Commercial Operations Executive

Location

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you looking to build a career in category operations at a large FMCG organisation?

Do you want to be involved in diverse projects with the opportunity grow and learn?

At Britvic we’re on a journey to become the most dynamic soft drinks company. As one of the UK’s leading players in the FMCG market we pride ourselves on setting high standards, being courageous and pushing ourselves to think outside the bottle.  

We offer consumers a range of family favourite and global premium brands such as Robinsons, Tango, J2O, R. White’s & London Essence. We exist to help people enjoy life’s everyday moments.

About the Role:

Our Business Operations Executive will be a part of the commercial team, providing the chance to gain hands-on experience in both operations and category-related activities. This unique role involves actively participating in Strategy Planning and Execution projects,  focused on internal engagement, senior stakeholder engagement and communication, analysing sales performance data for presentation to stakeholders, assessing category performance, and assisting in the development of sales support.

This role is central to our planning and execution of commercial initiatives, therefore strong links will be required cross-functionally with the Sales team, Category Strategy, Business Performance Insights,  Brand Marketing & Shopper Marketing with the chance to build great relationships.

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a high achieving graduate and/or recent graduate with a few years experience under the belt, with expertise in customer operations, category management, or hospitality/FMCG, offering exposure to both internal operations and external category dynamics with the potential to establish a rewarding career with lots of learning and growth.

To be succesful you will need an inquisitive mind and be a strong self-starter, an ambitous individual who wants to build a career in business or category operations across a plethora of projects. 

Key Responsibilities:

1. Help execute future growth opportunities within the channel
2. Help execute close working relationship with cross functional partners including brand teams, customer management & shopper strategy 
3. Support creation and implementation of channel AOP linking back to brand outcomes required
4. Help execute customer base through understanding of key customer strategies to support us in improving our brand visibility and performance
5. Help execute outlet-level opportunities by channel
6. Help execute relevant toolkits to bring AOP (annual operating plans) to life & cascade to teams
7. Help execute monthly performance cycle tracking against AOP big rocks supporting the commercial team on their in year delivery
8. Build close working relationships with key customers’ buying and insights teams, expanding Britvic Contact strategy 
9. Support Customer Management team through delivery of inspirational brand execution selling in key customer meetings and engagement days

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

1. Commercial FMCG experience is ideal.
2. Experience of category management & first-hand experience of managing customer relationships is ideal
3. Shopper / Customer Marketing &/or commercial experience also valued
4. Experienced in using multiple data sources such as IRI, CGA, CGA Brand Track, Kantar Alcovision, MCA, Mintel to build a compelling trade story
5. Strategic thinker able to develop clear vision for the category within the channel / customer
6. Strong commercial skills across a range of channels/companies
7. Strong communicator (written & presented) with good story telling & facilitation skills
8. Demonstrable capability of applying category management thinking
9. Good understanding of the latest consumer / shopper / market insight techniques 

We believe we are stronger together and that’s why we’re committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees. We know that by building a truly inclusive environment where everyone feels celebrated, safe and respected - diversity and wellbeing will naturally thrive

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