At Valeo Foods UK, we're the creative force behind beloved brands like Kettle Chips, Rowse Honey, and Matthew Walker puddings. Our diverse portfolio also includes meat snacks with the brands Kings and Wild West, Barratt sweets with Wham, Dip Dab, Refreshers and many other brands, each with its own unique story and flavour.
We’re excited to share that now our new Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Inpong, has joined the business we are set to redefine our marketing strategies and drive growth. To support this vision, we're opening several key roles within our restructured marketing team. These positions are essential for driving innovation, enhancing our brand presence, and delighting consumers. We offer best-in-class marketing training through the Valeo Brand Building Academy and on-the-job coaching to ensure your success.
Join us on a journey where passion meets flavour, crafting experiences that bring people together and delight taste buds.
Job DescriptionWe are seeking a dynamic and motivated Assistant Brand Managers to join our marketing team. The ideal candidate will assist in the development and implementation of brand strategies, ensuring alignment with our company's vision and goals.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of our brand along with having a unique and tailored 1 year training program to allow you to gain experience within our Marketing, Business Intelligence, Research and Development and Category team's across Valeo Foods UK.
This is a flexible hybrid role with 2/3 days per week at our York site.
Qualifications- Good leadership to shape, align and plan
- Strong analytical thinking
- Good capacity to create and embrace change
- Very strong “Personal Best” mindset: to seek to be better tomorrow than we are today
- Good stewardship of initiatives from the brand plans
- Strong presentation skills – written and verbal
- Very strong ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Emerging experience of the full marketing mix – from insight generation, problem-solving, target-setting, delivering and measuring
- Strong leadership expressed in other fields than corporate life
- Good experience in interacting successfully with different stakeholders an
- Very strong track record of creating change that shaped the thinking and deliver results
What we offer you in return
- £25,000 - £28,000
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Matched pension scheme
- Death in service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Canteen
- Retailer discount platform
- Staff discount
- And plenty more!
Top Skills
What We Do
We are a leading producer and innovator of high quality, category-defining branded food products that have a proud history that dates back to 1845.
At Valeo Foods, we are passionate about food and our portfolio of over 20 iconic food brands, which includes Jacobs, Batchelors, Kettle, Rowse Honey, Balconi, Schluckwerder, are tried and trusted by consumers across Ireland, UK and Europe for their quality, wholesomeness, nutrition and fun.
We are a diverse business that combines food production, brand development and innovation, distribution and sales. We are Ireland’s largest ambient food supplier to the grocery trade, a major supplier to the food service market through Valeo Professional, and an increasingly prominent supplier to the UK market and a range of European Markets now.
We are focused on the continued development of our excellent portfolio of category defining food brands as we look to expand our footprint across Ireland, UK, Europe and beyond with our latest acquisition in North America. We are committed to delivering quality food products through continued innovation and excellence in manufacturing. This commitment ensures that our brands retain a market leading position in each of their respective categories.
We continue to recruit people with the best skills and expertise across a range of areas including manufacturing, food science, research and development, nutrition, distribution, sales, operations, marketing, human resources and finance, and aspire to be a best in class employer, focused on developing and empowering our people.
