pladis Global
Commercial Operations Manager
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Commercial Operations Manager
What will this role achieve?
This role will be based in the Commercial Operations Function and is focused on developing our Youthful Snacking & Cake portfolios. Your line manager will be Head of Commercial Operations for the team. The role involves working closely with the NRM Manager in the team as well as Marketing and Customer to ensure our commercial calendar is as strong as possible and executed in market flawlessly. This role would be ideal for candidates that have gained experience within the commercial sales or marketing functions looking to take on that next step in their career.
What will be your key deliverables?
Commercial Operations’ objective is to work with all stakeholders to deliver profitable growth for pladis.
As such, you will:
- Work with the Customer & Marketing teams to ensure our commercial/brand plans are strong and fit to win by customer and channel, and finding solutions & opportunities to strengthen the plan focussing on gap closure where relevant
- Support in robusting the ammunition pipeline and readiness with Customer & Marketing functions
- Take ownership of planning & tracking of activity by account and channel against key innovation initiatives and marketing campaigns whilst ensuring that we hit key range windows to ensure we win in trade
- Ensure key customer promotions & execution is aligned to key timings such as ATL support
- Work with the customer team to ensure forecasts for activity and launches are populated on time and in full
- Collate key material for monthly GTM meetings, preparing and aligning key stakeholders on key topics and leading conversations on gap closure for key initiatives & campaigns in the sessions across sales fundamentals & key execution measures. You will also follow through with the actions post the monthly Commercial Meetings in these forums
- Manage key cross-functional internal relationships with stakeholders across Marketing, Customer, Commercialisation and Category Management
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Bring your experience
- Account Management or Category experience essential, ideally across a variety of channels
- Evidence of working with category and insights data
- Proactive approach to getting things done, often against time deadlines
- Continuously looking to improve with growth mindset
- Ability to analyse problems, create insight and propose innovative solutions
- Passion to work in partnership to achieve common goals
- Resilience when faced with setbacks and enthusiasm to achieve
- Ability to flex approach to ensure effective communication
- Motivation to drive career and seek experiences to support ambitions
- Passion and excitement for a career in the food industry
- Right to work in the UK
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Our Purpose
Bring happiness with every bite
It’s a purpose that every one of our colleagues, all around the world believes in. And while we’re all unique, we also share the same values.
Each of our values is important on its own. In combination they’re incredibly powerful.
Our values have deep personal meaning to us. They’re part of who we are and what we stand for as an employer.
Living our pladis values is a key part of success, look out for questions in your interview that link to these key pladis values.
Our Values
- Purpose led – We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite
- Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers
- Positive – We’re highly motivated optimistic, fearless, and we inspire each other to be better
- Resilient - We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward
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