Trade Marketing Manager

We’re looking for a passionate and ambitious Trade Marketing Manager who can help to take our instore activation to the next level at PROPER SNACKS. This role will be crucial in helping to build visibility and accelerate growth for our Eat Real and PROPER brand portfolio. We are building the UK’s most exciting and fastest-growing major snacks company, whilst working together towards our mission to reinvent snacking as an act of positive well-being.

The Person:

As our Trade Marketing Manager, you’ll be the mastermind behind getting our snacks into the hands of hungry snackers all over the UK & key international markets including Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands. You will build imaginative trade campaigns that disrupt, and ensure that everything gets from A to B as efficiently as possible. You’ll be the driving force behind our brands’ presence in the retail market – making them unmissable across multiple channels in Grocery, Impulse, Foodservice and E-Commerce. You’ll take pride in doing things properly across trade shows, shippers, sampling kits, physical and digital POS, killer field sales kits, gifting and everything in between. You will break with category norms to build activations that are memorable, eye-catching and keep our customer coming back.

The Role:

This role will lead Trade Marketing across Grocery & Impulse channels as well as International markets. They will be the linchpin between Marketing, Creative and Commercial  to deliver best-in-class activation in stores, depots, trade shows and e-commerce.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be the linchpin between commercial, marketing, supply chain, finance and our creative studio, submitting clear and concise briefs into our world-class creative team to bring our brands to life in the market.
• Working your magic to collaborate with our retail partners across multiple sectors, boosting our presence across stores, warehouses, foodservice and online.
• Crafting brilliant trade marketing strategies and bringing them to life from eye-grabbing displays to attention-grabbing promotions, whilst using an entrepreneurial mindset to earn free media through retail partners wherever possible.
• Leading best-in-class trade show events that show off our brands and inspire our customers.
• Working closely with our third-party logistics partners to ensure that branded assets get to the right people at the right time.
• Keeping a tight grip on the purse strings and leading a monthly check-in with finance and commercial to ensure that we’re spending every £ for maximum impact.
• Diving into the numbers to prove impact and return on your investment to win support to do even more!
• Keeping the finger on the pulse of consumer trends and looking across other categories to bring fresh ideas to the snacks table that set us apart from the crowd.

Requirements:

• You've got a passion for snacks that's nothing short of legendary. You understand what makes our products irresistible.
• A strong track record in trade marketing or a relevant adjacent field (marketing, merchandising, commercial).
• A fantastic collaborator with superb people and soft skills, who is experienced at coordinating effectively with other business functions.
• An understanding of what exceptional merchandising looks like with an eye for detail. No crumpled packs here.
• A Builder mentality, being a pioneer and doing things for the first time, as well as finding a way when no-one else can.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Strong numerical and creative skills
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint).
• Experience working across different channels (eg. Grocery, Impulse, Foodservice, E-Commerce) preferred, but not essential.

About PS:

PROPER SNACKS is the home of PROPER and Eat Real. The UK’s fastest-growing major snacks company.

We’re a diverse team of builders, thinkers, creators and makers - based in London and Nuneaton and serving snackers across Europe. Our brilliant team are united by an insatiable curiosity and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit. At PROPER SNACKS, we don’t sit still. We scale fast, dream big and back our people to make stuff happen. Our values keep us grounded: Be builder. Dream bigger. Seriously fun. 

Whether you're joining us in London – where the brands are built, and big ideas take flight. Or in Nuneaton where magic happens in our factory and every bag gets made – you’ll be part of a team shaking up the snacking world. Get a flavour of what life is like at PROPER SNACKS here.

London Commercial Offices – Drummond Street – London –  NW1 3HP
Nuneaton Manufacturing Site – Townsend Dr – Nuneaton – CV11 6TJ

Our Approach:

PROPER and Eat Real is an equal opportunities employer and we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the recruitment or interview process.