C&C Group plc is a premium drinks company which owns, manufactures, markets and distributes a unique portfolio of beer and cider brands in its home markets and across the globe.
You probably know us best from brands like Bulmers, Magners and Tennent's.
About the Role Working across multiple teams and regions, the Marketing Operations Assistant will support the Head of Marketing Operations to ensure all processes relating to the marketing activation of the C&C brand portfolio (owned, 3rd party agency, equity) allow us to deliver our activity efficiently, effectively and enable delivery of our agreed brand activation plans.
Specifically, this person will support the Brand, NPD (new product development) & Activity Planning processes, ensuring there are strong processes and project management in place to support the delivery of our plans.
The role holder will assist the Head of Marketing Operations in implementing the Marketing Operating Model, defining our processes and governance to enable a strong marketing activity programme to be developed, delivered and evaluated with clear connections and collaboration with the other functions needed to make that happen – Commercial, Finance, and Operations.
This person will also help manage the key processes and activities within an NPD stage gate process which will provide structure and governance for the development of an NPD pipeline which is transparent, efficient, allows commercially rigorous decisions to be made and linked in with the wider business strategy.
The role demands a person with a transparent open attitude and a collaborative winning spirit.
This person will be happy to get 'stuck in' and help develop and implement new processes and drive impact quickly.
Super organized, loves a good bit of process & governance, and can interact with all levels and in all functions of the business.
Key Accountabilities Support the annual Brand Planning process, ensuring the brand planning process runs smoothly, on time, and hits all its key contact points with other teams, especially channel marketing & commercial finance.
Assist the Head of Marketing Operations to develop a best-in-class operating model for C&C's brand portfolio and marketing activity across all touchpoints.
Support the execution of the annual Marketing Activity programme, helping to deliver a process which takes activities from proposal to approval, implementation and evaluation which is transparent, efficient & effective.
Work with the Head of Marketing Operations and Brand / Channel teams to manage effective post-launch initiative tracking processes to trigger Sales and Marketing remedial action and optimize success now and in the future.
Help to develop better and more efficient ways of working across Marketing, mapping our processes and highlighting areas of improvement.
Track NPD projects, communicating key actions for Stage Gates to project leaders, and promptly sharing information about where projects are facing barriers, or are at risk of delay.
Experience and Qualifications Attitude and learning agility – key to success.
Experience in a previous marketing/project management role.
Experience of successfully leading people within a complex business structure.
Food/Drinks industry experience a bonus.
About Us Operating through the Matthew Clark, Bibendum, Tennent's and Bulmers Ireland brands, the Group has a market leading range, scale and reach including an intimate understanding of the markets it serves.
From grass to glass, and everything in between, we grow, brew, manufacture, market, and deliver some of the world's favourite drinks.
C&C Group's portfolio of owned/exclusive brands include: Bulmers, the leading Irish cider brand; Tennent's, the leading Scottish beer brand; Magners the premium international cider brand; as well as a range of fast-growing, premium and craft ciders and beers, such as Heverlee, Menabrea, Five Lamps and Orchard Pig.
We seek to champion and embed sustainability in everything that we do at C&C.
While delivering joy to customers, we always shine a light on people and the planet.
We have a clear ESG vision delivering to a better world.
We respect, support, and develop all our people to be their best, with a focus on results by creating a culture of winning together.
We also recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job.
If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying.
Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is key to delivering on our mission.
Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.
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