All Posting Locations: London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Job Functions: Marketing

Date Published: June 25, 2024

Ref#: R-82589

ABOUT THE ROLE

Job Description

About the Position

We have an excellent opportunity available for a senior Head of Tomato Ketchup, with strong commercial and innovation experience to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The Head of Tomato Ketchup for Europe lies within the Europe and Pacific Developed Markets zone, reporting into the Director of Portfolio, Innovation and New Growth. You’ll be leading a vertical in a high performing, cross-functional team, responsible for defining the future of Ketchup. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders, external agencies and customers. The end-to-end ownership and delivery of innovation, sustainability, value creation projects and strategy will be your primary responsibility, as well as the responsibility for the performance and launch of the innovations in the markets, in partnership with the local BUs. You will be responsible for leading and delivering the pipeline with customers and consumers, doing the job of a category and brand owner and having shared P&L responsibility for new growth areas.

Head of Tomato Ketchup Europe
In brief, you will be responsible for;

Building the future of the platform for Kraft Heinz to deliver long-term strategy and breakthrough innovation to accelerate growth for the EPDM zone
Leading comms delivery (creative and media) for innovation, renovation and new adjacencies
Leading a team of motivated category & brand owners to deliver against your strategy
Leading a cross-functional team of supply managers, procurement managers, reporting dotted-line to you as well as R&D managers, insight managers and regulatory and FSQ managers
Leveraging insights to address consumer pain-points and drive consumer-first solutions
End-to-end business management, including shared P&L responsibility and project selling
Building relationships and collaboration with senior cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive engagement across extended business
Defining new governance structures and business processes to allow for agile innovation
Delivering sales with the support of our sales organization
Demand planning accountability with the support of demand planning team
Supply accountability with the support of collab managers and supply teams
Commercial strategy and support implementation

Qualifications

Hard Skills

Education: MSc required, MBA desired
Work Experience: 15+ years of FMCG experience (marketing, commercial, innovation)
Proven progression in marketing function and commercial setting
Track record of delivery innovation, new business models and disruptive innovation
Experience managing agency partners for creativity
Experience with external sales of ideas, projects and brand innovations
10+ years of managerial experience
Experience working in venture building or startup factory desired but not necessary
Language Knowledge: Business proficient English

Professional Attributes

Communication Skills
- At Kraft Heinz, you’ll easily be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore, it’s important you have excellent communication skills to deal with all kinds of different stakeholders.
Resilience
- You’re able to bounce back after a disappointment or setback, big or small. And always continue to move onward & upward.
Analytical
- We’re a very data-driven company. You know how to translate complex data into a simple solution with your analytical mindset.
Curiosity, positivity & enthusiasm
Drive growth
- Understanding of growth levers and 6Ps
- Marketing, commercial toolkit
- RGM
High pressure
- You don’t get easily stressed by pressure; on the opposite, a demanding and dynamic environment is what keeps you energized.
Result driven
- You don’t only focus on your own results, but always do what’s best for the company.

What we offer you

An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you;
A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market);
Permanent contract; for we believe in doing big bets on people;
Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know and we can set it in action!

Location(s)

London – The Shard

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.

MARKETING AT KRAFT HEINZ

THE
STRATEGIZERS

Our Marketing team are the voice of our consumers. Connecting the right people, to the right products, with the right messages and campaigns.

We’re the architects of category growth, making sure our brands are front and center — winning the battle for attention in the minds of people everywhere.

ABOUT US

Kraft Heinz is a global food company with a delicious heritage. Our emerging and iconic food and beverage brands deliver the best taste, fun, and quality to every table we touch. Worldwide.

We’re on a mission to disrupt not only our own business, but the global food industry. Consumer obsession and unexpected partnerships fuel our progress. As we drive innovation company-wide.

Our people are connected by a culture of ownership, agility and endless curiosity. We believe in being good humans — working to improve our company, communities, and planet.

We’re proud of where we’ve been and even more thrilled about where we’re headed as we nourish the world and lead the future of food.

WHY US

We grow our people to grow our business. We champion great people who bring ambition, curiosity, and high performance to the table as the guardians of our iconic and nostalgic brands.

Good isn’t good enough. We choose greatness every day by making bold decisions and challenging what’s ordinary. All while celebrating our wins – and failures – as we work together to transform the future of food.

GROW YOUR FULL
POTENTIAL

Be ambitious. Aim high. Lead like the owner of our business. Realize your passions and purpose, here at Kraft Heinz.

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