Activation Manager - Grocery

Are you looking for new challenges within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing? Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Activation Manager, Grocery, Uxbridge - Office Based

Location- Uxbridge

Contract - 14 Months secondment

What you become part of:

Soft drinks is an exciting, fast paced and always evolving category. At CCEP we already have some of the biggest brands in soft drinks and we continue to bring new brands and innovation to market offering choice and value to shoppers and our customers. The Customer Activation team are key to driving the brand portfolio through best in class activation in stores and online.

Understanding the brand objectives and shopper insights enables our Activation Managers to identify the right solution to grow penetration, frequency, or spend per trip as required. Keeping the budget under control and assigning spend to the right brands, packs and moments is key to ensuring we deliver the plan to maximise ROI and optimise growth.

Customer Activation Managers are ultimately accountable for defining and delivering the 'end to end' shopper activation within our Customers. Also working collaboratively with other Commercial Development teams, Sales, The Coca-Cola Company and of course our Customers is key to delivering great execution.

What to expect:

• You would understand the shopper barriers & triggers to purchase and CCEP activation priorities within your environment/customers as well as the key trends and competitor landscape. You will share this knowledge directly with key customers and indirectly through sales teams
• You will work collaboratively with the FS and National sales teams for your customer to activate all of the relevant shopper and brand strategies to meet the defined ABP metrics
• You will understand the commercial implications of decisions in order to make the right judgements to unlock best in class activation ensuring activation is aligned to Commercial priorities
• You will manage and prioritise TME spend within your customer ensuring spend is within allocated budgets and investments are delivering ROI
• You will work closely with our franchisors to execute relevant shopper / brand moments and ensure national campaigns are suitable for your customer to avoid customisation where reasonable for National campaigns (e.g. Premier League)
• For any relevant 'beacon customers' for KO brands within your environment, you will work with the Brand Activation Team to create tailored activation plans to drive greater conversion and customer preference
• You will become your customers day to day contact for Marketing queries or recommendations
• You will represent your customer at any relevant internal meetings or external forums (industry conferences)

Skills & Essentials:

To be successful in this role you need to demonstrate excellent influencing & planning skills; the ability to problem solve with creativity & agility; budgeting control; analytical and data processing; great communication (both verbal and written), and be confident in communicating with key stakeholders and customers. Experience gained from working within a customer facing role in Shopper Marketing, Sales, or Category Development is preferred.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) - a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world's most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we've got some way to go, but we'll get there with the support of our people. It's them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it's like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that's true for you - please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.