Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I

About the Company

We are Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I, the UK’s third largest soft drinks manufacturer and proud owners of iconic brands including Lucozade Energy, Lucozade Sport and Ribena, which have been enjoyed by millions of people from as early as the 1930s. We directly employ over 700 people throughout GB and Ireland and are a business unit in the wider Suntory Beverage and Food Europe (SBFE) family. We’re proudly owned by The Suntory Group.

Suntory Group is a global leader in consumer-packaged goods, renowned for producing and distributing a uniquely diverse portfolio of beverages, premium spirits, beer, wine, and wellness products throughout the world. Founded as a family-owned business in 1899 in Osaka, Japan, Suntory has grown into a company operating throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. We are driven by a profound purpose: To inspire the brilliance of life, by creating rich experiences for people, in harmony with nature.

Across the world and throughout all disciplines at our company, our people have fun while making an impact. We are committed to crafting high-quality products with respect for the water and ingredients we use. As we benefit from nature’s gifts, we give back, ensuring our company, planet and communities will flourish into the future.

Here, you have the opportunity to work with talented and inspiring leaders, the freedom to dream big and think differently. We commit to creating a work environment where you can bring your true self and Unleash your Spirit.

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Company Name

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I

Job Title

Category Manager - 1 Year FTC

Job Description

YOU

As our Category Manager you’ll be part of a fun and vibrant team where you’ll bring your strategic and analytical skills to create our Centre of Excellence Playbook, including Range, Space, Feature, Back and Front of Store Category Strategies and create the perfect execution playbook for all Channels and Customers in the UK. You’ll get to work with a variety of people in our brand and sales organisations and help to shape the direction of both Suntory and our performance within Channel and Customer. It’s also a role where you can truly create an execution powerhouse for 2025 and beyond into the future.

ABOUT YOUR ROLE

Creating the Suntory Centre of Excellence Execution Playbook.
Creating compelling Front and Back of Store Strategies and Execution Plans.
Focusing on our Physical Availability Strategy & Execution Plans for our 25 and MTP horizon (3 years).
Creating solid, credible internal relationships with commercial and brand colleagues
Using a range of qual and quant data to deliver rounded insight and recommendations
Tailoring the Category Strategy with our customers to engage and deliver long-term scalable competitive advantage and growth.
Implement and deliver strategic, category-focused projects, e.g. deep dives into promotions, underperforming segments, range and space optimization
Creating a Store Vision for the future to help influence and partner with our customers.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Suntory is a fast moving, agile and entrepreneurial business that is home to some of the nations most loved brands. The Suntory Group is one of the largest soft drinks companies and among the world’s leading consumer products companies. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of beverages enjoyed by millions across the globe

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

You’ll have category leadership experience gained in FMCG
Turning macro, category, shopper and consumer data into actionable insight
Transitioning insight into action and delivery
Strong analytical skills
Able to learn and extract actionable insight from a number of data sources e.g. Nielsen, iRi, Kantar, Mintel, Aimia, Dunnhumby, Sales Out
Leadership of projects across multiple teams
Ability to engage customers and stakeholders in a strategic agenda
Demonstrated strategic and category thought leadership
Ability to create and deliver compelling category selling stories based on insight

YOUR FUTURE WITH US

Joining Suntory isn’t just about taking on a role, it’s about embarking on a career journey. You have the opportunity to work with talented, inspiring and authentic leaders and have the freedom to dream big and go for it (Yatte Minahare). At Suntory you’ll find a supportive work environment that values work life balance and that will help you realise your full potential and grow for good. Our People and Culture team are a team that genuinely care about creating a great experience for our employees and we would love you to be part of it.

OUR DEI COMMITMENT

At Suntory, we recognize that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds contribute to our collective success. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all individuals can bring their whole selves to work every day, regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to highlight what Suntory offers as an employer while allowing candidates to share their unique skills and experiences. We understand that career trajectories vary, and if you believe your experience/background can benefit our team, we encourage you to apply. We endeavor to make our interview process as inclusive as possible and offer reasonable accommodations as needed. Together, we can cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive and propel our mission of Growing for Good.

Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid

04-04-2025

Company Name

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I

Job Title

Packaging Technical Project Lead

Job Description

YOU

This is a 24 month contract starting on the 1st of July 2025

As our Packaging TPL you will be the project support for a wide variety of packaging challenges in the areas of sustainability, NPD and licence to operate technical packing projects. Including supporting 100% recyclability & 100% RPET projects. You will contribute to the NPD commitments of the packaging team to drive profitable growth and volume as well as contributing to the saving commitments of the packaging team. Ensure high standard of quality for packaging materials and related processes.

YOUR ROLE

Contribute to development and industrialization of new or renovated pack on productions lies with high quality level/standards according to marketing brief, consumer expectations and regulations.
Propose and contribute to cost reduction projects: on raw materials, production efficiency, rationalization
Contribute to define sustainability plans, monitor and achieve sustainability strategy targets with Eco conception mindset.
Lead pack projects with project management best practice on NPD projects &/or Business continuity projects
Coordinate stakeholders to achieve product launch successfully in terms of cost/quality/timing including industrial tests and 1st production organization and follow-up
Lead risk matrix analysis on the project with relevant expert stakeholders and build risk mitigation action plan
Continuous improvement:
Support factories and quality department on problem solving packaging issues using Kaizen methodology.

