Senior Brand Manager (All Genders)

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Munich, Bavaria, DEU
Hybrid
Senior level
Pet • Retail • Social Impact
Europe’s number 1 online pet supplier
The Role
Lead brand strategy, growth initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration for a pet e-commerce company, focusing on the high-premium segment. Mentor teams, analyze market trends, and drive strategic decisions for long-term impact.
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Company Description

With over 25 years’ experience, plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one, we’re trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier – and that’s something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt; embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. That’s the power of plus.

Job Description

Brand Leadership

  • Lead strategy and execution for your brand, driving positioning, growth plans, and cross-functional initiatives to deliver long-term impact
  • Own strategic decision-making for long-term portfolio positioning and the development of guiding frameworks across the business
  • Steer transformational initiatives such as repositioning, rescue plans
  • Take ownership of Natural High-premium segment and define the growth opportunities in the segment.
  • Drive category-level growth by setting tactical priorities, monitoring performance, and ensuring commercial and marketing alignment
  • Steer decisions on NPD and portfolio optimization
  • Advocate for category initiatives across cross-functional teams, ensuring timely execution and alignment with overall portfolio strategy

Cross-Functional & Organizational Leadership

  • Act as a senior interface across sales, marketing, pricing, procurement, and finance to secure alignment and resources for brand portfolio and category ambitions
  • Elevate cross-functional collaboration from execution to strategic alignment with long-term priorities
  • Mentor and coach Brand Managers and Junior Brand Managers, developing team capability and ensuring succession readiness

Insight & Market Foresight

  • Lead in-depth performance reviews at both brand and category levels, identifying growth drivers and risks
  • Translate insights into strategic action plans for the brand and category, balancing short-term gains with long term sustainability
  • Monitor market and competitor trends, integrating foresight into portfolio and department strategy

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, or a related field; MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification is a plus
  • 9+ years of experience in marketing or brand management, preferably within retail, FMCG or pet nutrition; strong understanding of the natural pet food category is highly desirable
  • Proven track record of leading brand strategy development and execution, with the ability to translate insights into impactful commercial initiatives
  • Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with experience influencing senior cross-functional partners and driving alignment across complex organizations
  • Advanced analytical capabilities, with confidence in leveraging data and large datasets to inform decision-making and measure performance
  • Strategic thinker with a high level of curiosity, ownership, and proactivity; able to navigate ambiguity and lead multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, both written and verbal, with fluency in English; additional languages are an advantage

Additional Information

Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you’ll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you’ll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you’ll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.

At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.

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zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, or a related field
  • 9+ years of experience in marketing or brand management
  • Strong understanding of the natural pet food category
  • Proven track record of leading brand strategy development and execution
  • Strong stakeholder leadership skills
  • Advanced analytical capabilities
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, fluent in English
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The Company
HQ: Munich
1,424 Employees

What We Do

We are zooplus. With over 25 years of exclusive focus on online retail in pet supplies, we are a trailblazer in the industry. Every day, we go the extra mile to meet the unique needs of pets, delivering exceptional value to our customers with an ever-expanding range of nutritional and lifestyle products, proprietary premium food and accessory brands, expert advice, convenient services, and loyalty programs.​ Our commitment to innovation drives us as a team to lead the industry and set new standards for personalized, convenient shopping, consistently exceeding our customers' expectations. This dedication has made us the number one choice for over 12 million customers in 30 countries across Europe.​ Headquartered in Munich, Germany, zooplus employs over 1,200 people across Europe.

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