Marketing Manager

About Kerry

Kerry Group’s UK & Ireland dairy related businesses includes Primary Dairy, Agribusiness and dairy related Consumer Foods business. With a revenue in excess of €1bn per year, it is one of the world’s leading dairy businesses. With our strong dairy heritage and deep-rooted connection to our 3,000 milk suppliers, right through to our portfolio of innovative and high-quality brands, the dairy business has a unique and compelling proposition for both consumers and our customers.

Our dairy business has a diversified portfolio of dairy, nutritional ingredients and market leading dairy brands and its vertically integrated dairy processing ensures the highest quality, sustainably produced 1bn litres of milk  for our dairy, nutritional ingredients and consumer foods business – a key consideration among some of our largest customers across the globe.

About the role

We are now recruiting a suitable candidate for the role of Marketing Manager for our Dairy Ingredients and Nutritional Ingredients business to help us realise our purpose of Reimagining Dairy. We are looking for a passionate B2B marketer, who has science or food based marketing experience, and who places the customer at the heart of everything that they do. It is an opportunity to join a fast paced dynamic team.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the successful development and delivery of the marketing plan and initiatives, containing clear strategies and tactics that will drive our business forward.
• Work closely with our business development and sales teams to ensure marketing plans and initiatives are fully aligned.
• Develop and deliver effective insight driven marketing collateral and partake in customer engagements.
• Lead business analysis projects to quantify our target markets, and inform our business.
• Lead marketing insights for the Strategic planning process, ensuring that the external market landscape is well understood and is informing our strategies.
• Support our R&D team to understand the market opportunity and customer needs to support new product development.
• Managing content, presence and interaction at key conferences, trade shows and scientific events.
• Support regular reporting of activities with impact for senior management team and key stakeholders.
• Staying up to date on the latest industry trends and practices and educate colleagues on these.

Qualifications and skills

• Minimum Qualification: Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Nutrition or Science
• 3-5  years relevant experience in the Food, Beverage or Pharma Industries
• Ideally B2B marketing experience
• Digital marketing experience
• Good Communicator with experience of working with multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrable success at anticipating customer needs, planning and actioning marketing projects to address these needs and measuring impact.
• Self-starter attitude and results driven.

Please note: We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where Kerry terms of business have not been signed. Additionally, we will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. This also applies to CVs or candidate profiles sent directly to any Kerry Hiring Managers.