Brand Manager - Shopper & Trade Impact

Help make our brand impossible to miss

Make an impact where it matters

Ritter Sport Chocolate UK Ltd is a fast-growing, independent family-owned business with an ambitious plan for the UK & Ireland. We’re looking for a Brand Manager to help accelerate sustainable growth by making our brand seen, chosen and remembered across the shopper journey.

This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to turn strategy into action. From exciting NPD launches and standout displays to brilliant POS, merchandising and customer activations, you’ll bring ideas to life in front of shoppers and customers and see the impact of your work quickly.

What you’ll do

• Lead shopper and trade activation across retail channels, from the initial brief and big idea through to launch and in-store execution.
• Support NPD and brand launches, creating visibility and experiences that make shoppers stop, look and buy.
• Own shopper marketing and retailer media deployment, POS, merchandising, shippers and off-fixture displays from concept and artwork through production and into stores.
• Create compelling customer sell-in stories, trade materials and activation toolkits that help our sales teams make an impact.
• Work with agencies, suppliers and colleagues across Brand, Sales, Category and the wider business to deliver work that is on-brand, commercially smart and on time.
• Use shopper, customer and category insight to understand what works, improve ROI and find fresh ways to stand out in-store, online and throughout the shopper journey.

What you’ll bring

• Experience in brand, shopper, customer or trade marketing, ideally within FMCG.
• A track record of delivering shopper marketing or trade activation, including POS and merchandising.
• Strong project and campaign management skills: you’re organised, proactive and comfortable juggling priorities.
• An understanding of retail execution, production and implementation, with the confidence to own the detail from brief to delivery.
• Commercial thinking and the ability to turn insight into simple, effective activation.
• Great communication and influencing skills, plus the confidence to bring people with you.
• Curiosity, initiative, a sharp eye for detail and a collaborative, sleeves-rolled-up attitude.
• UK convenience or out-of-home experience, or experience in an HFSS brand environment, would be an advantage.

Ideally, you’ll be a Shopper Marketing or Trade Marketing Manager within FMCG.

However, we’re also open to:

• Shopper Marketing Executives ready for broader responsibility, with sufficient hands-on experience to deliver activation confidently and independently.
• Broader Brand Managers who have personally delivered shopper or trade marketing activity and want to build further in this area.
• Agency marketers with genuine shopper activation or trade marketing experience, who are keen to move in-house and bring the adaptability, curiosity and interest to contribute to the wider priorities of a supplier business.

Why Ritter Sport?

Join a successful independent family-owned business with the freedom to get stuck in, try new things and make a visible contribution. You’ll work across teams and channels, helping shape how shoppers experience Ritter Sport.

The details

Location- Leeds City Centre office, Yorkshire

Working pattern- Hybrid working

Salary- Attractive Salary + Benefits

Bonus- Individual and group profit share of up to 10% of salary

Benefits- Contributory pension with service uplifts; 25 days’ annual leave with service uplifts, plus bank holidays; private healthcare, gym, Grocery Aid and Perkbox memberships

Development- Annual internal and external development opportunities

Please note

Ritter Sport UK & Ireland has chosen to work exclusively with PT Executive on this search. We kindly ask other recruiters to respect that decision and do not contact Ritter Sport UK & Ireland in relation to the role. Thank you.