Job Description :

Customer Activation Manager for Norway & Finland

Location: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, or within Europe

Duration: fixed term contract for 7 months with possibility to extend

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About the Role

In this Customer Activation role you will work closely with our sales team and distributor partners to understand the needs of monopolies in Norway & Finland and customers in on-trade channels. You will share your expertise with our brand teams in order to devise brand strategies and enable future growth by ensuring insights, growth drivers, and tools that deliver stellar execution of our commercial plans. We are looking to shift consumer and shopper behavior and help achieve Diageo’s market ambitions. Key to success in this role is demonstrating critical thinking and competence of navigating in a multifaceted and regulated environment. If you are self-starter and are looking for role with significant business impact, this one is for you!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Understand customer and brand needs by channel to pinpoint the activation priorities that deliver the greatest impact.

• Build omni-channel activation plans around key activities and drive effectiveness in established channels

• Be a key point of contact for our external distributor partners, internal sales and regional brand managers

• Control, monitor and optimise A&P (advertising & promotion) budgets to ensure effectively driving our market performance

About You

• Experience in FMCG business, in Sales, Customer, Trade, Shopper Marketing, Brand

• Knowledge of Norwegian & Finnish markets is a plus

• Passion for creating experiences for customers and consumers

• Problem solver and teammate who can deal with ambiguity and adapt quickly

• Experience in handling multiple projects at the same time

• Proficient in English, knowledge of other Scandinavian language is a plus

Our Offer

• An inclusive company culture that puts employees and their development first

• A competitive salary with bonus and many benefits

• 25 days of vacation (full year)

• An industry-leading parental leave policy

• Flexible working arrangements that suit your lifestyle

• …and of course, THE best colleagues!

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Copenhagen

Additional Locations :

Amsterdam, Hamburg, Oslo, Stockholm

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-08-16

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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