Senior Brand Manager - Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 depending on experience, plus 15% flexible benefits allowance, annual bonus, and benefits listed below.

Function: Marketing

Location: London (nr. Oxford Street), a mix of office and home working

Contract: FTC – 6-12 Months

Application Closing Date: 5th August 2026. Please note, that we may close vacancies early when we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

We’re proud to be the UK’s leading pub, cider and beer company, with a standout portfolio of much-loved beer and cider brands and an ambition to keep raising the bar.

The role:

We’re looking for an outstanding Senior Brand Manager to join our Marketing team, working on one of our iconic beer or cider brands, shaping how millions of consumers experience it every day. This is a high-profile, high-impact role at the heart of our growth agenda, offering the opportunity to lead some of our most important commercial and brand battles.

Reporting into a Marketing Manager, you’ll be a passionate, creative and consumer-centric marketer who thrives on building brands, influencing stakeholders and turning insight into action.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Developing and leading the local brand strategy.
• Partnering with broader Marketing functions on research, innovation, media and activation to ensure holistic brand strategy and planning.
• Owning the annual brand plan and delivering initiatives that drive commercial and brand targets.
• Bringing brand positioning to life through meticulous and consistent execution across all touchpoints.
• Leading brand communications and owning the end-to-end communications strategy.
• Managing multi-million-pound media investment in collaboration with our media agency and in-house, data-driven media organisation.
• Partnering with Commerce functions to deliver leading revenue growth strategies and ensuring delivery of in-market execution against brand strategies.
• Building strong agency partnerships to deliver competitive advantage through seamless ABTL integration.
• Tracking and reporting brand performance (volume, value, share and spend), turning insight into clear, prioritised action plans.

About you:

You’re a curious, consumer-focused marketer who loves building brands and turning insight into action. You’re comfortable owning big decisions, influencing across teams, and balancing long-term brand thinking with short-term commercial impact. You bring energy to your work, ask great questions, and know how to move things forward, even when the path isn’t perfectly mapped out.

You’ll also bring:

• At least 10 years’ experience in brand marketing.
• A strong track record in developing consumer-centric brand plans across all marketing disciplines.
• The confidence and credibility to influence a broad range of stakeholders, including at a senior level.
• Sound judgement and decision-making skills, with the ability to know when to shift from analysis to action.
• A collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively across global, commercial and agency partners.

Why you’ll enjoy it here:

This is a high-profile role with real ownership. You’ll be trusted to make the tough calls, balancing long-term brand equity with short-term growth, and encouraged to stay curious, consumer-obsessed and agile as you go.

You’ll work in a team that’s ambitious, collaborative and supportive, where development is taken seriously, ideas are welcomed, and enjoyment is part of the culture. Expect pace, challenge, plenty of opportunity to stretch yourself, alongside the satisfaction of seeing your work enjoyed by millions!

Our Ways of Working:

Our office sites operate a hybrid model. You’ll spend Tuesdays, Thursdays and one other day in the office and two days from home, although you’re more than welcome to come and work from the office on those days too.

Our Benefits:

In addition to your base salary, you’ll also receive:

• Discretionary Annual bonus
• Benefits Allowance (15% of base salary)
• Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double matched pension contributions (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday (with the opportunity to buy/sell)
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers!
• Exciting opportunities to develop your career

You’ll also get the opportunity to join our colleague networks, in which people from across the business connect to help champion diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring we’re continuing to give people a voice.

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us.

Who We Are:

We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.