Job Description
Location - anywhere across the UK
ABOUT DIVERSEY (A SOLENIS COMPANY)
We are relentlessly pursuing our purpose to go beyond clean to take care of what’s precious. In today’s world of increasing resource scarcity – including water, energy, materials, and labour – we need to achieve more with less for the well-being of today’s generations and for future generations.
We stand behind every committed leader and employee of our customers, across all levels of the organisation. We stand with the buyer, the chef, the building service contractor, the food processing manager, the nurse, the doctor, dairy processor, the hotel cleaner, head teacher, the store manager and many more who understand that hygiene and infection prevention are imperative to their business, their customers, their reputation, and the environment.
Our determination to take care of the precious resources on our planet and our genuine care for our people, customers, and the environment set us apart. Over the course of 100 years, we have continued to refine our suite of solutions, which combines patented chemicals, dosing and dispensing equipment, cleaning machines, services, and digital analysis.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a talented and experienced marketing professional to join our European marketing team for this UKI role. This position can be based anywhere across the United Kingdom. Traveling will be expected up to 10% of the time, with occasional visits to our offices in Northampton.
In this role you will manage and lead the innovative Kitchen Care and Fabric Care cluster portfolio for the UK and Ireland. You will be responsible for driving growth and profitability for your portfolio via New Product Development, product lifecycle management and activation of all new product introductions and innovations within your market.
This means that you will be responsible for all product marketing needs within your portfolio, which includes everything from defining the medium- and long-term strategy, understanding the end customer needs and creating value propositions for white spaces and opportunities in the market.
You will also be expected to support the development and implementation of relevant marketing support materials and collaterals.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading and managing the Kitchen Care and Fabric Care portfolio for the UK&I, ensuring implementation and delivery with excellence. The portfolio plans you develop are there to promote the Kitchen Care and Fabric Care portfolio, together with other sectors (30% of your time).
- Being an active member of the European Kitchen Care and Fabric Care project teams through further development of new innovations and propositions in order to add value and bring profitable growth to Diversey/Solenis (NPD/NPI) (30% of your time).
- Taking the lead role in monitoring and managing the product life cycle, driving improvements in sales and profitability via portfolio mix optimizations and innovation roll out (20% of your time).
- Helping localise and develop product support and marketing collateral materials whilst liaising with local sales organisations to present programs, activities and new product introductions and innovations (10% of your time).
- Ensuring a high standard of execution and delivery across all projects (10% of your time).
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US:
- European projects – You will have the chance to be involved in European projects and if you like also take the lead on them.
- European, cross-department collaboration - In this role you will be collaborating with a lot of colleagues across the organisation and hence, will be influencing stakeholders in a matrix organization, which is part of your job. You will work closely with teams such as Supply Chain and Sales.
- Working for a global market leader - Diversey and Solenis are both global players with a very strong reputation within our industry. Now both companies have merged together, we even have a bigger impact on the world and together form an even stronger brand (portfolios).
- Career growth – We are open to hiring someone in the early years of their marketing/portfolio management career; someone who has the ambition to grow further into European or Global (leadership) roles later on.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE
- 5+ years of experience as a Marketing Professional (i.e. in portfolio management, trade marketing, brand management or similar). Experience working with technological cleaning solutions will be considered a plus
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree
- Experience working in B2B Marketing
- Experience managing both projects and innovation launches.
- Strong marketing background and track record of developing, launches and managing marketing campaigns.
- Ability to understand local competitive landscape and transform it into pricing / promotional activities.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with both frontline colleagues and senior managers / stakeholders.
- Ability to motivate individuals and teams within the organisation.
- Very resilient, capable of demonstrating relentless drive and tenacity.
- Ability to take ownership and initative
- Energy, willingness to learn and grit to succeed.
Benefits Package
- £40,000+ base salary (will vary depending on level of experience)
- PerkBox: Employee Discount and Wellbeing Platform
- Annual leave: 25 days
- Accident & Life Insurance: 1 x annual salary to 4 x annual salary (Linked to Employee Pension contribution %)
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
- Employer contribution to pension insurance (Employee 3% & Employer 5% or Employee 4% & Employer 6%)
- Accident & Death Insurance.