Careers at Benchmark Drinks
Benchmark Drinks has established itself within 8 years as a major UK wine supplier and top 10 supplier of premium wines – we are the fastest growing wine business in the UK.
Working with personalities such as Kylie Minogue, Gary Barlow, Gordon Ramsay and Graham Norton, Benchmark Drinks has created an exciting premium portfolio of award-winning global brands sourced from around the world.
We are in an exciting stage of our growth and always looking to build the team to support the ambitions of the business and our brands. We offer a friendly, dynamic working environment as well as encouraging and investing in wine education and training opportunities across the team.
Our office is based in south west London by the River Thames and next to Wandsworth Park with great transport links.
If you are interested in joining us please send your CV and tell us a bit about yourself to info@benchmarkdrinks.com
Positions Vacant
Job Title: Senior Brand Manager
Location: Office Based, Wandsworth SW18 1NN
Role overview:
- In partnership with the other Senior Brand Manager, inspire, lead and manage Benchmark Drinks Marketing function
- Drive brand, channel and customer-specific plans that grow the Benchmark Drinks business
- Execute brand activation in conjunction with sales team and third–party distributors
Day to day management of key commercial initiatives managing relevant project teams to ensure timely delivery in line with business requirements
- Develop portfolio strategy and create annual brand plans for focus brands
- Develop and manage product and brand activation plans that will deliver the annual Benchmark Drinks business plan including all aspects of the marketing mix – ensuring integration with sales, operations, and finance
- Management of brand and customer marketing budget course correcting where necessary
- Champion the brands portfolio internally, through appropriate reports, presentations, and attendance at key meetings
- Liaise with Brand Owners / Brand Principals on above where applicable
- Work with sales and third-party distributors to ensure that brand plans are presented to key customers & relevant internal parties
- Develop concepts & introduce new products/packs as appropriate
- Manage external agencies – advertising incl. website, design, promotions, research, and PR to deliver projects on time and to standard
- Continually review brand performance and recommend adjustments to plans as necessary
Manage, coach and develop Marketing Executive
- Strategic planning
- Customer marketing
- Commercial awareness
- Insight and planning
- Category development
- New product commercialisation
Design/packaging origination
- Graduate with 3-5 years’ experience in FMCG brands marketing environment
Contact with / direct experience in a sales role
Positions Vacant
Job Title: Warehouse & General Office Assistant
Location: Office Based, Wandsworth SW18 1NN
Role overview:
This role will prepare and dispatch all wine samples requested, as well as deal with merchandise requests from Export customers. You will maintain our small on site warehouse in good order, as well as liaising with our larger 3rd party warehouse as required to obtain necessary stock for packing and dispatch. This role will also be responsible for maintaining the general condition of our busy office in SW18.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deal promptly with requests for wine samples, obtaining them from the warehouse, securely packaging and arranging for dispatch in a timely manner.
- Sorting out and packing/dispatching merchandise to Benchmark’s export customers, ensuring necessary records are maintained for invoicing etc.
- Opening up/ closing up the office each day asrequired.
- Maintaining the tasting room in good order, preparing it ahead of tastings and then removing bottles/ dirty glasses after tastings have taken place.
- Accepting deliveries into the office, unpacking and putting away stock, and ensuring that the working environment is maintained in safe manner.
- Signing for post/deliveries arriving with the business and ensuring they reach the correct person within the company.
- Liaising with DPD/ other delivery companies to ensur that orders are collected in a timely manner.
- Providing general administrative / other support within the business when own workload drops off/ is low.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Willingness and ability to undertake physical aspects of the role, unpacking pallets, putting stock away, maintaining warehouse in good order, moving stock around the office etc. in a safe manner.
- Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively via email, telephone and in person
- Strong interpersonal/relationship building skills both internally and externally
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently and without continuous supervison
- Good IT knowledge to enable the use of Office 365 applications, and to learn and use the stock control system.
