Temp. Assistant Brand Manager at Nestle

Position Summary

• With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies. We are looking for a Assistant Brand Manager - Nutrition to join our Nutrition business on a fixed-term maternity-cover basis.
• The Assistant Brand Manager – Nutrition will be responsible for supporting brand strategy execution across assigned brands and markets in East and Horn of Africa, ensuring business continuity and delivery of key marketing priorities during the maternity-cover period. The role will support consumer and professional marketing initiatives, brand performance tracking, agency coordination and marketing spend management.
• It requires someone who can step in quickly, take ownership of key deliverables and work effectively across cross-functional teams in a dynamic, science-driven Nutrition environment.

A Day in the Life of the Assistant Brand Manager - Nutrition

Brand Performance & Execution

• Monitor and analyse sales volumes, market-share trends and competitive activity.
• Support effective and on-time implementation of brand activities and projects.
• Conduct pre- and post-evaluation of activities and provide actionable learning.

Consumer & Professional Marketing

• Support consumer and professional-oriented marketing initiatives for assigned Nutrition brands.
• Assist Brand Management with product development, market research and ATL activities.
• Contribute to strong, compliant brand execution in a science-led category.

Agency, Systems & Spend Management

• Coordinate agencies and third parties and manage BTL agencies on assigned tasks.
• Manage and track relevant system activities.
• Track and report marketing spend closely and support disciplined budget execution.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate Business Unit relationships with Sales, Supply Chain, Technical, Finance and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with the NBM and Brand team to maintain business continuity during the maternity-cover period.
• Support execution across assigned ESAR markets outside the current focus-market remit.

Key Success Measures

• Volume and value target achievement.
• On-time, high-quality execution of brand activities.
• Effective agency/third-party delivery.
• Marketing-spend control.
• Quality of cross-functional execution and continuity.
• Compliance with Nutrition marketing requirements, including WHO Code/BMS Act where applicable.

What will make you successful?

• Bachelor's Degree and fluent English.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in Brand Marketing and Marketing Management.
• Working knowledge of consumer and trade promotions, distribution/channel development, basic finance and agency management.
• Strong planning, execution, communication, persuasion and project-management skills.
• Working knowledge of SAP, NPDI, BBNW and ICP will be advantageous.
• Awareness of WHO Code and BMS Act requirements is highly relevant to the Nutrition environment.
• Previous Nestlé Nutrition, Medical Delegate or other science-led/regulated category experience will be advantageous.
• Ability to hit the ground running and maintain executional excellence during a short fixed-term maternity cover.