Marketing Manager

About Newly Weds Foods

Role overview

Strategy and customer engagement

• Identify and communicate insights to support strategy; understand competitive positioning and deliver opportunities that create a unique selling proposition.
• Develop execution plans with commercial and culinary teams to drive sales performance, business goals, and budget priorities.
• Anticipate customer needs, tailor customer experiences, and manage customer requirements promptly.
• Deliver category reviews, presentations, insight-led product positioning, marketing materials, and customer-facing or industry activities.

Insight and product pipeline

• Monitor consumer behavior, competitor and category activity, cuisine trends, and ingredient trends; capture and distil findings into useful formats.
• Combine market, consumer, competitor, and culinary insight into recommendations tailored to customers and end consumers.
• Share consumer insight internally and with customers through reporting, workshops, innovation sessions, presentations, and other activities.
• Work with agencies to optimise insight tools, strengthen insight capabilities, and assess return on investment.
• Work with Culinary and R&D on short- and long-term channel, category, and customer pipeline plans and product opportunities.

Growth and team contribution

• Track market performance, customer and competitor activity, product changes, product coverage, gaps, trends, and promotions.
• Use performance data and the 4P framework—product, price, place, and promotion—to recommend sales tactics and customer differentiation.
• Translate strategy into projects that meet business objectives and grow the Newly Weds Foods brand.
• Communicate priorities, manage workflow, collaborate with stakeholders, deliver effective outputs, and support personal, team, and functional development.

Recommended experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
• 4–8+ years’ experience in FMCG, B2B marketing, customer marketing, food service, food ingredients, manufacturing, or a related industry.
• Experience as a Marketing Manager or experienced Assistant Marketing Manager ready for progression.
• Customer-facing experience with food service chains or retailers and cross-functional work with Sales, Culinary, R&D, and customer teams.
• Ability to translate data, trends, insights, and customer needs into business recommendations and activation ideas.
• Strong communication, presentation, organisational, and collaborative skills; able to manage priorities in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
• Familiarity with industry data and agency platforms; European language skills are desirable.

Travel

• Travel in the UK and Europe may be required.

Schedule

• Stated working hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a one-hour lunch.

Additional information

• Benefits listed include Medicash, a 6% pension, a 2% discretionary bonus, and 25 days of holiday.