The Simmance Partnership Limited
Retailer Brand Business Development Manager
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Retailer Brand Business Development Manager
Hybrid | FMCG | Branded Food Manufacturing
Ready to shape the future of one of the UK's biggest retailer brand businesses?
Our client is a £700m UK subsidiary of a global branded food business with revenues exceeding £20bn. Their products are found in millions of homes every day, and behind that success is a business committed to innovation, commercial excellence and building long-term partnerships with the UK's leading retailers.
As the business continues to invest in its Retailer Brand division, we're looking for an exceptional Retailer Brand Business Development Manager helping drive ambitious growth plans across one of the company's most exciting business units.
It's a highly commercial, cross-functional position where you'll influence strategy, drive major projects, analyse performance, coordinate complex initiatives and help shape the future direction of the Retailer Brand business.
Part of the commercial engine within this new strategic business unit you’ll turn strategy into action by:
- Supporting the development and delivery of the Retailer Brand growth strategy
- Leading high-profile commercial and innovation projects from concept through to delivery
- Turning market, customer and category data into meaningful commercial insight
- Building compelling business cases and presentations for senior stakeholders
- Managing relationships with key retailer customers and supporting strategic customer meetings
- Working cross-functionally across Sales, Marketing, Category, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations and Product Development
- Driving operational excellence through improved processes, reporting, planning and commercial discipline
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We're looking for someone who...
- Thrives in a fast-moving FMCG environment and enjoys bringing structure to complexity.
- You'll probably already have experience within Category, Sales, Marketing, Product Development or Commercial Strategy and understand retailer brand, manufacturing and commercial delivery.
You:
- A natural planner who brings order and structure wherever they go
- Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
- Commercially curious and confident working with numbers, data and P&Ls
- Adaptable, resilient and comfortable navigating ambiguity
- Someone with an outstanding work ethic who genuinely enjoys delivering results
- Hungry to learn, develop and continuously improve
- High energy with the drive to make things happen
- Confident enough to influence senior stakeholders whilst remaining collaborative
- Naturally strong in building relationships, with exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
- Personally accountable, proactive and someone who takes ownership rather than waits to be asked
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Experience:
- FMCG experience within retailer brand, commercial, category, marketing or product development
- Understanding of manufacturing, product development, Stage Gate, S&OP and product costings
- Experience managing multiple cross-functional projects
- Strong commercial and analytical capability with confidence interpreting financial and market data
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment where priorities regularly change
If you're commercially minded, thrive on variety, enjoy solving problems and want a role where you can genuinely make an impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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