Activations Manager

**Position Snapshot**

12-month contract

**The Opportunity**

Nestlé Purina is seeking a Trade Activation Manager to join our dynamic team. Reporting directly to the National Trade Activation Manager, this role is integral to implementing the Go-To-Market Trade Activation strategy across the Total Business.

In this role, you will:

- Develop and execute effective shopper conversion strategies tailored to key customer accounts.
- Design and implement engaging point-of-sale (POS) and digital suites, along with tools to support field teams in delivering exceptional execution.
- Manage creative development and print production, ensuring alignment with the PFME budget.
- Collaborate with brand & customer teams to translate brand plans into compelling shopper-centric activations, ensuring alignment with customer execution plans.

**A Day in the Life**
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Trade Activation initiatives across all brands, overseeing campaigns from ideation to execution.
- Manage and maintain the Trade Activation calendar to ensure seamless execution of initiatives.
- Design and develop best-in-class point-of-sale (POS) materials and creative assets to enhance brand visibility and drive growth.
- Leverage shopper insights to conceptualise and implement impactful activation ideas and strategies.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and internal stakeholders to ensure seamless collaboration.
- Actively contribute to the development and execution of brand plans.
- Manage agency partnerships effectively, ensuring optimal performance and alignment with objectives.
- Follow financial processes, including raising and receipting purchase orders (POs) in a timely manner and managing budgets.
- Perform post-campaign analysis, providing actionable insights and sharing results with relevant stakeholders.
- Stay informed on emerging trends and innovations, incorporating learnings into post-campaign reports and future planning.

**What will make you successful**:

- Degree qualified with 2 years of experience in FMCG Sales and/or Marketing or Agency; operational and/or field experience is a plus.
- Strong project management and process skills
- Attention to detail
- Proficient in financial tracking.
- Computer savvy, especially in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Effective communication skills.
- Ability to prioritise tasks efficiently.
- Proactive and capable of working independently.
- Full Australian working rights and applicants may be required to undergo pre-employment checks, including but not limited to health checks, prior to appointment to this role._

**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:

- 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
- 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.

At Purina, it's no secret that pets are our passion. Our vision is to be the world’s most trusted company in enriching the lives of pets and the people who love them. We’re dedicated to improving the health and lifestyle of cats and dogs through quality nutrition and care. Put simply, we believe a healthy pet makes for a happier home and our commitment to dogs, cats and their owners has made us a world leader in pet care.

The bonds we have with our pets nourish their lives as well as ours - we truly believe Pets and People are better together.