Marketing Programme Manager

JDE Peet's; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading coffee company in the UK seeks a Marketing Programme Manager to drive marketing excellence. This role involves leading key commercial processes, coordinating brand activation, and managing cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates will have FMCG experience, strong collaboration skills, and a Project Management qualification.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years P2M experience in FMCG is essential.
• Marketing experience is desirable.
• Natural problem solver with a 'can do' attitude.

Responsibilities

• Lead UK/I integrated brand planning process and ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Facilitate decision-making and manage agendas for key marketing forums.
• Line manage one direct report to support brand teams.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Commercial acumen

Education

Project Management Qualification

Marketing, Business, or Management degree

Job description

Company Description

It’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee! It plays such an important role in the lives of consumers, from your morning americano to help you get started, to an indulgent afternoon latte treat for a job well done, or experimenting with the latest coffee shop drink trends at home, like Dubai chocolate latte with friends. It’s no wonder more cups of coffee are consumed each year than tea!

This vacancy plays a crucial role in helping us achieve our mission – to become the most chosen coffee company, providing a coffee for every cup across the UK & Ireland. We are looking for a talented, passionate, and highly organized Programme Manager to support our associates in delivering marketing excellence by leading critical end-to-end processes and key forums.

Job Description

In this Marketing Programme Manager role, you will lead key commercial processes and forums to help deliver marketing excellence and achieve our commercial goals throughout the year.

You will support the marketing team in activating their brand plans by leading Product to Market, Stage Gate, Brand Planning, and Activation forums and processes end-to-end across brands and channels (retail & out of home). Your role will involve maximizing input excellence at each stage, facilitating critical decision-making, and creating the regular cadence and rhythm required of key forums and processes in this fast-paced environment.

As part of the Marketing Leadership Team and reporting directly to the Marketing Director, this is a highly visible and critical role that requires excellence in programme management. You will support brand teams and key cross-functional partners and line manage, coach, and develop one direct report, contributing to marketing excellence at JDE Peets.

Responsibilities

1. Lead the UK/I integrated brand planning process, ensuring cross-functional alignment and readiness for our annual conference.
2. Coordinate the timely submission of UK/I brand planning inputs for the global brand planning calendar and 36-month planning process.
3. Co-lead the monthly Activation Forum, coordinating content calendars for marketing inputs and presenters from Category, Shopper, and Sales teams.
4. Lead the first step of the monthly commercial process (M1), ensuring alignment of brand strategies and sufficient plans to meet in-year and VCP targets, including managing agendas, pre-reads, minutes, and performance tracking.
5. Lead the Stage Gate process for UK & Ireland, coordinating agendas, pre-reads, minutes, and facilitating approval of brand activation plans, managing an NPD tracker to monitor performance against AOP targets.
6. Chair the Product to Market monthly forum, ensuring timely delivery of innovation and renovation brand plans and activations.
7. Support marketing and finance teams in managing advertising and promotional expenditure.
8. Assist the Marketing Director in building the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), coordinating inputs, and partnering with brand and finance teams for NPD forecasts.
9. Coordinate the Marketing Team meeting agenda, including quarterly offsites, with support from MLT to formalize key topics for marketing excellence.
10. Line manage one direct report, aligning priorities and maximizing support within brand teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years P2M experience in FMCG is essential.
• Marketing experience is desirable.
• Strong relationship-building and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Good commercial acumen, highly autonomous, a natural problem solver, with a “can do” attitude.

Nice to Have

• Experience in Brand Management, Innovation, Sales, or Category Management.

Education

• Project Management Qualification is essential; a Marketing, Business, or Management degree is desirable.