Join our team!
We are looking for a Brand Manager to join the team here at Elior.
You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Elior stays market-leading by creating and refreshing brands, concepts, and campaigns, while partnering with third parties to deliver innovative, commercially viable brand partnerships that drive new bids, sales, and margin growth in existing sites.
What you'll be doing...
Main Duties:
- Create and launch innovative brands and sub-brands from design, food, and marketing perspectives.
- Develop and manage brand partnerships, working with stakeholders to bring new brands, chefs, concepts, and products to market.
- Prepare marketing briefs for the food development team, including competitor analysis and trends.
- Deliver creative briefs to agencies for branding and point of sale.
- Manage relationships with creative, print, and research agencies, ensuring timely and budget-friendly execution.
- Create central campaigns to drive sales, coordinating with marketing managers for an annual plan.
- Oversee project management and implementation of concepts/campaigns across teams.
- Ensure proposals add commercial value, adjusting where needed.
- Maintain brand materials, including standards and matrices.
- Regularly monitor competitor activity for new opportunities.
- Keep internal and external collateral updated.
- Provide insights for sales and retention teams, supporting bids and presentations.
- Coordinate third-party photography for optimized customer-facing collateral.
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
What can you bring?
Skills:
- Proven ability to use insights, branding, and marketing to drive brand performance and commercial results.
- Skilled in managing third-party relationships.
- Strong project and stakeholder management.
- Creative thinker with design direction expertise.
- Confident presenter, able to inspire teams with a shared vision.
- Knowledge of trends in food, beverage, or grocery industries.
- Experience with design and food briefs.
- Good understanding of operational site realities (equipment, space, layout).
- Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and brand/category management systems.
Elior are offering a competitive salary PLUS a 15% performance bonus.
Our way of saying thank you...
At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.
FREE Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches on office days, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.
Support Your Way of Life:
- Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
- Hybrid Working Model: Collaborate & innovate in the office three days a week while enjoying focused work-from-home days
- Holiday Allowance: Relax & recharge with 31 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
- Additional Holiday Purchase Option: Customise your time off by purchasing extra holidays
- Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
- Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work
Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:
- Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community
Supporting You Through Life's Ups & Downs:
- Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits
Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:
- Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle to work scheme
Why it's great to work for us...
Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK's leading contract caterers, with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors including:
- Workplaces & Office Space
- Sporting Venues & Stadiums
- Attraction & Heritage Sites
- Public Sector & Defence
- Health, Care & Hospitals
- Schools, Colleges & Universities
Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we're committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.
That's why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!
Elior Celebrates Equality
Our aim is to celebrate a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, continuing to make Elior a great place to work!
Every colleague has a distinctive set of values, skills, and aspirations. To ensure that we attract, develop, and retain best people from the widest possible talent pool we're committed to providing an inclusive environment where our colleagues fulfil their potential and have the opportunity to succeed.