Pack category model:
Support and contribute to the pack category model.
Responsible for great standards of packaging specification quality
Contribute and deliver the pack category roadmap.
Proactive watch on the category and way of working improvement linked to the category.

Packaging data & specifications:
Co-lead creation of packaging Bill of Materials (BOM) in the packaging technical library
Co-lead creating and maintaining packaging specifications in the packaging technical library.

Packaging Innovation:
Support with identifying, researching and recommending new packaging solutions driving future growth of the business.
Support relationship with local environmental/recycling agencies
Ensure compliance of our portfolio to new local/regional regulations

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Suntory is a fast moving, agile and entrepreneurial business that is home to some of the nations most loved brands. The Suntory Group is one of the largest soft drinks companies and among the world’s leading consumer products companies. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of beverages enjoyed by millions across the globe

WHAT I NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Quality first mindset
General understanding of packaging technologies and sustainable packaging
Basic understanding of polymers and packaging materials
Experience in an industrial FMCG environment
Strong project management skills
Engineering/Science degree or equivalent
Experience in FMCG
Experience of working with commercial and operations colleagues cross functionally.
Track record of leading through influence
Driving license
Broad, hands-on practical experience, within a manufacturing or technical environment working within food and/or beverage products.
Self-starter with a can-do attitude and positive mindset.
Organised
Strong communication skills

YOUR FUTURE WITH US

Joining Suntory isn’t just about taking on a role, it’s about embarking on a career journey. You have the opportunity to work with talented, inspiring and authentic leaders and have the freedom to dream big and go for it (Yatte Minahare). At Suntory you’ll find a supportive work environment that values work life balance and that will help you realise your full potential and grow for good. Our People and Culture team are a team that genuinely care about creating a great experience for our employees and we would love you to be part of it.


OUR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMITMENT

At Suntory, we recognize that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds contribute to our collective success. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all individuals can bring their whole selves to work every day, regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to highlight what Suntory offers as an employer while allowing candidates to share their unique skills and experiences. We understand that career trajectories vary, and if you believe your experience/background can benefit our team, we encourage you to apply. We endeavor to make our interview process as inclusive as possible and offer reasonable accommodations as needed. Together, we can cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive and propel our mission of Growing for Good.

Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid

16-04-2025

Company Name

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I

Job Title

Brand Activation Manager

Job Description

YOU

This is an 8 month FTC role

As our Brand Activation Manager, you will lead the front end/internal deployment of all Shopper Marketing Campaigns and ensure they are delivered to the customer facing teams in a consistent, simple and efficient manner. It will focus on leading a best-in-class end to end execution process and material to deliver commercial and Brand Growth for Suntory GB&I and allow our customer facing teams to be ‘Gemba centric’
You will develop Shopper toolkits for all campaigns that provide internal and external stakeholders with the right level of information and insight to deliver our Shopper marketing campaigns. You will support the business in creating marketing leading Brand and commercial plans and support delivering our growth agenda. Ensure seamless Brand communication to our external facing sales team. You will lead the short team (6month) execution process ensuring clear and concise communication throughout the cross functional business.
You will work across a wide variety of functions Marketing, Sales, Category, CS&P and Ted, needing to regularly influence a number of key stakeholders at a variety of levels to ensure the plans are optimal, followed by superb execution in market. They will need to ensure they can convert trends, insight, and market activity into insight and ultimately campaigns.
This is a non-customer facing strategic role however it enables the other team members to be 10% Gemba centric. This is done by creating collaborative relationships with our agency partners, lead flawless execution tracking and process and manage all internal sign off process. It will also be focused on delivering against our customer agendas and needs Therefore the individual will need to be able to think in a multi-faceted way to bring together a commercial lens, brand plans and a customer perspective to create rounded and objective opinions and recommendations

YOUR ROLE

Leads the Shopper Marketing campaign creative and management across drinks portfolio. Lucozade Energy, Sport & Ribena
Build strategic and customer centric execution toolkits for all campaigns including the internal back-office process
Develop and implement the end-to-end Shopper Marketing execution process delivers appropriate inputs into the commercial cycle
Lead of the overall tracking and evaluation of each activation campaign including maintaining the master scorecard and providing recommendations for future campaigns based on the insight and data collected
Build and lead the Brand communication platform to enable the flow of appropriate information to the sales function that provides them with best-in-class external facing content
Support the forming and maintaining effective and efficient relationships with a variety of Shopper Marketing agencies and Brand Partners
Share and collate best in class insights from agencies/suppliers/retailers
Owns translation of brand, consumer and shopper insights into shopper activation
Owns review of all point-of-sale material- new technologies/innovation
Support the execution of test & learns

