Our people are the heart of our business. As our greatest asset, they make Musgrave a great place to work and in return we aim to be the very best place to work, grow and thrive. We have an exciting opportunity for an Own Brand & Innovation Manager to join our Trading Team.
Reporting to the Category Manager, the Brand & Innovation Manager will work with the Category, Sales and Marketing teams to devise and implement an appropriate own brand strategy for our Wholesale division. Driving our ambition to be a World Class Food & Beverage business, they will anticipate food trends and work with the trading team to deliver trends ahead of our competitors.

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & EDUCATION

• Experience of building and delivering plans aligned to a strategy
• Experience working in a fast-moving and pressured environment and can manage projects on time and to budget/Forecast
• Strong analytical and numerical capabilities and can plan and make recommendations based on data and insight
• Experience in buying or trading positions
• Good negotiator, able to satisfy varying needs in the face of conflicting demands
• Strong planning and prioritizing skills to deliver plans to deadline
• High level of customer focus and can work collaboratively with others
• Ability to anticipate next steps and future risks and opportunities within your area, taking actions to address them in the absence of a given structure
• Effective communicator and can build trust to execute an agenda

• Oversee the commercial planning for all own brand products.
• Liaise with our Group product development team on a regular basis to ensure that our OB plans are clearly communicated, managed and prioritised.
• Liaise with our QA team to ensure all supplier and product audits are compliant.
• Work with Trading & Marketing teams to design and redesign OB packaging.
• Monitor and report on financial and operational performance of own brand and initiate corrective actions as appropriate to ensure business targets are achieved.
• Deliver Trend and Innovation forums to share insights on across Trading, Sales & Operations teams
• Review Competitor in ROI/UK to monitor catering & retail trends to develop plans around innovation and NPD
• Support our customer trade events & presentations
• Plan & manage our Greenshoots initiative, supporting smaller Irish suppliers to the Food Service and Retail markets.