Brand Manager

**The Opportunity**

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Brand Manager - Foods to join our Pacific Islands team. In this exciting role, you will be reporting to the Head of Marketing, Pacific Islands. You will be accountable for driving the marketing agenda of the largest category across the Islands including strategic planning, communication development, innovation and unlocking further growth opportunities.

As a key member of the Nestlé Pacific Islands (NPI) Marketing team, this role involves coaching and mentoring marketing team members in the Pacific Island markets, fostering their growth and development. We are seeking an ambitious and energetic individual to join our team in this exciting opportunity

This is a mission critical role for the Pacific Islands and we're looking for someone with ambition to keep our growth & profit ambition going

**A day in the life**

The Pacific Islands are a dynamic, sometimes volatile marketplace, and this role reflects variety and requires a level of flexibility. The role is:

- Responsible for planning and the development of MAGGI Commercial Plans
- Responsible for the development and successful execution of the annual marketing plan, ensuring all marketing initiatives are delivered on time in full & aligned with key objectives.
- Leading the development & implementation of brand investment and communications plans.
- Implement marketing initiatives in accordance to Brand Guidelines
- Locally relevant innovation from concept, development through to launch.
- Stakeholder management including local leadership team, and multi market Pacific Teams along with relevant R&D leaders and the Strategic Business Unit in Switzerland.

**What will make you successful**
- You will have a love for food, people and the market leading beacon brand across the Pacific: MAGGI
- A proven track record creating marketing strategies and implementation, new product development (NPD) and ATL campaign management experience
- You will possess strong business and commercial acumen and have considerable experience in marketing, desirably within FMCG category.
- The ability to influence cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams to build, agree and execute a solid growth-oriented strategy
- NPD experience, and experience working closely with a technical and factory teams
- The successful applicant will possess significant interpersonal, networking and relationship skills with a proven ability to engage and influence at senior levels

**Benefits**

You will have the chance to work with an outstanding and highly engaged team, build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader.

In addition we offer:

- Paid Travel to Pacific Markets: FIJI, Tahiti; New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model
- Varied career experiences and personalised development support
- Wellbeing benefits including vaccinations and health insurance discounts
- Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and program
- Paid parental and partner leave
- Purchase Leave Scheme
- Volunteering leave, Sports leave, Emergency Services leave
- Discounted gym memberships
- Discounted Nestlé products
- Novated Leasing
- Salary Sacrifice to Superannuation

**Our Story**

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering an inclusive, diverse, and collaborative environment, embracing innovation, and empowering people and teams to win.

We aim to hire respectful, curious, value driven and inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.

Be a force for good.