Trade Marketing Manager 1 day per week

The Role 

Brand Hackers are fractional marketing teams for brands with big dreams. We build bespoke teams formed off our full time team & some choice freelancers who support brands scale. We need freelance or contract support to be able to give expert leadership to the brands who come to us, with big ambitions. 

We are working with a food brand that's about to crack retail and we need someone to support their distribution expansion & drive rate of sale. For now, this is just a 1 day a week position, however we are always looking for fantastic freelancers and often 1 day becomes many more...

Key Responsibilities

Your role will be to influence growth in distribution and ensure when the product is in store, the brand exceeds rate of sale expectations. 

- Building retailer activation calendars 

- Overseeing a Brand Exec responsible for execution

- Supporting the Sales Director and Founder with retailer meetings & engaging buyers

- Setting the strategy for media support in retailers and supporting with negotiation 

About you 

You'll be... 

- Experienced managing trade marketing plans in major supermarkets for start up brands with limited budgets and resources 

- Experienced supporting sales teams in their conversations with buyers 

- Creative and entrepreneurial 

- Flexible and understanding that a role might evolve in a fast-growth brand! 

- Excellent project manager and line manager, passionate about developing others and teaching 

Details of the role

- £300 per day 

- Immediate start 

- Must have some flexibility eg. the hours are spread across the week vs. fixed days (our policy is to have no more than 1x "dark day" each week

Why work with Brand Hackers?

Being a freelancer with Brand Hackers means you’re part of our extended family. We know it can be a lonely life, but with us it’s different.

We do all the set up - we have the difficult conversations with Founders, we sort the paperwork, we’ll give you a clear brief & you’re off!

We make sure you’re learning:

✅ You’ll be managed by a Brand Hacker who will push you to do your best work

✅ You’ll have access to a support group of 10+ Brand Hackers

✅ You’ll have templates, tools & tonnes of examples of things we’ve done in the past

✅ All our extended family are encouraged to promote they work for us on LinkedIn which is a great way of raising your profile

✅ You’ll have membership to Up Club while you work with us

✅ One project often becomes more… we even have examples of freelancers who have become full time members of the Brand Hackers team

Finally, we always pay on time. This shouldn't be something we have to celebrate, but we know it can be a challenge.