Marketing

Behind the growth of our brand is a brilliant marketing team identifying development opportunities, creating plans and strategies and putting them into action. Our people lead all aspects of the marketing mix, from brand planning and consumer understanding and insight to communication, advertising, PR and CRM.

Our marketeers understand their local markets and how to get consumers excited and inspired about our great products. This understanding supports product development, makes our strategies more rigorous and products more successful.

If you're looking for an FMCG environment where nothing's off limits and you'll have the freedom to bring your own ideas and see them come to life, then our marketing team is the place for you. There's no shortage of scope for development and real management opportunity for people who can match strong analytical skills and sound creative judgement and the ability to work across a range of functions.

Supply

This is made up of several different key functions working together to deliver great quality and service to our customers, wherever they are in the world.

The commodities team pride themselves on sourcing the finest quality teas from around the world and provide the technical precision to complete the blending process. This is underpinned by a much broader procurement activity and innovative packaging sourcing. Our logistics team work across a wide spectrum of functions to ensure our products get to the right place at the right time. Everything we do is also governed by our absolute commitment to exceeding customer expectations and contributing to the UK and international NPD agenda.

Exceptional managers and great leaders, with strong analytical and projects skills, our supply people know how to get the job done. In return, they enjoy opportunities for development and progression, the potential to gain experience in the international marketplace and be part of in an interesting and stimulating business.

Sales

By joining forces with our UK Marketing team to form an integrated commercial function, our sales team is able to maximise sales and growth opportunities by developing a clear understanding of our customers' and consumers' requirements. In addition to the benefits of this supportive and collaborative approach, you'll also enjoy rewards of working with iconic, high margin brands in a growth market.

If you love the cut and thrust of the sales environment, along with the challenge of real accountability and that feeling of being in charge of your own destiny, then Twinings can offer all three. Not to mention, career development opportunities across account management, field sales, planning, processing and logistics.

IS

We're an ambitious company, but we won't get very far without robust IT systems. That's the responsibility of our IS teams around the world. Their work has two clear objectives - ongoing business support and major projects. This includes the development of our business intelligence systems that will deliver a step change in our business decision-making capabilities, so as you can imagine, they have a hugely influential part to play in achieving our commercial objectives.

With so many activities, projects and programmes on the go at any one time, our IS department is a place where strong project leaders who can communicate at all levels and drive creative solutions will thrive.

International Markets

Our International Markets team operates all over the globe, from the Nordic regions, the Middle East and the Caribbean to Brazil, Venezuela, Italy, Russia, Africa and Japan. Despite their cultural differences and geographical proximity, they have forged a close, highly supportive team that has an outstanding track record. In fact, their ambition, solid strategic thinking and exceptional understanding of the international marketplace enables them to consistently achieve double-digit year-on-year growth.

At the heart of this is fun, immense drive and a passion for identifying and exploiting opportunities partnered with a great combination of commercial and strong marketing capability. If that sounds like the sort of place you would thrive, then the career potential here is truly global.

Finance

In addition to the central accounting and reporting function, our Finance department takes an integrated approach by placing specialist finance teams in each business unit. This ensures that finance is truly close to the business, keeping a commercial perspective and every aspect of the company can count on local, expert financial support.

The net result is clearer business insights for both UK and international operations. All of which is supported by cutting edge intelligence reporting systems and web based applications.

Our ultimate goal is to deliver improvements and commercial progress. To achieve this, our Finance people are given genuine freedom in their decision-making. They are also empowered to work proactively and encouraged to develop their professional expertise.

Manufacturing

You'll be amazed at what goes into creating our sensational range of flavours. And it's the role of our Manufacturing department to take the raw tea and deliver the finished product to our exacting standards. It's all about aiming high; continual improvement, exceptional quality and on-time delivery, while also ensuring that our cost per unit remains flat.

Based in Andover or North Shields , you'll find that working for a fast growing and profitable business creates opportunities with genuine accountability and a range of shift patterns that provide greater job scope and improved productivity. In addition there is excellent potential for personal development in teams where everyone is fully involved and takes immense pride in what they do.

Graduate Programme

Our success is dependent on people. Which is why, in partnership with other ABF Grocery businesses, we have a graduate scheme that offers real jobs and real responsibility. That doesn't mean you'll be thrown in at the deep end. It means that right from the outset, you'll be involved in real world sales, marketing and supply challenges and decision-making. You'll also be fully engaged with your line manager, who'll ensure that you're learning and sharing your experience with others on the scheme and benefiting from off job training as part of your skills development.

In addition, our joint workshops, secondments and project work help graduates to gain valuable insights into other businesses, such as Jordans and Ryvita, Silver Spoon, AB World Foods or Allied Bakeries.