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Mars UK • GBR-Berkshire-Slough | IRL-Dublin-Dublin | United Kingdom

Senior Brand Manager Celebrations & Gifting

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Job Description:

Senior Brand Manager Celebrations & Gifting

UKI Marketing Team, Mars Wrigley

We are excited to announce the opportunity to join the Mars Wrigley Marketing Team as Senior Brand Manager Celebrations® and Gifting. Mars Wrigley has retail rales of over £1 billion per annum, with loved household brands such as Maltesers®, Galaxy®, Extra®, Snickers®, Mars®, Twix®, Celebrations® and Skittles®. We are looking for someone with prior marketing experience with a proven ability to lead teams to transform performance. You will have a chance to work at a family owned purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

What are we looking for?

Someone who can

  • Create and communicate clear and compelling strategies and turn these into action

  • Drives consistent results managing multiple priorities and projects

  • Ability to create strong collaborative relationships

  • Commercially astute

  • Digitally savvy

Mars Leadership Capabilities: Strategic Mindset, Business Insight, Drives Vision ,Drives Results, Manages Complexity & Communicates Effectively.

What will be your key responsibilities?

  • Develop and execute Celebrations® and AYR gifting 3 year strategy and plans for UKI, partnering with cross functional regional and local teams to deliver against targets.

  • Ensure activities including implementing range changes, innovation, brand activations & experiences are executed excellently in UKI working with cross functional team to deliver the targets

  • Lead Celebrations® brand and ensure excellent execution of the Celebrations® Communications plan (Paid, Earned, Shared & Owned strategy) partnering with internal experts and external agency teams.

What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates across the globe, all guided by The Five Principles.
  • Join a purpose driven family owned company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

We look forward to your application!

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
Learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

Working at Mars UK

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4,000 In the UK

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57:43

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