Job Introduction
Are you passionate about shoppers and category? As our WG&S business continues to grow, we are developing our category & shopper marketing capability and putting in place globally consistent processes and ways of working, as key enablers of innovation, creativity and brilliant execution within our marketing and commercial teams. The Associate Global Director of Shopper Marketing has a critical leadership role to play to unlock incremental growth opportunities using category, shopper and channel insights and develop effective activations across our portfolio of brands that drive conversion through brilliant execution in market.
Main Responsibility
You will lead the Global Shopper Marketing team and work closely with global brand teams to develop shopper marketing insights, leveraging these to identify shopper missions/occasions, barriers and relevant channel activation opportunities and create appropriate shopper conversion activations that are clearly & effectively presented in toolkits that markets leverage to execute at scale. You will lead the development of shopper marketing capability globally so that this becomes a strength for WG&S. You will work with key markets to drive quality & scale of execution of global programs, leveraging M&E to optimize global guidance ongoing.
Our Ideal Candidate
You are passionate about shoppers and category. You are an expert in this function & how it fits into a CPG organisation and you are able to influence senior stakeholders to raise the profile and drive the agenda of shopper marketing as a key enabler to long term business growth. You are able to build strong relationships and flex your influencing style to successfully drive and embed change within an organisation, understanding where to hold the line & where to flex. Your natural working style is pro-active and constructive, working in collaboration with teams from different functions and markets to achieve the best results for WG&S. You have a strong external focus and bring this into your work, driving future growth opportunities & setting a high benchmark for best practice.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
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