STRATEGY AND PLANNING MANAGER : Distribution Partner

This role is central to the development of the Red Bull brand growth ambitions within the Irish market. The Strategy and Planning Manager will co-ordinate and project manage all trade-led marketing activities. They are responsible for the development and coordination of the sales, trade marketing & insights teams, to deliver the Red Bull growth strategy whilst maintaining the brand personality & values. The successful candidate will bring strong leadership skills to deliver all means of communication (internal, trade & shopper), coordinate effectively between marketing and sales & oversee the POS development and implementation. They will work cross functionally to lead the execution of the market plan via Key Accounts and Field Sales teams, champion sales analysis to generate insight and deliver Category Management projects.RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with :

Support the Off Premise Manager to create the strategic vision for the short- and long-term growth in the market.

Translating the global business strategy to the local market, and ensuring execution of same.

Develop trade marketing strategies, utilizing trade and marketing experience to recommend best trade-led activities.

Recommend and support trade activity proposals with commercial backing, pushing the brand guidelines whilst protecting the brand image.

Create and develop all channels of communication that contribute to the timely execution of Red Bull initiatives at internal, trade or shopper level.

Ownership of internal KPIs to support brand growth strategy.

Identify, develop, and implement necessary processes to enhance sales business performance within areas of :

Revenue Growth Management

Insights - ensuring the latest market trends and data are used to quantify and prioritise both challenges and opportunities with a growth mindset.

Sales development analysis (by customer, by channel, by distribution point, etc.) to develop and measure specific strategies and KPIs.

Educate, orientate, and utilize the brand team to deliver through the line activity in store.

Ensure Sales and Marketing are working hand in hand.

Delivering Perfect Store across the Off Premise customer base ensuring Red Bull looks and acts like Number 1 in store.

Support the alignment across customers and channels for all trade marketing activities.

Oversee Category Management projects.

Ensure national team is regarded as ‘best in class’ by international team.

Manage all the international requests of data sharing and international tool’s local implementation.

Implementation of global tools (for in-store material creation, for elaboration of planograms, for evaluation of promotion efficiency…).

• The candidate for the role should ideally have minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role
• Be hard-working, passionate and a reliable team player, with a growth mindset.
• Have clear understanding of markets, sales & distribution, competitor activity, consumer & shopper behavior, category management & business insights in FMCG context
• Have strong analytical ability and commercial acumen to understand financial statements and market trends
• Be strategic thinking and be able to lead the sales strategy
• University Degree (business, marketing or similar)
• Fluent in written and spoken English

STRATEGY AND PLANNING MANAGER : Distribution Partner

Red Bull

Giving wiiings to people and ideas since 1987

In the 1980s Dietrich Mateschitz developed a formula known as the Red Bull Energy Drink. This was not only the launch of a completely new product, in fact it was the birth of a totally new product category.

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Since the early days of Red Bull, an entrepreneurial mindset has always guided our approach to work and the environment we create :

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