Senior PRGM Manager - London

Coyne & Associates is currently supporting Danone with a key appointment into its UKI Enterprise Strategy and Digital Transformation team.  We are looking to attract an ambitious and charismatic Senior PRGM Manager (Promotional Effectiveness), initially on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover a period of maternity.

Danone is embarking on an exciting global transformation to its strategy and organisational set up and they want you to be part of that journey!  As a leading food and drink company with a fast-growing health-focused portfolio, Danone has over 100 years of expertise.  Its brands include; Volvic, Evian, Harrogate, Activia, Alpro, Actimel, Nutricia, Aptamil and Cow & Gate.

Opportunity

You will be a key member of Enterprise Strategy and Digital Transformation team that sets the company direction for UKI. This role will have full promotional management responsibility across all Danone brands, providing insight through data analytics on how to maximise both efficiency and allocation of promotions as well as topline growth.

Promotional Effectiveness and Allocation

• Working in partnership with the commercial team to create value for Danone, customers and shoppers through optimizing the allocation and effectiveness of its promotions
• Step change return on investment of its promotional spend to create value for Danone and the trade, maximising the efficiency of its 150M€ promotional spend
• Building and maintaining a clear dashboard reflecting its key promotional targets, owning the topic internally
• Managing the promotional effectiveness tool and being the guarantor of the integrity of its promotional topics
• Empowering the customer teams to utilise optimisation tools to achieve and exceed their budgets through ensuring they run the optimal promo plan

Strategy planning

• Using macro and market trends to map out future opportunities for its promotional strategy ensuring every investment delivers for the business, and delivers against key brand KPIs and metrics
• Leading the creation and management of the promotional strategy & guidelines across all Danone brands, ensuring they are driving profitable growth for Danone and its retailers
• Providing guidelines for investment choices by channel/ brand to empower the customer/ marketing teams to maximise ROI on all promotions

About You

With broad multi-channel experience preferably in established FMCG and/or Retail, you will be fully at home translating complex, data-intense analytics into actionable recommendations and have experience of working effectively in a cross-functional team environment. You may have experience of commercial finance or consumer & customer marketing and undoubtedly bring in-depth understanding of various analytics tools (tableau, PowerBI, excel macros.

Danone offers a competitive package at this level including car allowance, double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance and product vouchers. You will also be entitled to opt into a range of flexible benefits which you can pick to suit your lifestyle.

For further information please contact Steve Coyne at Coyne & Associates on 0117 3018979 or email steve@coyne-associates.co.uk.