Science Plan Brand Manager

No Relocation Assistance Offered

# Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Why Work For Hill's Pet Nutrition:

The learning & development opportunities: You will refine your commercial mind-set and continue to learn new skills working closely with a cross-functional team giving you exposure to all local market departments.

The challenge & variety: You will operate in a fast paced operational environment, directly impacting the day-to-day performance of the business, with personal accountability for your business.

The global experience: You will have the opportunity to work with global brands, participate in global strategies with potential to develop your career internationally.

The Hill's Pet Nutrition Values: To help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Science plan Brand Manager is responsible for executing Hill's go to  market strategy in Pets at Home, our largest retailer.  Working closely with cross functional commercial and Pets at Home marketing teams to ensure our in store and online execution is best in class.   Driving increased engagement and collaboration with Pets at Home is critical in this role by demonstrating category knowledge and shopper insights that will drive both pets at Home category and Hill's business growth. 

The ideal candidate will be highly competent at assessing different data points (both internal and external) and competitive activity and have an ability to translate this learning into developing GTM Plans,  with a high focus on 5Ps and shopper execution to deliver against determined brand and business objectives.  

This role is responsible for supporting the Senior Brand Manager in translating Hill's global brand strategy into local growth plans, working collaboratively in synchronisation together to be the ambassadors for the brand in the UK & IRE.  The ideal candidate is a self starter with a growth mindset, who understands what it takes to effectively execute brand plans in retailers to achieve our growth goals and outperform the competition. You will report to our UK & IRE Science Plan Senior Brand Manager. 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Understand brand & customer priorities in order to build shopper activation plans across both in store and eCom that unlocks mutually beneficial growth 

Maximize the use of existing insights in the business to craft plans and demonstrate thought leadership with retail partners 

Own the execution of Pets at Home shopper calendar ensuring Hill's brand is executed in line with global guidelines 

Review performance of shopper plans against set KPIs, building on learnings and optimising shopper execution in order  to improve return on investment, return on objectives  and unlock incremental growth

Regular monitoring of competitive activity and 5P tracking in Pets at Home to influence plans 

Support the Senior Brand manager in setting and implementing Hill's Science Plan mandated assortment and over all sku simplification processes  

Manage the annual shopper budget, working with procurement to achieve competitive costs 

KEY COMPETENCIES:

Shopper Execution 

Category Management 

Consumer/Customer Focused

Analytical Thinking & Decision Making 

Project Management / Planning / Priority Setting

Teamwork & Collaboration & Communication 

Influence & Negotiation

Self-awareness/Personal Impact

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

Educated to degree level

Shopper/Retail marketing experience 

Digital marketing experience 

Ability to identify local issues & opportunity and articulate & deliver growth plans against these 

Excellent analytical skills, able to interpret data across multiple sources 

Strong communication and stakeholder engagement

Proactive / Self starter 

Confident, able to lead and work effectively in a cross functional team

Equal Opportunity Employer

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Are you interested in working for Hill's Pet Nutrition?

You can apply online and attach all relevant documents such as a cover letter and resume or CV. Applications received by e-mail are not considered in the selection process. Become part of our team. We look forward to your application.

Work that matters, fueled by passion for pets  At Hill's we have a purpose.  Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, amazing nutrition, and the best and brightest people. Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hills' mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets. 

HILL'S Prescription Diet therapeutic pet foods, HILL'S Science Diet and HILL'S Ideal Balance wellness pet foods are sold worldwide. Hill's is a division of Colgate-Palmolive, a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, with sales of products in more than 200 countries.  To learn more about Hill's and Colgate, please visit and , or find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.