Marketing Manager

About us

Newly Weds® Foods is a leading, privately owned global food ingredients business and has been innovating since 1932. The European division is a market leader in the manufacture of coatings, seasonings, Sauces and functional ingredient systems.

Today, Newly Weds® Foods is a world leader in food ingredient technology. A network of R&D, manufacturing and service facilities around the globe allows us to serve our customers’ needs in more than 68 countries. But despite our size and scope, we’ve continued to be an independent, family-owned business answerable only to the demands of our customers. That’s why we continue to invest in infrastructure, human resources and capacity to keep pace with our customers’ needs and expectations.

We are looking for a Marketing Manager to lead the consumer, category and channel agenda for our ‘out of home’ sector of our business, servicing the needs of our National chains/QSR, Casual dining, pubs and restaurant, coffee shop and food to go channels within the UK and supporting European expansion.

Delivering key insights with engaging and compelling narrative and carrying out activities that strengthen customer relationships, deliver business wins and create a competitive differentiation driven by our thought leadership.

You will report directly into the Head of Marketing for the UK & Europe at Newly Weds Foods and work alongside our marketing team who are responsible for our retail, manufacturing and home meal delivery channels. Interacting daily with broader commercial, culinary and R&D teams here in the UK, Europe and global business to achieve business goals.

• Identify and communicate insights to support strategy creation across owned area.
• Understand competitive positioning, identify and deliver on opportunities that exist to deliver a USP for the business and our customers.
• Working with commercial and culinary teams to develop executional plans to drive sales performance and achieve business goals. Informing budget priorities and focus.
• Measure:
  Provision of relevant insights and demonstration of strategic thinking to support and shape channel and customer plans

• Anticipate needs of key customers to create a tailored and enhanced customer experience. Strengthening relationships and creating a competitive USP. Managing and delivering upon customer requirements in a timely manner.
• Conduct tailored category reviews and presentations that position NWF as thought leaders. Drive and guide the development of new product listings by providing an insight-led positioning. Present in an engaging manner with clear narrative and story telling that pinpoints the opportunity and supports new business wins.
• Plan, attend and participate in customer facing and industry activities that strengthen NWF's visibility, credibility and market relationship. Creating engaging marketing material. Managing operational assets and resources needed for relevant events.
• Measure:
  Quality & effectiveness of customer facing support, level of responsiveness and attainment of business wins and contribution to customer engagement efforts.

• Monitor trends, consumer behaviours, competitor activity, category activity, cuisine and ingredient culinary trends, use resources efficiently and effectively to capture and distil into an engaging format.
• Combine with our broad insight intelligence to identify compelling insight. Demonstrate an understanding of market performance, consumer…