Activation Manager, GDE

Uxbridge, England, United Kingdom

5/10/2025

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Uxbridge

What you become part of:

Soft drinks is an exciting, fast paced and always evolving category. At CCEP we already have some of the biggest brands in soft drinks and we continue to bring new brands and innovation to market offering choice and value to shoppers and our customers. The Customer Activation team are key to driving the brand portfolio through best in class activation in stores and online. Understanding the brand objectives and shopper insights enables our Activation Managers to identify the right solution to grow penetration, frequency, or spend per trip as required. Keeping the budget under control and assigning spend to the right brands, packs and moments is key to ensuring we deliver the plan to maximise ROI. Customer Activation Managers are ultimately accountable for defining and delivering the ‘end to end’ shopper activation within our Customers. Also working collaboratively with other Commercial Development teams, Sales, The Coca-Cola Company and of course our Customers is key to delivering great execution.

What to expect:

• You would understand the shopper barriers & triggers to purchase and CCEP activation priorities within your environment/customers as well as the key trends and competitor landscape. You will share this knowledge directly with key customers and indirectly through sales teams
• You will work collaboratively with the FS and National sales teams for your customer to activate all of the relevant shopper and brand strategies to meet the defined ABP metrics
• You will understand the commercial implications of decisions in order to make the right judgements to unlock best in class activation ensuring activation is aligned to Commercial priorities
• You will manage and prioritise TME spend within your customer ensuring spend is within allocated budgets and investments are delivering ROI
• You will work closely with our franchisors to execute relevant shopper / brand moments and ensure national campaigns are suitable for your customer to avoid customisation where reasonable for National campaigns (e.g. Premier League)
• For any relevant ‘beacon customers’ for KO brands within your environment, you will work with the Brand Activation Team to create tailored activation plans to drive greater conversion and customer preference
• You will become your customers day to day contact for Marketing queries or recommendations
• You will represent your customer at any relevant internal meetings or external forums (industry conferences)
  
  

Skills & Essentials:

To be successful in this role you need to demonstrate excellent planning skills & budgeting control; analytical and data processing; great communication, both verbal and written, and be confident in communicating with key stakeholders and customers. Experience gained from working within a customer facing role in Shopper Marketing, Sales, or Category Development is preferred.

The closing date for applications is 23/05/25. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.