Global Senior Product Manager

**Position: Global Senior Product Manager** **Based: Haddenham, UK** **The Global Senior Product Manager - Herbs, Spices and Extracts, will be responsible for leading global initiatives and working with all international markets to accelerate the growth of Herbs, Spices and Extracts brands. This includes gathering andanalyzing data, identifying global consumer insights, competitive analysis, and identifying and securing claims. This role will also support branding work, which includes brand positioning work and brand books.** **MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES** - Manages communication and relationships with global markets. - Provides support to the regions by problem solving issues and getting cross-functional resources. - Gathers and summarizes consumer insights, in collaboration with the markets to develop plans to achieve revenue goals. - Creates new tools and processes to improve communication across markets. - Provides information and slides for key presentations (CAGNY, BOD, quarterly updates, etc) - Supports Global Marketing Director in brand tool creation in collaboration with business leads, including brand positioning tools updates, brand books and style guides. - Identifies and secures global claims using Euromonitor and other information data bases. - Analyzes and consolidates information from the global markets and develop recommendations and best practices. - Serves as a liaison cross-functionally and across markets for product development, quality, finance and legal. - Creates and delivers presentations across regions and to upper management. **CANDIDATE PROFILE** - Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing or related discipline. - Combined minimum of 5+ years Marketing experience. - Demonstrated relevant skills & results in consumer packaged goods marketing, forecasting. - Advertising, market research, consumer & trade promotion, P&L management and business planning. - Experience leading and collaborating with cross-functional team. Experience presenting to upper management. - Experience formulating strong brand strategies, business analysis, KPI development, plan implementations. - Expertise in syndicated databases, market research, business and brand planning, finance and communications. - Highly skilled in power point and excel. - Strong personal and team leadership; effective influencer to upper management and peers. - Able to be excellent at strategic thinking while being action oriented. - Has an entrepreneurial spirit: optimistic, natural owner, proactive, able to adapt and create new processes, empirically creative, ability to manage multiple projects. - Outstanding written and verbal communication (clear and concise), able to interact with multiple personalities and multiple cultures. - Fast and autonomous learner that can manage multiple projects. - Attention to detail, highly organized and excellent follow through. **COMPANY** At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better. Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With 12,400 employees around the world and more than $5 Billion in annual sales., the Company manufactures,markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers. While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 135 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North,South and Central America. At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our "Power of People" principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values. **TO APPLY** If you are looking for a new challenge and want to join a highly motivated team in a rewarding environment, seeking a competitive salary and benefits package and opportunity to work with a global flavour leader. Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies. McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protectedveteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.