Client & Brand Strategy Director

As a key member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will champion brand, category, and shopper excellence, ensuring delivery of best in class strategies that connect with consumers and deliver sustainable commercial success. You will hold full P&L responsibility and act as a senior client lead, building trusted partnerships with some of Ireland's most recognisable brands.

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead the client management function with full P&L ownership across your portfolio.
• Act as a senior strategic partner to key clients, building long term, collaborative relationships.
• Provide expert guidance on brand strategy, category management and commercial planning.
• Inspire, coach and develop high performing teams to deliver exceptional results.

Brand & Commercial Planning

• Oversee end to end development and execution of brand growth strategies.
• Lead annual planning cycles, ensuring robust and commercially optimised plans.
• Evaluate and refine brand plans to drive incremental growth and ROI.
• Monitor external trends and the macro environment to future prove brand strategies.

Execution & Excellence

• Drive best in class brand activation grounded in shopper and consumer insight.
• Oversee agency partnerships, ensuring quality, performance and cost efficiency.
• Use data and performance metrics to optimise campaigns and respond to market shifts.
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Client & Customer Engagement

• Partner with Customer Controllers and National Account teams to deliver customer plans.
• Support key customer meetings and strategic initiatives.
• Ensure service excellence and delivery against client expectations and SLAs.

Business Growth & Development

• Identify new opportunities across markets, categories and channels.
• Contribute to business growth strategy alongside the Executive Team.
• Lead client tenders and proposal development.Expand brand reach through innovative go to market approaches.

Talent & Culture

• Champion talent development, performance management and succession planning.
• Create an inclusive, collaborative and high performance culture.
• Lead recruitment and capability building within your function.

Qualifications

Experience and skills required for this role:

• Significant senior leadership experience in FMCG, CPG, brand, marketing or commercial functions.
• Proven track record of delivering high impact brand strategies and growth plans.
• Experience managing P&L, forecasting, budgeting and commercial negotiations.
• Strong understanding of the Irish grocery and pharmacy retail landscape.
• Experience working with or within a distributor model is advantageous.
• Demonstrated success in leading, coaching and scaling teams.
• Degree level qualification in business or a related discipline is beneficial, but not essential.

Skills & Capabilities

• Expertise in brand strategy, category management, shopper insight and go to market planning.
• Strong commercial acumen including ROI analysis, sales modelling and margin management.
• Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Confident presentation and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and storytelling.
• Awareness of economic, market and industry dynamics impacting FMCG.

Benefits

• In Kind Car Allowance
• Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Health Insurance
• Life Assurance

Please note this role does not support visa sponsorship.