Marketing Head - Food Service

About Kerry

About the role

Food Service sits as a key strategic growth platform for Kerry Group, significantly impacting our business and helping us deliver our strategy and vision. You will be responsible for driving growth through the marketing deliverables across India Subcontinent whilst working in alignment with the Food Services General Manager (GM), and the wider Food Service commercial team.

This role will develop relevant and proactive insights, Lead marketing initiatives and execute the foodservice business plan across India Subcontinent, focusing on our Da Vinci Gourmet (DVG) brand.
You will partner with the teams to ensure best in class customer engagement. You will be adept at harvesting insights to create a clearly defined go-to-market plan aligned to business strategy and growth opportunities.

Key responsibilities

Strategy/ Opportunity management / Customer Management:

• Own the develop and execute a localized India Subcontinent foodservice plan for the region
• Support with execution of Best-in-class customer engagement experience
• Support the opportunity pipeline for both new and existing customers, aligning and prioritizing to strategic focus and plans.
• Review success of marketing activation plans for FS across India Subcontinent against key KPIs.
• Drive demand creation and performance aligned to account plans.

Consumer Insights :

• Stay well-informed of changes in competitive landscape and to enable design differentiated strategies and positioning
• Develop and own a comprehensive understanding of current channel / dynamics, consumer trends, key customers positions and strategies, etc.
• Partner with regional insights team to deliver compelling proprietary market and consumer insights that drive and support channel / Sub-Region strategic commercial decisions
• Use data to assess success of previous campaigns/ initiatives and recommend corrective action where necessary

Qualifications and skills

• Related Bachelor’s Degree & strong passion for marketing and food/food technology
• Min 12 years of experience in either FMCG/ Food & Beverage marketing/ product management in a multi-national company environment
• Excellent presentation and communications skills
• Strong analytical skills analyzing consumer / marketing / sales data - Ability to anticipate customer (internal and external) needs
• Strong project time management skills; ability to manage multiple details and deadlines in a matrix organizations
• Strong consulting and facilitation skills (diplomatic and collaborative).
• High energy, can-do approach, high level of emotional intelligence
• A passion for actively engaging across the business, building partnerships based on trust and integrity.