Leeds
Are you passionate about working for a brand that’s striving to make real societal change? Do you want to support some of the UK’s largest brands to make their products menopause friendly? Do you thrive in small, fast-paced environments? Then we’d love to speak to you. We’re GenM, the menopause partner for brands, home of the MTick, and together with our collective of retailers and brands, we’re bringing choice, trust, and credibility to the menopause marketplace for the 15.5m women experiencing menopause in the UK. In just four years, GenM has built a powerful collective of over 140 consumer brands — from Dove, Colgate, Centrum, Sanex, Sure, Wild and Tena to major UK retailers including Boots, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and WHSmith. We’ve spoken on global stages, won coveted awards, and conducted pioneering research that shows the changing menopause landscape in the UK. We’re growing at pace in the UK and have recently expanded into Australia and Southeast Asia, with further markets planned for launch within the next 12 months. Due to our fast-paced growth, we’re building a gold-standard team to support our ambition of becoming the globally recognised certification for menopause products and services. The Role As Brand Manager at GenM, you’ll be at the heart of building one of the most exciting purpose-led brands in the UK and beyond. You’ll shape and scale the GenM brand and MTick certification across multiple markets, working closely with the Head of Retail Marketing and our commercial and partnerships teams to drive bold brand strategy and standout execution across both B2B and consumer audiences. This is a rare opportunity to help develop and define this new and exciting category of retail. You’ll ensure GenM is a distinctive, credible, accessible and inclusive brand, championing menopause visibility, accelerating awareness of the MTick, and delivering powerful, best-in-class brand experiences across retail, digital, PR, partnerships and live moments. Key Responsibilities Brand Strategy & Positioning • Lead development and execution of GenM’s brand strategy across UK and international markets, • Evolve and protect brand identity, tone of voice and visual consistency, • Plan and deliver integrated brand campaigns across digital, retail, PR, partnerships and events, • Develop brand toolkits and campaign assets for partners, • Support partners to activate the MTick on packaging, in-store POS, online and across media channels, • Plan and deliver GenM’s industry-leading annual consumer research, from brief development to fielding research and building the insights, you will manage the end-to-end process of its creation and delivery to the partners, • Manage external research agencies feeding into the consumer report, developing briefs and guiding outputs, • Oversee development of brand and marketing content across all channels, • Ensure consistency across website, social, CRM and presentations, • Collaborate with PR and communications to amplify GenM’s voice, • Work with retail, brand and strategic partners to ensure strong brand representation, • Collaborate cross-functionally across commercial, partnerships and international teams, • Manage external creative and content agencies The Person Experience & Skills • 5+ years’ experience in brand management or marketing, • Personable individual with an ability to build and nurture relationships, • Confident communicator and presenter, • Positive thinker with a can-do attitude – roll-up your sleeves and go, • Strong commercial instincts, with an ability to understand partner goals, • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence working cross-functionally and externally at pace, • Strong project management skills, able to manage multiple partner workstreams, deadlines and approvals simultaneously, • High attention to detail, particularly around activation quality, • Digitally proficient in Microsoft Office (including Excel), CRM tools and email platforms. Benefits • 25 days holiday + Bank holidays, • Pension, • Remote working, • Competitive salary and benefits