Position Summary

At Nestlé Nutrition, we believe infant nutrition is more than baby food and infant formula. It is about healthier and more prosperous futures through the right nutrition and feeding practices for lifelong journey. Together, we work on nurturing a healthier generation.

In the challenging and competitive market environment of the Benelux Nutrition category, re-ignite Nesquik’s brand iconicity and developing our up-aging portfolio is key for future growth.

Do you have a passion for Kids Nutrition and a drive to unlock new opportunities? Is marketing your area of expertise? Are you an excellent project manager? Join us as we are now looking for an experienced Brand Manager Nesquik and Up-aging within the BNL Nutrition Marketing Team.

A day in the life of a Brand Manager

• Brand Strategy: You contribute to the development and execution of our local brand strategies both in Belgium and the Netherland. Working together with the European and local teams, you build the NESQUIK brand in the retail market. You implement and evaluate the annual plan and ensure successful implementation of commercial plans.
• Product Strategy: You are responsible for executing the local portfolio strategies for NESQUIK portfolio in Belgium and the Netherland. You work on new product introductions, optimization of existing products, and the development and execution of commercial plans.
• Project Management: You are responsible for the operational execution of the commercial plan. You work on cross-functional and international projects for product innovations and renovations. You ensure that projects are successfully completed within set deadlines and budgets.
• Market Knowledge: You proactively monitor trends, developments, and results in the market. You share important insights internally and translate them into concrete commercial actions that can be implemented directly.
• Entrepreneurship: You ensure that we achieve our short and long-term revenue, profit, and market share objectives on NESQUIK while working on the future of the category by identifying new pockets of growth and defining with our cross functional teams (CDT’s & Key Accounts) the best route to market.

As a Brand Manager Nesquik & Up-aging, you report to the Nutrition Marketing lead and are part of the Nutrition team for the Benelux.

What will make you successful

• An entrepreneurial mindset to always look at new or untapped opportunities.
• Minimum 5-6 years of experience in commercial disciplines: Marketing, Category Management, or Sales.
• Excellent command of the Dutch and English language, with a good knowledge of French 
• A team player mentality who can manage different stakeholders and leading complex projects.
• Demonstrable end-to-end project management experience.
• Proactive, analytical, and decisive.

What we offer

• A fulltime position. You will work partly from home and partly in the office. It is a Benelux role for which you will travel to both our office in Amstelveen and Brussels.
• excellent terms of employment, with elements such as a 13th month, company car, 27 holidays and seniority days and many other extra’s
• a large availability and variety of corporate training and development programs;
• career opportunities, within Belgium as well as international;
• an excellent working environment, high team orientation, high brand and company pride, and motivated and ambitious colleagues.
• And of course, you can bring your dog to the office!

Any questions?

Our recruiters would be glad to answer any pending questions. Feel free to send your questions to careers@be.nestle.com.

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