Oliver Brathwaite — Brand Manager
London
Brand manager with six years in soft drinks and ambient food, owning a £46M sparkling water range end to end. Repositioned it from a diet product to a grown-up soft drink, taking value share from 4.1% to 6.3% in two years.
Experience
Brand Manager, Kingsmere Beverages · April 2022 – present
Owns a £46M sparkling water range of four SKUs, its P&L, its agency roster and two direct reports.
- Grew value share from 4.1% to 6.3% in 24 months while three own-label ranges entered the category, holding price at a 14% premium.
- Led the 2024 repositioning from “no sugar” to “a grown-up soft drink”, lifting unprompted awareness from 19% to 31%.
- Ran the brand’s first television and video-on-demand burst on a £2.1M budget; measured sales uplift paid it back 1.7 times inside the year.
- Won listings in two of the four major multiples by rebuilding the category story around the 16–24 shopper, adding £5.8M of annual retail sales.
- Redesigned the pack after 12 shopper sessions; the time taken to find the range on shelf in eye-tracking tests fell from 4.4 to 2.9 seconds.
Assistant Brand Manager, Coldbrook Foods · January 2020 – March 2022
- Ran the £900k relaunch of a biscuit range; distribution rose from 41% to 68% of stores and the range returned to growth after three declining years.
- Analysed 18 months of panel data to delist two SKUs and back a third, taking £310k of trade spend off products that would never repay it.
- Organised sampling at 22 summer events, reaching 140,000 people at 19p a contact against a 34p benchmark.
Marketing Executive, Graduate Programme, Windlow Home · September 2018 – December 2019
- Rotated through insight, trade marketing and new product development; built the shopper segmentation still used to brief the design agency.
- Coordinated Christmas point-of-sale across 600 stores, delivered on time and 12% under budget.
Education
- BA (Hons) Business Management · University of Exeter · September 2015 – June 2018
Skills
- Brand: Positioning, Pack design, Annual planning, Portfolio architecture, Pricing
- Commercial: P&L ownership, Trade spend, Promotional evaluation, Category selling stories, Forecasting
- Insight: Retail panel data, Brand tracking, Qualitative groups, Concept testing, Econometrics briefs
Certifications
- Level 6 Diploma in Professional Marketing — Chartered Institute of Marketing
