Job Title: Ben & Jerry’s EU & ANZ Assistant Marketing Operations Manager
Location: B&J’s Datchet
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont by childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever since 2000. With an independent Board of Directors, Ben & Jerry’s advances its social mission while maintaining brand integrity. As one of Unilever’s iconic brands, with annual turnover exceeding €1 Billion, Ben & Jerry’s aims to double its business and expand its global impact. Our mission thrives on balancing growth with our grassroots and activist spirit, ensuring we remain a purpose-led organization with a connected 3-part mission.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent computer literacy, especially advanced MS Excell skills
• Experience with systems (eg. Blue, SAP, CRM, Prisma, SalesForce)
• Project management experience
• Relevant years’ experience in the business environment, preferably in position related to data and/or process management

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JOB PURPOSE

Today, Ben & Jerry’s is a successful business in Europe and one of the fastest growing brands within the total European Ice Cream portfolio. As a result, we are looking for a passionate marketing operations candidate to help deliver our ambition of doubling the size of the business while simultaneously becoming the most ethical food brand in the market. This dynamic role includes responsibility for over-seeing efficiencies in our operations and in turn, delivering savings that can be re-invested to drive even more impact through our values led sourcing commitment.
Are you passionate about data, data analysis, data management? Are you looking for an answer to all your questions in MS Excel? Do you love problem solving, productivity improvement, complexity reduction initiatives while keeping business growing mindset?
If the answer is 3 x YES, then this job is for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will be part of IC MKT Operations team, working very closely with B&J’s brand innovation team, managing European codes/artwork portfolio ~ 500 items.
• You will be the person, that knows your brand’s portfolio best. You will keep track of all products, factories, countries selling, changes in the portfolio, you will keep the library of product codes & approved AWs updated;
• You will facilitate brand’s “destination portfolio” – an annual portfolio review process leading discussion with mkt central, countries and cross-functional teams;
• You will prepare the brand for annual “AW season” – an E2E packaging change / update process from defining what is in scope to tracking every item deployment in the factory;
• You will arrange for product codes for your brand via Prisma tool;
• You will coordinate annual AW season for your brand, ensuring smooth, timely process in harmony with other brands. You will be working closely with AWE and marketing teams to deliver AW plan on time and in full.
• You will be the early adopter, user acceptance tester for any new system to be implemented in IC Europe
• When needed you will wear the “Artwork Production Specialist” hat supporting Artwork Excellence with artwork management in Blue.
• Administrate the codes, share with relevant functions.
• You will expand your skills and scope beyond European countries helping to set efficient operations for Asia and Australia.