Position Snapshot  

Purina   

Brand Manager  

Location: Gatwick (Hybrid working - office days 2/3 times a week)  

Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25 day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!  

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like.  

Position Summary  

 We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional Brand Manager to work as part of the Nestlé Purina Pet Care business.   

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®, BAKERS®, GO-CAT®, WINALOT® and GOURMET, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners.   

A day in the life of a Brand Manager…  

 Ultimately, you will be responsible for defining the brand strategy and build long-term plans to achieve our ambitions aligned with the wider business vision; gaining exposure to all elements of the marketing mix and more. The key responsibilities of this role include:   

• Ensure marketing messaging is consistent with Nestlé Group Guidance and in-line with Purina Europe strategy  

•  Ensuring PFME is planned against EMENA strategic priorities and managed effectively and efficiently driving focus on working media and avoiding the creation of local intangibles.  

•  Work with the Senior Brand Manager on managing the development & execution of the Innovation & Renovation Pipeline.  

•  Ensuring the relationship with key media and creative partners is healthy and productive.  

•  Ensuring digital and social are embedded in brand communication plans.  

•  Being a key member of the UK marketing team and ensuring the execution of annual brand targets.  

•  Co-ordinating local commercial stakeholders to ensure brand projects are delivered on time, within budget and in keeping with guidelines set by the principal.  

•  Playing an active role in the UK brand marketing team to drive synergies across the teams.  

•  Engaging with all other internal stakeholders managing all subjects related to the brand  

•  Supporting building Purina as an aspirational place to work for marketing professionals  

 What will make you successful?  

 To be successful in this role you will already have some fantastic marketing experience under your belt. Ideally, you will be already working in a Brand Manager or Assistant Brand Manager role currently. You will be passionate, tenacious; results focused and enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment. Acting as an ambassador for the brands, you will have strong project management and analytical skills. You will need to be highly organised, conscientious and a team player. Pro-activity and enthusiasm are essential elements for this role as is proven leadership capability and creative thinking.  You’ll also:  

• Have the ability to influence at senior levels both internally and externally.  

• Demonstrate strong presentation skills, targeting a wide audience from customers to internal stakeholders.   

• Be able to run sizable projects and work streams from concept to delivery.  

• Have prior knowledge of running multi-pronged communications programmes, with focus on below-the-line activations  

• Be able to demonstrate your experience of leading new product launches, and/or working on challenger brands 

 What you need to know  

What can we offer in return? Great benefits 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 statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.  

The closing date for this role is 6th October 2025.  

We will be considering 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.    

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!