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.