Marketing Specialist

Key Responsibilities

As a Marketing Manager at Kerry, you will play a key role in driving business growth through strategic planning, customer engagement, and marketing activation initiatives.

Key Activities

Support the Annual Strategic Planning process by identifying business opportunities and priorities in close cooperation with the Sales Director.

Prepare detailed analysis and marketing activation plans for top customers, providing insights based on market, products, and brands analysis.

Execute customer engagements with prioritized Italian customers, face-to-face meetings, unless otherwise required by the customer.

Collaborate with Sales Director and R&D Lead to plan and execute Food marketing activation initiatives and innovation launches for South Europe.

Actively facilitate the sharing of knowledge, insights, success stories, and other information across teams within BU (South Europe) and with Europe marketing & strategy teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (essential) - Bachelor's or Master's degree in marketing, business, food science, or related field.

Minimum 4 years' experience in strategic or activation marketing, ideally in the food and beverage industry.

Italian first language, fluency in English.

Personal Competencies

Strong leadership and team management skills.

Strong organizational and planning capabilities.

Excellent project management capabilities, including management of multiple stakeholders.

Ability to understand business relevance of marketing activities.

Good communications and presentation skills, and talent for sharing information with relevant stakeholders.

Ability to quickly grasp and become proficient in new concepts, ideas, technologies, markets, tools, and ways of working.

Enthusiastic attitude towards effectively interacting with many different functions and serving as an active participant on a multinational, multi-functional team.

Good knowledge of quantitative and qualitative analysis methodologies, interpreting and presenting findings in a clear, concise manner, including creation and use of tables, charts, and graphics to summarize results.

A passion for product concepts ideation in Food and Beverage.

Travel: up to 30%.