Senior Brand Manager - Noodles Senior Brand Manager - Noodles

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Brand Manager to join our Food’s business. This is an outstanding opportunity to execute and lead one of the most exciting categories in FMCG and take full ownership of our Noodles portfolio, strategy, comms and innovation pipeline across Australia and New Zealand. You will act as the Brand and portfolio thought leader across Noodles pillar to drive innovative solutions to support the Maggi brand that has great potential to grow – this is a truly unique opportunity to work in an innovative team that creates and delivers the future of Food. You will be working in a fast-paced environment with an innovative team, so if you are passionate about food and have what it takes to take this next step in your career and deliver the commercial outcomes required from this key role, we’d like to hear from you.

Requirements

Experienced brand manager (3-5 years) with proven experience in a similar role within the FMCG industry
Financial acumen, P&L management and creative problem solving is a must to excel in the role
Innovation leadership - solid experience in new product development including concept creation, new product development and commercialisation into market.
A proven track record creating marketing strategies and implementation, NPD and ATL campaign management experience
Tertiary qualified and have demonstrable commercial and financial acumen in project and portfolio management.
Strong communication and relationship building skills needed to engage effectively with multiple internal stakeholders and third-party providers across Malaysia, Australia & New Zealand.

Responsibilities

Manage our Noodles portfolio that accounts for over 60% of Maggi sales in AU, driving strategy and marketing activities of our brand in delivering market leadership in focused B2C channel
Drive I&R pipeline supported by strong insights and data analytics, from ideation through to commercialisation with leadership of first to world innovation in sustainability and product innovation
Be pivotal in the activation of the customer and consumer brand activities and lead communication for product launches
Be essential in managing relationships with local agencies, including packaging and creative agencies as well as key internal stakeholders such as Sales, Category, Insights and Supply chain – in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia
Report directly to the Head of Marketing and have day to day direct stakeholder management opportunities with the Foods management team and Business Executive Officer (BEO)