Role: Head of Marketing – MAOAM and Commercial Initiatives

Location: HARIBO Castleford (hybrid working; three days in the office and two days working from home). Occasional travel may also be required

Working hours: 38 hours per week

Salary: Competitive (plus up to a 15% bonus) 

Position type: Permanent

We are on the hunt for a ‘Head of Marketing – MAOAM and Commercial Initiatives’ to come and join our happy world of HARIBO!

This is a fantastic opportunity to take a sweet seat within our HARIBO UK&I Marketing department reporting directly into our VP of Marketing. This role acts as one of two Leadership positions within our brand team space, whilst also sitting within our Marketing Leadership team alongside our Design Lead and Insights Lead.

This is an opportunity not to be missed as you could make a sugary wave within our impressive industry whilst delivering our company objectives. In role you will have the opportunity to manage and develop your team to deliver plans that delight our consumers to meet our growth targets… how impressive does that sound! You will also play a vital role in supporting and leading across our entire Marketing function and be a valued voice across all inter-dependent functions within our organisation.

How you’ll contribute to the mix:

Can you supply our essential ingredients?

Do you have extensive brand and marketing management experience within the FMCG space? We are looking for someone with both retail and commercially focused marketing experience… are you ready to take on your next challenge?

To drive sweet success, we are looking for a result driven marketeer who has a proven strategic thinking track record. It is essential that you’re able to understand and demonstrate best practice with a strong passion for marketing innovation. Not forgetting, it is important that you’re able to manage and interpret consumer and customer research confidently whilst also anticipating trends and turn insights into action.

Excellent verbal and written communication is vital, are you able to communicate and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders across a variety of functions with ease?

Storytelling is what we do best here at HARIBO! We are looking for someone with strong analytical capabilities with an emphasis on reading, interpreting and story telling data.

Organisation is also paramount to enable success within this role, it is important that you’re able to demonstrate strong planning, prioritisation and project management competencies whilst also working to and delivering on deadlines. We are looking for top-tier project management abilities with attention to detail and project timeline management focus.

The extra sweet stuff:

If our sweet insights in this role have got you craving developing your career with HARIBO, why not apply today to join the mix!