Shopper Marketing Manager

Shape the Future of Shopper Marketing at JDE

Are you passionate about turning shopper insight into commercial growth? Do you thrive on building winning customer partnerships, leading innovative retail activations, and influencing business strategy?

At JDE, we're looking for an exceptional Shopper Marketing Manager to join our UK team and drive impactful shopper strategies across some of the UK's most important grocery retail customers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, home to some of the most loved brands enjoyed by millions of consumers every day. As part of a global business that combines the scale of an FMCG leader with an entrepreneurial culture, you'll have the opportunity to shape shopper experiences, influence category growth, and make a tangible impact on business performance.

Whether you're currently working in Shopper Marketing, Customer Marketing, Category Management, or a Commercial role within FMCG, this role offers the chance to broaden your influence, increase your ownership, and accelerate your career.

At JDE, we believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We foster a high-performance culture where people are empowered to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and deliver outstanding results.

• Working with iconic coffee and tea brands loved by consumers around the world.
• Being part of a collaborative, fast-paced and ambitious FMCG business.
• Having the autonomy to influence strategy as well as execution.
• Building strong partnerships with some of the UK's leading grocery retailers.
• Gaining exposure to senior stakeholders across Commercial, Marketing, Category and Leadership teams.
• Supporting exciting innovation launches and growth initiatives.
• Developing your career within a truly global organisation.

As Shopper Marketing Manager, you'll lead the development and execution of insight-led shopper marketing strategies across key grocery customers. You'll be responsible for translating brand ambitions, shopper insights and customer objectives into compelling activation plans that drive conversion, category growth and commercial success.

This role sits at the heart of the business, working closely with Sales, Brand, Category, Revenue Growth Management and external agency partners to create best-in-class shopper experiences both in-store and online.

• Lead shopper marketing activation plans across priority grocery customers with a category-first mindset.
• Develop customer-specific plans that align brand strategy, category opportunities and retailer objectives.
• Deliver best-in-class retail media, omnichannel activation, in-store execution and customer campaigns.
• Partner with Sales, Brand, Category and Revenue Growth Management teams to develop integrated customer plans.
• Collaborate with retailer media teams and commercial contacts to build strong partnerships and unlock growth opportunities.
• Lead activation planning for innovation launches, seasonal campaigns and strategic business priorities.
• Manage agency partners to ensure exceptional execution and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate campaign effectiveness, shopper engagement, ROI and sales performance, using insights to optimise future activity.
• Manage activation budgets, forecasting and investment tracking.
• Champion shopper-centric thinking across the organisation.
• Lead annual customer planning events and cross-functional workshops.
• Coach and support junior team members and project teams where applicable.

We're looking for a commercially minded, highly collaborative FMCG professional who knows how to turn insight into action and deliver measurable results.

• Experience in Shopper Marketing, Customer Marketing, Category Management, Sales or a related commercial FMCG function.
• Proven success developing and delivering retailer-specific activation plans.
• Experience working with major UK grocery retailers.
• Strong understanding of retail media and omnichannel shopper activation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
• Strong commercial acumen and budget management experience.
• Ability to analyse performance data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Excellent communication, presentation and storytelling skills.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Confidence using data, technology and AI-enabled tools to improve effectiveness and…