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Suntory is a fast moving, agile and entrepreneurial business that is home to some of the nations most loved brands. The Suntory Group is one of the largest soft drinks companies and among the world’s leading consumer products companies. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of beverages enjoyed by millions across the globe

WHAT I NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Senior Customer Marketing Experience essential
Commercial experience preferable

Key Competencies and skills

Transitioning insight into action and delivery
Leadership of projects across multiple teams
Dynamic thought Leadership
Strong presentation skills
Previous experience in customer facing roles
Desire to create change & to build best in class executions
High attention to detail

YOUR FUTURE WITH US

Joining Suntory isn’t just about taking on a role, it’s about embarking on a career journey. You have the opportunity to work with talented, inspiring and authentic leaders and have the freedom to dream big and go for it (Yatte Minahare). At Suntory you’ll find a supportive work environment that values work life balance and that will help you realise your full potential and grow for good. Our People and Culture team are a team that genuinely care about creating a great experience for our employees and we would love you to be part of it.

OUR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMITMENT

At Suntory, we recognize that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds contribute to our collective success. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all individuals can bring their whole selves to work every day, regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to highlight what Suntory offers as an employer while allowing candidates to share their unique skills and experiences. We understand that career trajectories vary, and if you believe your experience/background can benefit our team, we encourage you to apply. We endeavor to make our interview process as inclusive as possible and offer reasonable accommodations as needed. Together, we can cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive and propel our mission of Growing for Good.

Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid

28-04-2025

Company Name

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I

Job Title

Sustainability Disclosure Reporting Manager

Job Description

YOU

This is a 6 month FTC role

Are you ready to lead sustainability reporting for a dynamic and globally recognized organization? At Suntory, we’re looking for a driven individual to champion our sustainability disclosure frameworks (e.g., CSRD, TCFD, CRD (UK)) and support our ambitious Growing for Good sustainability plan. You’ll be an expert in disclosure reporting with hands-on experience in sustainability frameworks, financial or non-financial reporting, and audit processes. With cross-functional project management skills, you’ll thrive in our global organization spanning 80 territories while embracing our one-company mindset. You’ll join our passionate sustainability team, leveraging cutting-edge technology to showcase our progress toward our Growing for Good commitments.

YOUR ROLE

Lead sustainability reporting and disclosure, ensuring compliance with mandated frameworks.
Collaborate with the Sustainability Director to shape reporting roadmaps and integrate key insights, like double materiality assessments.
Collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data for mandatory and voluntary disclosures.
Act as the main contact with our ESG reporting vendor, optimizing performance to meet goals.
Conduct gap analyses and align sustainability performance indicators with reporting requirements.
Oversee and manage internal and external disclosure audit processes in partnership with key stakeholders.
Coordinate the data collection for the annual SBFE sustainability report, engaging with internal teams and external agencies.
Deliver training to internal teams across finance, supply chain, and sustainability functions to build ESG reporting skills.
Develop and produce the monthly sustainability scorecard and bespoke reports for internal and external use.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Join a fast-moving, entrepreneurial business that’s home to some of the UK’s most loved brands. At Suntory, we offer:
The chance to work with a globally recognized leader in soft drinks
A uniquely diverse portfolio of beverages enjoyed worldwide.
An agile and supportive environment where innovation and ambition drive success.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Demonstrable experience in corporate sustainability reporting and disclosure
In-depth knowledge of climate-related guidance, corporate risk reporting, and disclosure standards.
Working knowledge of climate change policy and regulations within industries such as consumer goods.
Expertise in audit processes and internal controls.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to handle complex data from multiple sources.
Excellent written and spoken English, with a talent for building networks across borders.

YOUR FUTURE WITH US

Joining Suntory isn’t just about taking on a role, it’s about embarking on a career journey. You have the opportunity to work with talented, inspiring and authentic leaders and have the freedom to dream big and go for it (Yatte Minahare). At Suntory you’ll find a supportive work environment that values work life balance and that will help you realise your full potential and grow for good. Our People and Culture team are a team that genuinely care about creating a great experience for our employees and we would love you to be part of it.

OUR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMITMENT

At Suntory, we greatly appreciate the value that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds can bring. Our colleagues from a wide range of cultures, lifestyles, and experiences contribute significantly to our collective success. We understand that our candidates all have unique career trajectories and experiences, and this can sometimes deter you from applying for a role if you don’t feel that you meet all the criteria. If you believe that you have relevant skills and experience that you feel could benefit us, we would love to know what unique perspectives and experience you can bring to help make us better, together in a company that is committed to Growing for Good and Giving Back to Society.

Our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based on the skills and competencies of the above role. We are committed to and value diversity, equity and inclusion in our recruitment process and do not discriminate based on gender, race or ethnic background, class, economic status, disability status, sexual orientation, age, political beliefs, marital status or any other protected characteristic. We want to ensure that our interview process is as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable accommodation as part of the process, do not hesitate to let your recruiter know who will be happy to help.

Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid

29-04-2025