9 months fixed term contract to start early 2024

Huddersfield (HYBRID WORKING)

About the Company:

Thornton & Ross are one of the UK's fastest-growing, leading producers of household pharmaceutical products & own some of the country's most loved brands such as Covonia® , Hedrin® , Cetraben® as well as the leading disinfectant Zoflora® . Many people in the UK will have a product from Thornton & Ross somewhere at home. We are also a trusted & reliable provider of prescription products, including emollients, bone health products & generics to the NHS with 100 years’ heritage behind us.

About the Brand:

Zoflora is the largest consumer brand in the Thornton & Ross portfolio. Since its launch in 1922, Zoflora has expanded its product portfolio offering from Concentrated Disinfectant (the number 1 brand in the UK) to a multiformat perfumer developed fragranced cleaning brand.

A key part of the Zoflora growth strategy is to grow household penetration of the brand within the UK. There is significant investment in media to support this ambition, with multi-media campaign using the brand’s beautiful and distinctive creative that centres around emotionally engaging TV and digital communications, alongside strong social media, PR and influencer campaigns.

About the Role:

Join this dynamic team and brand (it’s the fastest growing UK cleaning brand in 2023!) where you’ll have responsibility for leading NPD projects from end to end working with the consumer insights department to create a strong sales story. You’ll need well developed stakeholder management skills as you’ll be collaborating cross functionally with the customer senior brand manager, comms senior brand manager and the sales team to ensure launches deliver commercial excellence. Monitoring fragrance trends in the marketplace, you’ll help to identify gaps in the range and create clear briefs with these in mind (fine fragrance experience would be beneficial).

This busy role will suit an existing Brand Manager or a high performing Assistant Brand Manager who is ready to take their next career step.

About You:

At STADA we talk about diversity as Uniqueness. Everyone is unique and we recognise our differences as a strength. Our values Entrepreneurship, Integrity, Agility and One STADA ensure our uniqueness thrives, enabling us to care for people’s health as a trusted partner. Empower your Uniqueness, bring your whole self to STADA.

If you’re keen to add value, see results, and have the can-do spirit that’s spearheading our success, bring those qualities, with the following skills and qualifications:

• Experience of leading NPD projects to drive incremental brand growth from initial identification of market opportunity through to delivery of launches against timed milestones.
• A talented marketer, with exposure to the full marketing mix across both classical and digital activation: mass media; content marketing; and social media marketing. Experience in product marketing would be beneficial.
• Experience of trade marketing /selling to UK retailers (in conjunction with Key Account Sales teams).
• Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills (able to balance day to day requirements with project deadlines).
• Experience of partnering and effectively managing agencies.
• Strong commercial acumen with good numeracy and analytical skills.
• Well-developed communication and influencing skills both with internal and external stakeholders.
• Creative thinker with the ability to work on own initiative

What’s in it for you?

• Contract completion bonus
• Hybrid working options - our stunning head office is in a recently redeveloped, modern canal side mill setting in Slaithwaite, Huddersfield
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days leave.
• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Annual bonus scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme

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