Bright & Ambitious?

Marketing Executive (Dublin Office)

Company:

In business since 2003, at Vista Foods our mission is to provide our customers with excellent food products under our brands from the world’s best manufacturing sources. Our business has doubled over the past 5 years, and we have in place the ambition, plans, and resources for further significant growth into the future.

Our core frozen products are leaders in their markets and Irish consumers currently eat over a million portions of these products each month.

We are looking for bright and ambitious people to join our successful Dublin-based team.

The Role:

Based at our Dublin office, the marketing executive will contribute to the overall smooth functioning of the marketing department as a support to the company business development and sales growth strategies.

The ideal candidate will have a third level marketing qualification ideally with 1-2 years’ experience in a marketing trainee role. Their next career step is into a broad based hands on marketing role where they can gain valuable trade and consumer marketing experience in a fast paced growth focused company with a strong brand ethos.

Key responsibilities include:

  1. Through our mentored training programme, developing an understanding and appreciation of how the company’s products meet customer needs and deliver a sustainable competitive advantage in the market.
  2. Developing the interpersonal and presentation skills necessary to comfortably deal with the different foodservice channel operators.
  3. Developing your marketing skills to allow you become a key member of the sales and marketing team.
  4. Carrying out field based market evaluation assignments to develop an in-depth understanding of the different foodservice operators and how we can help them drive their success.
  5. Working on small scale business development projects on a mentored basis to build your understanding and appreciation of our account management and business development process.
  6. Developing reporting skills necessary to confidently report on your activity, achievements, and progression on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to the management team.
  7. Developing your skills on the key Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and on the business CRM system.
  8. Contributing to the development of the business as part of the marketing team.

Skills, Attributes, and Experience:

  1. Confident, ambitious, and open to learning and personal development.
  2. Performance focused, and comfortable pursuing a career where your ability to deliver results is directly related to your success.
  3. Excellent listening skills with a natural empathy for the customer and being on ‘their side’, and the ability to distil the information gleaned into a coherent marketing perspective.
  4. Good interpersonal skills and phone manner, with the confidence to interact at all levels from the business owner to the shop floor.
  5. Disciplined work ethic with good organisational and time management skills.
  6. High level skills in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and Powerpoint.
  7. Excellent understanding of the digital marketing landscape and its central importance in the marketing mix.
  8. Previous experience in a marketing environment would be an advantage.
  9. Third level qualification in a marketing discipline is essential.

To apply, please email a current CV with a covering letter summarising yourself to ray@vistafoods.ie.

 

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