Brand Manager in Crawley

Salary £40,000 - £45,000 depending on experience. Some of our other fantastic benefits include a potential discretionary annual bonus, a generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestlé, 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement, and a focus on personal development and growth.

This is a full-time opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs during the recruitment process.

We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional B2B Brand Manager to join the Nestlé Professional Food & Commercial team based in Gatwick. This role will report directly into the Senior Brand Manager for Savoury Food and will see you work on our exciting Savoury Food Brand MAGGI as we strive to deliver best in class marketing activities that support us to achieve our commercial objectives.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocer.

A little bit about us: Nestlé Professional (“NP”) is our Business-to-Business food service arm, which specialises in the Out of Home solutions market. NP operates successfully in an enormous marketplace and is an ambitious growth driver for Nestlé. The team’s aim is to inspire growth in our partners by providing branded, creative solutions that help our customers develop their business, ultimately driving footfall and increasing their profit.

In the Food & Commercial team, we have created an exciting environment where we all feel we belong, we are the best we can be, and we win together. We want people to feel they can be themselves, dare greatly, and believe their best is yet to come.

Your Impact: As a Brand Manager, you will help define the strategy and build long-term plans for key parts of the MAGGI portfolio, leading key strategic projects end to end. You will support the Senior Brand Manager to manage all elements of the marketing mix ensuring brand equities are maintained and accelerated to achieve great results.

Key responsibilities of this role will include:

• Supporting the development of a clear brand strategy and long-term brand plans, ensuring all brand activities adhere to brand purpose & strategy.
• Delivering agreed sales & profit targets for the brands you support, working closely with our commercial teams.
• Developing a comprehensive understanding of UK Foodservice including media, trade, competition and customer/audience behaviour.
• Closely monitoring to identify marketing issues and opportunities, & ensure plans are maintained and adapted in a constantly changing, competitive FMCG environment.
• Developing strong data analytical skills to generate shopper & consumer insight and turn our strategies into actionable and executable initiatives.
• Supporting the development and implementation of marketing activity across all areas of the marketing mix, working collaboratively with external agencies where needed on elements such as creative development, media planning, advertising, digital (including social media platforms), consumer promotions, PR, sampling and Customer activation.
• Constantly evaluating the effectiveness of marketing programmes & brand performance, adjusting plans in line with learnings.
• Working collaboratively with above-market, retail colleagues & broad cross-functional teams to identify & deliver a strong innovation and best in class product renovation pipeline to drive growth.
• Collaborate internally with e-Business functions to ensure competitive advantage for MAGGI in the digital environment.
• Support the team in the delivery and development of key initiatives on the Savoury Food sustainability roadmap.
• Coordinate and supervise all packaging artwork changes and communication with print managers.
• Leading careful brand budget management of the PFME budgets.

Ingredients to make you successful: To be successful in this role, you will either have some fantastic marketing experience under your belt whilst being very commercially astute. You will be passionate, tenacious, results-focused and enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment. Acting as an ambassador for the brands, you will have strong project management and analytical skills whilst being a conscientious team player. Pro-activity and enthusiasm are essential elements for this role.

You’ll also:

• Have the ability to influence at senior levels both internally and externally, locally & above market.
• Demonstrate strong presentation skills, targeting a wide audience from customers to internal stakeholders.
• Be able to run sizable projects and work streams from concept to delivery.
• Have prior knowledge of running multi-pronged communications programmes.
• Be able to demonstrate your experience of leading new product launches.

What you need to know: We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application. At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.