Senior Brand Manager

Orkla Foods Sverige AB · Full-time

Malmö, Sweden

Company description: Orkla Foods Sverige manufactures food and beverages in Sweden with care and consideration for people, the environment, and the land. We are a local community player that with our 1500 employees makes a difference and contributes to a more sustainable and healthy everyday life. Approximately 90 percent of the food and beverages we sell in Sweden are manufactured locally at one of our 7 facilities in Sweden. Job description: Are you Orkla Foods Sverige's new Senior Brand Manager? Do you want the chance to work with some of Sweden's most iconic brands and be part of the journey to shape and develop these for the future? We are now seeking a Senior Brand Manager who wants to help develop our brands with individual responsibility for either your own brand and/or your own categories and segments. About the role As a Senior Brand Manager, you are an important part of driving the strategic development of the brand. You are responsible for ensuring the best consumer insights and sharp analyses that form the basis for creating long-term plans, strategies, innovations, and developing the product portfolio for your own categories/segments. Here you get the opportunity to implement the plans and are responsible for monitoring progress against targets and correcting deviations. The work spans the entire value chain where you will have active responsibility for improving profitability, reducing costs, and decreasing complexity to increase competitiveness. The role is very business-oriented and you work closely with the market, sales, innovation, finance, production, and customers. You will report to the Marketing and Category Manager. We offer you a responsibility area with interesting variety in tasks and significant scope for your own initiatives. The tasks are performed in close collaboration with other functions, which requires good organizational skills, teamwork ability, and an understanding of the entire business. Your attitude and values align with ours; you are courageous, inspiring, and reliable. What you will have the opportunity to work with • Develop long-term brand and category strategies, market plans, and activities at strategic and tactical levels with clear grounding in analysis of relevant market data, business data, trends, consumer insights, and external environment data. • Implement and follow up on plans and strategies within your responsibility area and proactively propose changes to the plan to ensure target achievement. • Assortment development, pricing strategies, and optimization of existing assortments by proactively evaluating, proposing, and implementing changes to the product portfolio to optimize profitability and sales. • Create conditions for cross-functional collaboration to achieve targets for complexity and cost reductions as well as profitability improvements. • Participate in creating tactical 4P-plans for the assortment in close collaboration with the sales department. • Participate in developing media plans, creative communication, and packaging design. Profile description: Who are you? We are looking for someone with a degree in business administration/economics master's degree or similar education such as industrial economics, business management, or statistics/data analysis. To succeed in the role, we see that you ideally have at least 4-5 years of professional experience as a senior brand manager/brand manager or similar role such as category management, business analyst, insight manager, or product manager within retail/e-commerce. You are passionate about building strong brand strategies and plans with clear grounding in both data analysis and consumer insights. As a person, you are engaged and goal-oriented with high focus on achieving measurable results and monitoring KPIs. Others would describe you as a team player, with both strategic and analytical abilities, and skilled at thinking innovatively. You enjoy challenges and are not afraid of complexity. To succeed in the role, we see that you are action-oriented, can independently implement and act on set plans, and take your own initiatives. We offer: Information and application Does this sound like an exciting challenge? Apply as soon as possible but no later than 30/8 via our website www.orklafoods.se or recommend someone you think would be a good fit for the position! All applications are treated confidentially, so don't delay your application. If you have specific questions that are important for you to make a decision about applying, you are warmly welcome to contact Talent Acquisition Partners at [email protected]. Unfortunately, we have limited ability to answer questions during the vacation period. We look forward to receiving your application and having you become part of our team!