Head of Drinks Acceleration (15 Month Contract)

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Slough, Berkshire, England
In-Office
Senior level
Food
The Role
The Head of Drinks Acceleration is responsible for developing business strategy, leading product lifecycle, managing P&L, and ensuring compliance while working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
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Job Description:

What are we looking for?
  • Proven Sales or Marketing experience, including full management of a business P&L

  • A track record of meeting / exceeding commercial objectives.

  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner and work with others across the organisation to achieve shared objectives and get work done.

  • A self-starter who is results-oriented and pursues opportunities with energy and drive, finding solutions in spite of obstacles and setbacks and always on the hunt for new growth opportunities.

  • Able to efficiently identify, determine root cause, propose and implement solutions to solve problems.

  • Experience in areas such as (but not exclusive to): National Accounts, Marketing Customer Marketing, Category Leadership and SRM.

What will be your key responsibilities?
  • Develop the long term Mars Drinks business strategy focusing on driving core distribution, NPD and MAC attack

  • Leading a cross functional business unit to deliver short term objectives and long-term strategy

  • Lead the end to end product lifecycle from concept to instore execution.

  • Determining the business models and identifying new partners (linear, non liner and licencing)

  • Responsible for in year delivery of financial targets, including leading periodic forecasting and financial decisions to ensure targets are met

  • Responsible for in year delivery of financial targets, including leading periodic forecasting and financial decisions to ensure targets are met

  • Commercial management of product P&L

  • Management and support of external distribution partners including pricing and promotional strategy, category insights and selling stories

  • Work with the Marketing Manager to deliver marketing campaign and activations across the Drinks business

  • Ensuring that the drinks category is compliant with all brand governance.

  • Connecting with internal stakeholders to connect the product portfolio to Snacking Category Vision

What can you expect from Mars?
  • Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.

  • Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Top Skills

Category Leadership
Marketing
National Accounts
P&L Management
Srm
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The Company
HQ: McLean, VA
41,866 Employees
Year Founded: 1911

What We Do

For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.

Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.

We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.

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