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About the Role

This role combines consumer marketing and commercial skills, with success measured by the business value delivered by innovations. The core of the role is to create, manage, and execute innovation from end-to-end, starting with generating insights, developing concepts, and bringing validated concepts to reality, including launch plans. This is a full end-to-end role from strategy to execution, requiring leadership of cross-functional teams, collaboration, strategic thinking, and creativity. Post-launch, the role involves managing projects through the incubation period, creating support plans, and influencing stakeholders to maintain focus and momentum.

Responsibilities

Help build a healthy pipeline of ideas grounded in consumer insight by proactively understanding and identifying latest technologies and consumer trends and their application to the portfolio.
Lead workshops and engage agency partners to create concepts for validation, undertaking qualitative and quantitative research to identify concepts with consumer appeal at scale.
Translate blue-sky and white space concepts into commercially viable pipelines.
Manage innovation projects through AG Barr’s innovation process, requiring excellence in cross-functional working and the ability to bring teams together to drive solutions towards a common goal.
Develop the proposition for each new launch and brief agencies to deliver brand/product identity and positioning that meets these propositions.
Work closely with R&D, packaging, and design agencies to create products that deliver against the proposition.
Create and execute successful marketing plans to support the launch of new brands and products across the full marketing mix.
In conjunction with the commercial team, develop robust business cases for new launches based on clear and well-founded assumptions, to deliver a 3-year P&L that will provide the business with targets for all innovation launches.

Requirements

Ideally degree educated with significant experience in industry across innovation or marketing functions.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment.
Strong brand management experience within FMCG.
Experience within soft drink and/or alcoholic beverage categories is welcomed.
Ability to create compelling consumer insights from diverse sources.
Creative thinker with experience in a branded goods marketing role, including branded New Product Development.
Strong FMCG innovation and ideation experience.
Evidence of having worked at the front end of innovation with a proven track record of creating winning ideas grounded in consumer insight.
Evidence of managing multiple and often complex projects/priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects at once and navigate ambiguity.
Sufficient process and research knowledge to generate and validate new concepts and turn them into workable business solutions.
Strong leadership, communication skills, and influencing skills.
Commercially astute and able to effectively analyze large volumes of data into insights and actionable recommendations.
Previous experience managing internal and external partners.
Demonstrate AG Barr behaviours: Being Honest, Accountable, Connected, and Brave.

Skills

Consumer marketing
Commercial skills
Innovation management
Consumer insight generation
Concept development
Launch planning
Cross-functional team leadership
Collaboration
Strategic thinking
Creativity
Project management
Marketing plan development
Business case development
Data analysis
Brand management
New Product Development (NPD)
Ideation
Research knowledge
Leadership
Communication
Influencing
Commercial acumen

Location

Hybrid working from Cumbernauld, Middlebrook, Milton Keynes, Farringdon

Work Type

Hybrid
Permanent
Full-time

Experience Level

Significant experience in industry across innovation or marketing functions
Strong brand management experience within FMCG
Strong FMCG innovation and ideation experience
Experience within soft drink and or alcoholic beverage categories welcomed

Education Level

Degree educated

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary
Annual salary review

Benefits

Uncapped bonus linked to business performance
Defined contribution Pension
Up to 34 days holiday (depending on shift pattern)
Flexible holiday trading
Flexible cash pot to spend on benefits
Healthcare Cash Plan
Flexible benefits e.g. discounts & cashbacks, gym memberships, technology purchases etc
Life assurance
Save as you earn scheme
Staff sales discount
Free AG Barr products throughout your working day and staff sales
Ongoing professional development and access to Learning and Development programmes and content

About the Company

Employing around 850 people across the UK, AG Barr is a responsible business that takes care of its people, values diversity, gives back to its communities, and works to minimize its environmental impact.
For 150 years, AG Barr has been building great brands and is home to some of the nation's favourite flavours, including IRN-BRU, RUBICON, Boost, FUNKIN, and MOMA.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health or mental health condition.
While we have highlighted our ideal requirements for this role, we are realistic that the successful candidate probably won't meet every single requirement in this advert, but we are big advocates of people growing in role. So even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to submit an application - you may be just what we are looking for!