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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 Brand Operations Manager to join our Nutrition business on a fixed-term maternity-cover basis.
• The Brand Operations Manager will be responsible for driving brand strategy and execution across East and Horn of Africa, ensuring business continuity and delivery of key brand priorities during the maternity-cover period.
•  The role requires someone who can step in quickly, take ownership of the portfolio, and work effectively across commercial and cross-functional teams in a dynamic, science-driven Nutrition environment.

A Day in the Life of a Brand Operations Manager

Consumer & Brand Building

• Develop and update consumer understanding and the consumer engagement funnel for assigned brands.
• Activate Brand Essence consistently and translate insights into relevant brand experiences.
• Manage product and packaging experience, including key brand-health and Nutrition, Health and Wellness measures.

Shopper, Innovation & Commercial Planning

• Understand the in-store environment and contribute to category, promotional, channel and SKU recommendations.
• Apply innovation levers and support the innovation/renovation pipeline to maintain brand vibrancy.
• Contribute to and execute strong, functionally aligned brand and ICP plans.

Performance & Investment

• Track brand performance, health and strategic alignment.
• Understand the business impact of PFME and TTS investment and support disciplined marketing-spend decisions.
• Use business and consumer insights to identify risks, opportunities and corrective actions.

Agency & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with communication and activation agencies to deliver engaging, on-brand experiences.
• Collaborate with Sales, Supply Chain, Technical, R&D, Finance, regional/category marketing and other stakeholders.
• Maintain momentum throughout the maternity-cover period.

 Key Success Measures

• Continuity of brand plans across the focus markets.
• On-time delivery of priority brand and ICP activities.
• Brand/consumer health and commercial performance.
• Quality of innovation/renovation and shopper execution.
• Disciplined PFME/TTS investment and cross-functional delivery.

What will make you successful?

• Minimum 3 years' marketing experience.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Strong consumer and shopper understanding with practical brand-building capability.
• Experience executing brand/ICP plans, monitoring performance and managing marketing investment.
• Strong project management, negotiation, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Previous Nutrition, Medical, consumer-healthcare or science-led category exposure will be advantageous.
• Ability to learn quickly, work with limited ramp-up time and deliver confidently in a fixed-term cover role.

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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.