Brand Manager Babybel et Kiri - Bel France (W/M)
Bel Group Brand Manager Babybel et Kiri - Bel France (W/M)
LOCATION & START DATE
- Permanent contract (CDI) starting from November 2026
- Location: Suresnes, Bel Group Headquarters
YOUR MISSION
Reporting to the Marketing Director and under the responsibility of the Group Brand Director, the Brand Manager Babybel & Kiri will be responsible for the following:
1. Strategic Leadership
- Build a robust business and market diagnosis to identify key challenges and growth opportunities across the brands (combined turnover of €165M).
- Analyze consumer and shopper behaviors, identify knowledge gaps, and derive actionable recommendations to drive business growth.
- Monitor market trends, assess their implications, and recommend appropriate actions.
- Analyze the financial health of the business and identify improvement levers across the entire P&L.
- Define the short- and mid-term strategy for the brands/businesses in close collaboration with global teams.
2. Portfolio Management & Revenue Growth Management (RGM)
- Manage the product portfolio of the assigned brands.
- Contribute to pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies in collaboration with the Commercial Strategic Planning team.
- Own the RGM strategy, including pricing, promotions, portfolio architecture, and productivity initiatives, while ensuring alignment with commercial and global teams.
- Define innovation and renovation strategies (growth drivers, roadmap, and guidelines) for the brands.
- Lead recommendations with Global teams responsible for development and take full ownership of market launches, including the selection and execution of plans required to ensure their success.
3. P&L Management
- Define and manage the marketing budget required to support the strategy while ensuring brand profitability.
- Establish annual objectives (budget targets) for the brands and define action plans to achieve them across the full P&L.
4. Media & Activation
- Develop and execute 360° marketing plans with relevant content and touchpoints targeting priority audiences.
- Coordinate media and creative agencies (including packaging, shopper marketing, social media, influencer marketing, and PR) to ensure high-quality briefs and impactful activations.
5. People Management
- Lead a team of 5 people (3 Brand Managers and 2 interns).
- Ensure strong team performance and continuous development.
- Demonstrate outstanding leadership behaviors within the team and across cross-functional stakeholders.
YOUR PROFILE
- Master's degree (or equivalent professional experience) with at least 7 years of marketing experience, ideally within the FMCG industry, and a solid first experience in people management.
- Experience in a matrix and/or international environment is a strong asset, along with the influencing skills required to operate successfully in a local market within a global organization.
- Strong expertise in retailer and consumer panel data, ad hoc consumer research, and the ability to effectively lead creative development processes with agencies.
- Results-oriented, collaborative, and highly engaged, with a passion for identifying growth opportunities and optimizing business performance.
- Strong people leadership skills, with genuine commitment to team performance, engagement, and development. You know how to balance high standards with care and support.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, agile approach, and comfortable navigating change. You challenge the status quo and proactively propose new ways of working.
- Interest in sustainability and CSR topics, with a personal connection to Bel's mission: "For All. For Good."
- Fluent French and English are required.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive fixed salary paid over 13 months
- Profit-sharing and employee savings plan (PEE)
- Company restaurant
- Additional RTT (working time reduction) days
- Health insurance and life/disability coverage
- Access to a wide range of Social and Economic Committee (CSE) benefits
- Hybrid working policy (remote work available)