeding sales targets. About The Company Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, eight distribution centres, five Best Food Logistics sites, as well as six support centre locations across the UK. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Booker means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we're a place where Everyone's Welcome. We know life looks a little different for each of us. That's why at Booker and Best, we always welcome conversations about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we may be able to support you. We're proud that Booker is a Disability C
What's in it for you At Booker, along with being a great place to work and giving you an opportunity to get on in your career, we also offer the following fantastic package of benefits: A Booker colleague card with 10% off purchases at Booker and double discount events up to three times a year. After 3 months service, a Tesco colleague discount card with 10% increasing to 15% off most purchases at Tesco for a 4 day period after every four-weekly pay day, ie. thirteen times a year. In addition to 10% off at Tesco Cafe and 20% off all F&F purchases. 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile for yourself, along with further great deals through-out the year. Up to 30% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. Terms and conditions apply. Free eye test when you spend £50 or more. You can also save 30% when you spend £50 or more on glasses, prescription sunglasses and contact lenses. 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy. Exclusive access to discounted RAC breakdown cover rates An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases including a cycle to work scheme. After 3 months service, you can join our annual Save As You Earn share scheme which allows you to buy Tesco shares in the future at a discount. Retirement savings plan (pension) - save up to 5% and Booker will match your contribution. Life Assurance - You are covered for death in service life cover of up to three times annual pay Health and Wellbeing support and resources including our 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP for you and your family. A great holiday package About the role About the role We have an exciting opportunity for a driven sales-focused business developer to play a pivotal role in growing our rapid grocery delivery network across the South of England. You'll be at the forefront of retailer acquisition and sales growth, working alongside a high-performing team of BDMs and RDMs to expand our footprint and maximise sales performance. This isn't just about building pipelines it's about closing deals, growing accounts, and driving revenue while helping us to succeed in the fast-moving world of rapid grocery delivery. You'll build strong partnerships, unlock sales opportunities, and bring the energy and focus needed to deliver against ambitious growth targets. This is a hybrid role, splitting your time between home and travelling to external retailers. About Scoot Scoot is a food delivery platform transforming the way communities shop, offering an innovative rapid grocery delivery platform designed to keep up with today's on-demand lifestyles. Backed by Booker Group and supporting symbol brands like Premier, Londis, Budgens, and Family Shopper, we're on a mission to help local retailers thrive in the fast-evolving grocery landscape. You will be responsible for You will be responsible for Driving Sales Growth: Proactively identify, pitch, and onboard high-potential symbol stores to the Scoot platform, ensuring strong conversion and sustainable performance. Retailer Acquisition & Onboarding: Own the end-to-end sales process, from prospecting and pitching through to contract negotiation and onboarding. Maximising Performance: Develop sales and marketing strategies to increase order volume, basket size, and platform profitability across your network. Leveraging Food Delivery Expertise: Bring insights and learnings from working with leading food delivery platforms to help retailers compete and thrive in a digital-first, on-demand world. Building Commercial Partnerships: Develop trusted relationships with retailers, supporting them to unlock new revenue streams and stay competitive. Using Data to Sell Smarter: Analyse sales and delivery data to identify opportunities, shape commercial conversations, and close more deals. Staying Competitive: Monitor the food and grocery delivery landscape, using market trends to strengthen our sales approach and stay ahead of the competition. You will need You will need Proven Sales Background: A strong track record of exceeding sales targets in business development, account management, or territory sales. Food Delivery Platform Experience: Experience working with or selling into on-demand/food delivery platforms (Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat, etc.), with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities they bring for retailers. Grocery/Retail Knowledge: Familiar with the grocery sector, wholesale, or convenience retail, ideally with experience scaling on-demand platforms. Stakeholder Management: Skilled at winning buy-in and influencing business owners, managers, and decision-makers in B2B environments. Data-Led Sales: Confident in using sales metrics, KPIs, and performance data to drive commercial outcomes and close opportunities. Communication & Negotiation: A persuasive and engaging communicator with excellent presentation and negotiation skills. Resilient & Results-Oriented: A proactive self-starter with a solutions-focused mindset, motivated by hitting and exceeding sales targets. About The Company Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, eight distribution centres, five Best Food Logistics sites, as well as six support centre locations across the UK. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Booker means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we're a place where Everyone's Welcome. We know life looks a little different for each of us. That's why at Booker and Best, we always welcome conversations about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we may be able to support you. We're proud that Booker is a Disability C
