Senior Brand Marketing Manager

The Senior Brand Manager will be passionate about Pizza Hut and will help lead innovation across the UK, Ireland & France. They will be responsible for driving projects, strategy, innovation, sales growth, and marketing excellence across the regions, by working very closely with our Franchise partners to provide strategic guidance, advice and influence.

The candidate will be required to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including franchise partners, and bring these partners on the journey to build and activate marketing innovation.

What you’ll do:

Key job functions include:

• Be both the Project and Marketing lead for Key Innovation, working with both internal and external partners e.g., Franchisees
• Own market launch plans and ensure seamless execution
• Leverage learnings & best practices from Pizza Hut Global markets on key marketing initiatives
• Strong partnerships within the Franchise community to create and execute our innovation marketing strategy, using key customer insights to deliver on the key strategic and growth KPIs.
• Build strong relationships based on trust, reliability and expertise both within Yum! and externally with our franchisees
• Be a trusted partner to our global teams and teams across other international markets to leverage, learn and share best practices.
• Work closely with global teams and teams across other international markets to learn, leverage and enable best practice sharing.
• Galvanize management, franchise partners, and cross-functional teams around Innovation

What we would love from you

• 5+ years’ experience in in a fast paced FMCG or Franchise led business organizations with a focus on ecommerce is preferred
• Minimum of 2-3 years of innovation marketing experience in leading ATL, BTL and Online marketing/digital experience
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to gain insights from data analysis
• Confidence to lead project teams and effectively
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels

Welcome to Pizza Hut where we make every single one of our craveable pizzas by hand. And we work even harder to help you handcraft your future. Exactly how you choose to.

No matter what your idea of success looks like, we’ll help you get there. So, you can rise to every occasion, every challenge, and every opportunity.

Our aim is to create an exciting environment to help you get where you want to go –in your personal life and at work. A place to work together and grow as a team. Because, when you rise, we rise. So, what do you think? Are you ready to rise?

MORE ABOUT #HutLife

We LOVE pizza. We eat it a lot. There’s no doubt about that and we’re proud of it. But what makes us different is that it’s our people that drive the success of our business. Alongside KFC, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill, we are part of the Yum! family; the world’s largest restaurant company with nearly 52,000 restaurants in over 150 countries. At Pizza Hut Global, we are on a journey to build the most loved global brand and the fastest growing in every country; we have big plans over the next 5 years to achieve explosive growth in a competitive and ever-growing market.

Our home (center of the universe - ha!) for Pizza Hut Europe is headquartered at the Restaurant Support Centre (RSC) in St. Albans and leads the Pizza Hut brand in more than 25 countries with c. 130 franchisees with more than 1,500 stores.

Pizza Hut Europe offers the entrepreneurial dynamism of a start-up, combined with the commercial strengths of a much-loved global brand.

Our Culture: Breakthrough Results, Teamwork and Recognition

We believe that our success is driven by the power of our employees working in unison with a shared set of common goals and values. We are very proud that Pizza Hut UK, Ireland & France is recognised as a key market not only in terms of innovation but also for the talent we grow and develop for Yum!.

We invest heavily in our people and helping them drive their personal development.

As part of this we give each of our employees the opportunity to go through Heartstyles. Heartstyles is a tool and strategy to measure and manage culture, building people’s self-awareness and helping them to transform their behaviours.

We celebrate success every day and to us recognition is much more than just saying thank you- it is about really celebrating achievements, milestones and behaviours. One of the ways we do this is through our own personal recognition awards.

As a company we take our corporate social responsibility very seriously and encourage our employees to ‘give something back’ through companywide charity efforts.

As an equal opportunity employer, we embrace individuality and diversity. We employ irrespective of background, age, ethnicity, colour, gender, disability, sexual or religious orientation and marital status.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU? REWARD, PROGRESSION, AND LOTS OF RECOGNITION

A career with PH offers much more than just fantastic earning potential. You will be part of a multicultural and dynamic team. Where innovation, collaboration, and Pizza is at our core.

• We can offer flexibility – our RSC is in St.Albans

• Flexible Fri’yay afternoons.

• Company and performance-related bonus

• Generous pension

• Private healthcare

• Annual holiday allowance starts at 25 days with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year

• Recharge Days - an additional 5 days per year to disconnect from our day-to-day (in addition to annual and bank holidays).

• Competitive parental leave and flexible return to work options

If this sounds like you want pizza the action, or have any questions about the opening, please do reach out. We are always happy to help!