Head of Tomato Ketchup

Our client is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world. They are a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. While they are co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, their brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

Role Description:

• We have an excellent opportunity available for a senior Head of Marketing, with strong commercial and innovation experience to make a difference.
• The Head of Tomato Ketchup for EPDM lies within the EPDM zone, reporting into the Director of Portfolio, Innovation and New Growth.
• You’ll be leading a vertical in a high performing, cross-functional team, responsible for defining the future of Ketchup.
• Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders, external agencies and customers. 
• The end-to end ownership and delivery of innovation, sustainability, value creation projects and strategy will be your primary responsibility, as well, as the responsibility for the performance and launch of the innovations in the markets, in partnership with the local BUs.
• You will be responsible for leading and delivering the pipeline with customers and consumers, doing the job of a category and brand owner and having shared P&L responsibility for new growth areas.

Responsibilities: 

Head of Platform

In brief, you will be responsible for;

• Building the future of the platform to deliver long-term strategy and breakthrough innovation to accelerate growth for the EPDM zone.
• Leading comms delivery (creative and media) for innovation, renovation and new adjacencies.
• Leading a team of motivated category & brand owners to deliver against your strategy.
• Also leading a cross-fucntional team of supply managers, procurement managers, reporting dotted-line to you as well as R&D managers, insight managers and regulatory and FSQ managers.
• Leveraging insights to address consumer pain-points and drive consumer-first solutions.
• End-to-end business management, including shred P&L responsibility and project selling.
• Building relationships and collaboration with senior cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive engagement across extended business
• Defining new governance structures and business processes to allow for agile innovation.
• Delivering sales with the support of our sales organization.
• Demand planning accountability with the support of demand planning team.
• Supply accountability with the support of collab managers and supply teams.
• Commercial strategy and support implementation.

Requirements:

Hard Skills

• Education: BSc/BA required, MSc preferred
• MBA desired

Work Experience:

• Proven progression in marketing function and commercial setting.
• Track record of delivery innovation, new business models and disruptive innovation.
• Experience managing agency partners for creativity.
• Experience with external sales of ideas, projects and brand innovations.
• 10+ years of managerial experience.
• Experience working in venture building or startup factory desired but not necessary. 
• Knowledge: 10-15 years of FMCG experience (marketing, commercial, innovation).
• Language Knowledge: Business proficient English.

Professional Attributes

Communication Skills

• At our client you’ll easily be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore, it’s important you have excellent communication skills, to deal with all kinds of different stakeholders.

Resilience

• You’re able to bounce back after a disappointment or set back, big or small. And always continue to move onward & upward.

Analytical 

• We’re a very data driven company. You know how to translate complex data into a simple solution with your analytical mindset. 
• Curiosity, positivity & enthusiasm
• Drive growth 
• Understanding of growth levers and 6Ps
• Marketing, commercial toolkit
• RGM

High pressure 

• You don’t get easily stressed by pressure, on the opposite, a demanding and dynamic environment is what keeps you energized.
• Result driven
• You don’t only focus on your own results, but always do what’s best for the company.

What We Offer You:

• An ambitious employer; we only want to the best for you; 
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
• A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market); 
• Permanent contract; for we believe in doing big bets on people; 
• Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know and we can set it in action!