Location
HQ - Blagdon
Advertising Salary
£51,030 - £62,370 per annum
Advert Closing Date
06 Jun 2025

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, we’re passionate about nurturing and nourishing people and the planet by making great food the right way, forever. 
 
As the Marketing Operations Manager you will play a key role in the Yeo Valley Productions marketing team, that will govern and provide stewardship for our branded launch process and planning cycle as well as leading large complex projects. This will include leading the optimisation of these processes and embedding them to become recognised business wide tools.
 
 The successful delivery of this role will enable seamless collaboration, better decision making, and empower the relevant demand teams to work with pace and rigour to deliver impactful plans aligned to our company and brand goals.
 
 By using project management excellence and complex problem-solving expertise you will work closely with cross functional teams to deliver large projects and support others to develop their project management capabilities.  
 
Key Responsibilities of the role:
 
  • You will be accountable for leading & implementing a best practise Launch Process framework with a continuous improvement mindset.

  • Lead the smooth running of all Gate meetings, ensuring all NPD & Innovation is managed through the process.

  • Responsible for managing all reporting elements, tracking & approval criteria ensuring a high standard of reporting that enables good decision making and identification / escalation of risk.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to provide recommendations to improve efficiencies, resource planning & risk management. Ability to challenge the status quo to drive better business outcomes.
  • Lead the Product to Launch planning process to ensure Design to Print projects adhere to critical paths, quality and costs.

  • Lead complex branded packaging projects from portfolio refreshes and redesigns to on pack promotions. This includes creation and maintenance of core project documentation as well as closure reports.

  • Ensure adherence to brand guidelines and become a critical friend through good understanding of our brands and working closely with brand guardians.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential:
  •  Minimum 5 years of experience in Project Management roles preferably within FMCG and within food.
  •  Demonstrable depth of experience in managing successful and multiple projects.
  • Proven ability to organize (documents, people, processes, reports)
  • Strong experience in launch and go to market planning process including stage gate.
  • Strong communication and people skills with the ability to build strong cross functional relationships
  • Strong leadership capabilities particularly around accountability and stakeholder management.
  • Proficiency in project management and Microsoft tools / applications.  
 
Desirable:
  • Experience of working in FMCG and chilled food
  • Artwork planning experience
  • Large Scale Capital Projects- Ideally experience in managing or supporting

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
  • non-contributory pension scheme
  • annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
  • life cover
  • healthcare cash back plan
  • cycle to work scheme
  • subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
  • preferential rates with our partners
  • learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.

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