Brand Manager

The SunRice Group is an Australian ASX-listed branded food group, comprising multiple businesses, assets and operations across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, the United States, The Pacific Islands and Asia. SunRice was built by the Australian rice industry over many decades, and today is one of Australia’s leading branded food exporters, with approximately 2,000 employees and operations in 11 countries. SunRice is a great place to work, providing a real opportunity for passionate people to make a difference.

About the role

Exciting permanent opportunity for a highly motivated and commercially astute Brand Manager to join our ANZ Marketing team in Melbourne. Bring your FMCG industry knowledge and expertise to drive strategy and business outcomes within our Ambient Pantry & Chilled portfolio. You will lead projects and brand activations to help achieve the portfolio growth agenda. The role has a degree of complexity given the portfolio.

Key responsibilities will include:
Strategy Development: working with the Marketing Manager to develop insight led marketing plans for the portfolio.
Implementation of the brand marketing plans across customers and channels that deliver to the budgeted performance targets.
Portfolio management and development of the innovation funnel and
NPD project management that requires diligent timing management due to an external supply chain.
Brand and NPD activation planning and execution, working collaboratively with sales regarding in-store programs that align to the overall marketing plan.
Support product development (innovation and product improvements) across our international supplier base.
Detailed performance tracking of NPD and total portfolio with insights and recommendations shared cross functionally.
A&P management ensuring spend is in line with budget.
Help deliver relevant business insights to inform the channel/customer plans and relevant NPD projects.

About You

To thrive in this role, you be a self-motivated and driven individual, with a proven ability to work both independently and within cross functional teams. If you are results oriented and enjoy working within the FMCG sector, then this role is for you!

Tertiary qualification in Marketing, Commerce or similar.
Knowledge of FMCG industry and / or Food Marketing.
Strong track record in Brand Marketing in the retail channel marketing to consumers, including innovation and activation.
Commercial mindset: understanding of the commercial P&L and A&P budget management.
Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
Analysis using scan data and retailer platforms i.e. Quantium/ Circana to help find key insights to unlock growth (preferred).
Tenacity and strong influencing skills.

Key Perks Include

Corporate discounts across gym memberships, Bupa Health insurance, travel, car rental & home removalists
Access to staff allowances of SunRice products weekly
Banking benefits with our partnership with CommBank

If you are ready for the next step in your career and this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply below!

All correspondence will be dealt with in strict confidence.

SunRice is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SunRice will consider qualified applicants for employment based on their merit, individual skills, qualifications and other appropriate criteria relevant to the role for which they are applying.