Specialist Strategic Planning

Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow.

At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

The Strategic Planning Specialist contributes to the Nestlé Coffee & Beverage division’s success by facilitating planning and communication to raise the capabilities of our field sales teams to help deliver their customer selling materials. This position serves as a conduit amongst our internal teams to enable proper execution on delivering on our internal commitments while driving continuously effective communication and planning.

This role also supports the consolidation of customer account reviews and leadership presentations, requiring an ability to flex between high level storylines and customer specific details to drive leadership decisions.

• Coordinate and consult on content development for weekly sales newsletter, monthly sales network calls, Innovation Launches and annual sales conference.
• Ensure all communication is clear, concise, consistent, and accurate while checking that all sales materials align with the overall Nestlé Coffee Partners strategy.
• Facilitate cross‑functional alignment with communication processes to support field sales.
• Ensure all field sales support materials are easily available and content is consistently improved to enable growth and flawless execution.
• Create system‑wide tools and leverage technology such as Microsoft SharePoint & Teams to minimize one‑off requests through process‑driven communication.

• Owns timeline for internal checkpoints including cross‑functional event kick‑offs and content reviews with Leadership.
• Liaise with Nestlé’s event management team on logistics including venue, AV, activities.
• Support Sr. Manager with budget management, working team check‑ins/share‑outs to Leadership, and status updates to cross‑functional teams.
• Collect and analyze feedback from participants, especially Field Sales, to drive continuous improvement and ensure clarity on both business goals and planning expectations.

• Facilitate delivery of product samples to customers as the point of contact for our 3rd party warehouse logistics and inventory management.
• Address ad‑hoc questions and requests from Sales team.

• Business Planning Calls (Innovation launches)
• Monthly C&B Network Calls
• Weekly C&B Field Newsletter (Bulletins) to the broader organization
• Support change management within Commercial Development and Sales as new capabilities are developed and implemented (think AI Agents, new Ways of Working).
• Identify opportunities within C&B and across Nestlé USA to lead change within Communications and Planning.

• 2+ years of experience leveraging multi‑functional resources, building sales marketing plans within a global company, cross‑functional project management.
• Experience with developing internal and external partner communications.
• Experience with MS Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint) and Power
  
  BI (preferred) to consolidate multi‑account plans, analysis and leadership presentations.
• Preferred experience in CPG industry.

• Quick adaptation to changing…