Brand Manager
Ref: 2024-66485
Job Information
Division:
Elior Support Services
Advert Closing Date:
20/09/2024
Contractual Hours:Full-time
Location:London, EC2V 6JP
Working Environment
We are looking for a Brand Manager to join the team here at Elior.
You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Elior stays market-leading by creating and refreshing brands, concepts, and campaigns, while partnering with third parties to deliver innovative, commercially viable brand partnerships that drive new bids, sales, and margin growth in existing sites.
Job Description
Main Duties:
- Create and launch innovative brands and sub-brands from design, food, and marketing perspectives.
- Develop and manage brand partnerships, working with stakeholders to bring new brands, chefs, concepts, and products to market.
- Prepare marketing briefs for the food development team, including competitor analysis and trends.
- Deliver creative briefs to agencies for branding and point of sale.
- Manage relationships with creative, print, and research agencies, ensuring timely and budget-friendly execution.
- Create central campaigns to drive sales, coordinating with marketing managers for an annual plan.
- Oversee project management and implementation of concepts/campaigns across teams.
- Ensure proposals add commercial value, adjusting where needed.
- Maintain brand materials, including standards and matrices.
- Regularly monitor competitor activity for new opportunities.
- Keep internal and external collateral updated.
- Provide insights for sales and retention teams, supporting bids and presentations.
- Coordinate third-party photography for optimized customer-facing collateral.
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
Skills and Experience
Skills:
- Proven ability to use insights, branding, and marketing to drive brand performance and commercial results.
- Skilled in managing third-party relationships.
- Strong project and stakeholder management.
- Creative thinker with design direction expertise.
- Confident presenter, able to inspire teams with a shared vision.
- Knowledge of trends in food, beverage, or grocery industries.
- Experience with design and food briefs.
- Good understanding of operational site realities (equipment, space, layout).
- Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and brand/category management systems.
Elior are offering a competitive salary PLUS a 15% performance bonus.
Benefits
At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.
FREE Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches on office days, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.
Support Your Way of Life:
- Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
- Hybrid Working Model: Collaborate & innovate in the office three days a week while enjoying focused work-from-home days
- Holiday Allowance: Relax & recharge with 31 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
- Additional Holiday Purchase Option: Customise your time off by purchasing extra holidays
- Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
- Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work
Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:
- Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community
Supporting You Through Life’s Ups & Downs:
- Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits
Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:
- Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle to work scheme
Why it’s Great to Work for Us
Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK’s leading contract caterers, with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors including:
- Workplaces & Office Space
- Sporting Venues & Stadiums
- Attraction & Heritage Sites
- Public Sector & Defence
- Health, Care & Hospitals
- Schools, Colleges & Universities
Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.
That’s why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!
About Us
Our offices are based in London and Macclesfield, linked via good public transport routes. We offer comprehensive learning & development opportunities, and an engaging work atmosphere. They are sociable and open spaces with fantastic restaurant / catering facilities. Lunch subsidies / free refreshments and snacks are offered.
At Elior we're enriching lives, everywhere, every day. Feeding children in schools, loved ones in hospitals and care homes, sports fans in stadiums, visitors in heritage sites and teams in the workplace.
We are a multi-award-winning global player in the hospitality sector, founded in 1991 with over 105,000 colleagues worldwide, serving over 4 million guests every day. In the UK, our dedicated team serve our customers across 1200 locations.
Because of our success and stability, we can offer you excellent career opportunities where you will be nurtured and supported to fulfil your potential. We are renowned for looking after our people, with 87% of our colleagues feeling proud to work with us, and we are committed to delivering delicious and healthy food, which is ethically sourced.
And we're committed to looking after the planet, supporting the community, cutting food waste and supporting wellbeing. We've lots to shout about with our strong and united approach in tackling many important global sustainability issues.
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