Brand Manager - Vodka
Job Title: Brand Manager
Location: Budapest
Contract terms: Permanent
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Role
Purpose of the Role
The Brand Manager operates within EEME's distributor-led business model, where Global teams define brand strategy, positioning, growth drivers, innovation pipelines and core brand assets; Regional teams provide portfolio direction, investment priorities and capability; and market teams translate these into locally relevant plans.
The role is responsible for bringing assigned brands to life in market by translating Global and Regional brand strategy into locally relevant consumer activation and growth plans.
Execution is primarily delivered through distributor partners and agencies. The Brand Manager therefore plays a critical role in equipping, influencing and challenging partners, providing clear brand standards and activation direction, and ensuring execution consistently reflects Diageo's brand ambition.
Working closely with Commercial, Customer Marketing, Consumer & Shopper Insights and distributor teams, the role connects consumer understanding with commercial opportunities to strengthen brand equity, recruitment, penetration and sustainable growth.
Top Accountabilities
- Drive brand growth and performance by identifying opportunities, managing risks and delivering against key business objectives.
- Translate global and regional brand strategies into impactful local activation plans and campaigns.
- Leverage consumer, market and cultural insights to strengthen brand relevance, equity and commercial performance.
- Partner with distributors and agencies to ensure consistent, high-quality execution aligned with brand standards.
- Monitor investment effectiveness and optimize plans to maximize growth, efficiency and ROI.
- Collaborate across Marketing, Commercial, Customer Marketing and Finance teams to unlock new growth opportunities.
- Degree in Marketing, Business or a related discipline.
- Typically 4-6 years of relevant Marketing, Commercial or FMCG experience.
- Experience managing brands and/or delivering integrated consumer activation.
- Strong understanding of consumer marketing, brand building and activation principles.
- Experience translating consumer and market insights into actionable plans.
- Commercial understanding with ability to connect brand activity to business performance.
- Experience working with agencies and multiple external partners.
- Distributor or indirect-route-to-market experience is highly desirable.
- Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Good digital, data and AI literacy, with ability to leverage new tools to strengthen marketing effectiveness.
Flexible Working Statement
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Diversity statement
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- Pet Insurance
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- Pension
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Woman founded/led
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