Position Snapshot 

Business Area: Nestlé Purina 
Grocery.com Always on Media Manager - Up to 12 months fixed term contract
Location: Gatwick – Hybrid working: approx. 2 days per week in our office
Salary: £38k - £42k dependent upon experience + potential bonus + 12 flexible days in addition to holiday entitlement + other fantastic benefits

Although this is a full-time temporary opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

Position Summary 
At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.  As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including FELIX®, WINALOT®, GO-CAT®, BAKERS®,  PURINA ONE & GOURMET, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners. We believe that pets and people are better together which is why our employees can bring their dogs to work at our Gatwick and Sudbury sites.

At Purina, we need to be where our shoppers are and work with our customers to provide a positive customer experience with our brilliant brands.  We have a great opportunity based at our Gatwick site, to join our Purina eCommerce Sales team on a 12 month fixed term contract as Grocery.com Always on Media Manager where you will be responsible for the management of Always on Media across grocery.com and emerging channels.  The role requires the recommendation and implementation of always on media collaborating with the Commercial Sales Teams promotional and feature plans and Shopper Brand Plans. It requires skilful and knowledgeable decision making to book, monitor and evaluate media to maximise sales for Purina and deliver ROI.

A day in the life of a Grocery.com Always on Media Manager …
As the Grocery.com Always on Media Manager, your role will involve working across a number of Grocery.com customers to bring to life promotional priorities through an always on media plan. You will purposefully influence and change a shopper's purchase behaviour through different shopper touchpoints and in return drive sales performance, this is done through unlocking insight and targeting bespoke activity, by brand and influence the online shopping journey to benefit Purina's online grocery performance.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Drive sales with strategically aligned retail digital media placements in the lower funnel that encourage shoppers to buy Purina products instead of the competition.
• Effectively manage multiple customers at any one time across promotional plans and shopper brand plans within the assigned budget. 
• Monitor and analyse campaign performance metrics to make 'Always on' investment work smarter. Provide regular reports and insights to key stakeholders.
• Brief and manage agencies from retailer and execution areas through to completion.
• Build effective and rewarding internal & external stakeholder relationships: Be the first port of call for customer/agency and main point of contact for always on media within relevant sales team
• Collaborate with the commercial customer teams to unlock investment that will enable growth in Always On media inline with sales performance:  Make recommendations and collaborate on setting the budgets for the full year and following year to ensure Always On is an integrated part of the customer investment planning cycle 
• Lead the development and execution of media strategies and campaigns for emerging channels such as marketplaces and quick commerce
• Contribute to building capabilities across the business on retail digital media and online. Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments in the media/online landscape, and identify opportunities for our business to leverage them effectively

What will make you successful?
You’ll be part of a dynamic and ambitious team, passionate in pursuing opportunities in this fast paced and constantly evolving space. You will need to be analytical, detail focussed, curious, strategically minded and have excellent skills in prioritising and communicating.

We’re looking for a proactive, enthusiastic individual with the following skills and experience:

• Previous eCommerce or Shopper experience and knowledge of how Sales, Brand & Shopper initiatives work together to ‘win online’
• Online media knowledge of how to amplify brands and promotions through retailer websites
• Demonstrated success in analysing data to implement continuous learning into future work
• Experience of collaborating cross functionally to bring a strategic plan to life
• Ability to build strong relationships internally and externally and within multifunctional teams
• Ability to adapt plans under pressure and effectively communicate to all parties
• Ability to work within budget and analyse ROI and wider business context to suggest future budgets

Why Nestlé? 
In the Nestlé Sales Team, we are creating an environment where we all feel we belong, we are the best we can be, and we win together. We want people to feel they can be themselves, dare greatly and believe their best is yet to come. 

We will actively encourage you to gain different experience in a wide range of roles including our Category Development teams. We want our people to have the breadth and depth of experience and as a result an unrivalled Sales career which could lead to senior roles both in the UK and across other markets. 

Supported by our industry leading eBusiness and Sales Academies which develops you in all aspects of eCommerce, customer and category management, you truly can achieve your full potential whatever that might mean for you.

We will provide support and coaching to help you develop yourself in your career and as an individual, as well as offering great benefits that you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus up to an additional 12 days flex leave, bank holiday exchange, competitive pension scheme and much more. 
 
What you need to know
We will be considering and interviewing candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

Job advert closing date 10/10/2024

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