Associate Category & Marketing Manager

Job description

Associate Category & Marketing Manager

“I want to become an all-round business manager”

Nestlé Suisse SA, La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland Undefined period of time, 80-100%

The Nestlé Group is the World's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company with an annual turnover of 88, 8 billion Swiss francs and more than 335'000 employees worldwide in 2015. We offer an attractive and dynamic international working environment with constant opportunities for development, reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset. CPW (Cereal Partners Worldwide, a 50/50 Joint Venture between Nestlé and General Mills) is currently looking for an Associate Category & Marketing Manager.

This role directly reports to the CBM of Austria & Switzerland, who will operate from Austria. Sales for CPW Switzerland will be taken over by Nestlé Suisse.

The role will be divided in 2 Activities:
·  Local business coordination as well as category & channel sales development
(“Business coordination & CCSD role”)
·  Complementing local MKT department
(“Marketing role”)

Key responsibilities - “Business coordination & CCSD role”:

·  Serve as 1st point of contact to the CBM on all CH Business planning & performance matters as well as category, competition and Market-share performance updates and insights
·  Integrate & coordinate for CPW Switzerland – in close cooperation with Key Account Management - the tasks of planning, monitoring and management of Revenues and Spend per customer in order to achieve total category targets. Lead both the Commercial Planning as well as the Sales Review
·  Act as the Breakfast Cereals category expert & champion, Design of POS composition, promotional strategy & evaluation and compose trade selling stories (for e.g. annual business plan and New Product launches)

Key responsibilities - “Marketing role”:

·  Manage social media activities on all brands (content planning and execution) and become local expert/coordinator on digital marketing
·  Manage packaging changes (including on-pack promotions) as well as NPD' launches
·  Develop and manage all marketing activities launched via trade partners (print ads, coupons & POS, sampling)

Education and experience

·  3 to 5 years' experience in marketing, sales or CCSD
·  Experience working in cross functional teams
·  Previous cross functional team experience
·  Mother tongue German and fluent in French, excellent level of writing in English

This is a very unique chance to obtain Marketing and CCSD experience simultaneously in one job as well as to get the broad and generic view of the whole business with all aspects from Finance to Sales and Marketing!

Show us that you have all-round skills and demonstrate a passion for trade, shopper and marketing and be comfortable dealing with numbers. We are looking for a passionate, extrovert and perseverant personality. You have a high work capacity, you are initiative and result focused. Do you feel ready for this new challenge? Then apply in English at www.nestle.com/jobs .

The Nestlé Group is the World's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company with 88,8 billion Swiss Francs in sales in 2015, more than 335,000 employees worldwide and 436 factories in more than 85 countries. We offer an attractive and dynamic international working environment with constant opportunities for development, reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset. Learn more about our Group and reasons to join us on www.nestle.com .