Brand Marketing Associate; Sauces

The Nestlé Professional Solutions at Nestlé USA leverages its position as the world's largest food and beverage company to bring brands that you enjoy in your home, to other areas of your life such as the workplace, restaurants, hotels, and your neighborhood College or University. Our portfolio of products and solutions includes beloved brands such as Stouffer's, Coffee mate, Nescafé, and Starbucks.

With our extensive networks and industry knowledge, we offer unparalleled support and guidance to food service operators, ensuring their success in a competitive market. We strive to contribute to a healthier future by providing the finest ingredients and operational knowledge to every type of food service operation. The strength of our trusted brands is supported by a team of skilled professionals who are dedicated to deepening their industry experience.

Our team of culinary experts and skilled product developers partner closely with food service professionals to generate creative, branded food and beverage solutions that address a wide variety of needs. Our employees thrive on opportunities to grow and develop within the food-service industry, ensuring that we are always at the forefront of industry trends and innovations.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Nestlé Professional Solutions, the Out of Home Division at Nestlé USA, is looking for a Brand Marketing Associate with experience in product management and a track record of success growing business and improving returns via product portfolio management. This role will support the development of strategic recommendations based on robust analysis. The Marketing Associate will have responsibility for profitably growing the Sauce Category and developing business and marketing objectives, strategy and tactics for the business, and executing against these plans.

They will focus on delivering the category plans across multiple brands. They will manage daily activities relevant to the success of these new categories and brands.

• Drive product strategy and commercialization against operating plans and budgets by analyzing product performance vs. expectations and support the development of action plans to address variances in performance against the annual plan.

• Execute day-to-day tactical Product Marketing plans for the brand. Manage category budget. Leverage and use key insights to identify new opportunities.

• Prepare annual business plans and conduct business reviews, as well as assist with mid- and long-term strategic business planning.

• Provide data for regular updates on initiative performance and make recommendations to optimize. This includes annual & monthly reviews of category performance, promotion performance, and ad-hoc analysis supporting relevant brand teams.

• Provide forecast planning support for Brand, Supply Chain, Commercial Development, and Demand Planning teams.

• Identify and implement initiatives to improve customer relevance and financial delivery of existing products through cost and portfolio optimization, product performance, packaging, or price-pack architecture.

• Sustain a high level of relationship management with cross functional partners. Utilize strong strategic and communication skills and ability to assemble and motivate cross-functional teams including product development, commercial development, sales, finance, regulatory and supply chain to accomplish aggressive product plans, influence mix and profitable grow of the overall portfolio. Proven ability for multi-project management.

• Manage the marketing communication assets of a portfolio including digital shelf asset development, website and product web pages, sales tools (brochures, sell sheets, creative assets)…