Portfolio Senior Brand Manager
Woking based with Hybrid working
Competitive salary, up to 25% bonus and excellent benefits package
Innovation is the biggest growth lever in the Nomad Foods Strategic Plan over the next 3yrs. Joining us as the Portfolio Senior Brand Manager, you'll be part of Nomad Foods' Global Portfolio Team which are responsible for the segment portfolio strategy, building commercially viable Innovation & Renovation Pipeline, ensuring our markets have clear Blueprints with how to win plans across all Must Win Battles (MWBs).
About the role...
Reporting into Head of Segment as the Portfolio Senior Brand Manager, you'll be part of a central cross functional team, working in close collaboration with marketing colleagues covering 22 European locations. Part of the Nomad Foods' Group Portfolio Team which are responsible for the Win with our Food Quadrant of the Flywheel.
- Understand the category vision and how its key drivers are the basis for segment growth and brand growth - build clear sell in for innovation and renovation in line with this to support market execution
- Understand the principles of portfolio management and space & place to be able to support MUs to
- identify opportunities for NPD
- Have looked beyond the immediate frozen category to draw inspiration from the broader food market and led the team to apply these learnings within strategies and plans
- Lead innovation and renovation work streams, working in a cross functional team.
- Strong understanding of consumer validation methodology, how to interpret data and insights and make informed recommendations.
- Understand the One Nomad Innovation Process and Stage Gate process - lead workshops and mobilise teams behind the workstreams
About you...
We're looking for an experienced Senior Brand Manager, who has worked in a similar Commercial/Marketing function within a FMCG branded business, (ideally food). You're a strong communicator, able to collaborate and influence stakeholders to achieve goals. We look for people who are focused on getting results, embrace learning and bring positive energy, combining initiative with a sense of teamwork and collaboration.
- Successfully led product innovation development, having ideally worked in a category led organisation
- Able to demonstrate strong people influence skills and collaboration to work in cross functional Teams
- Excellent project management skills
- Ideally work across different countries and with diverse nationalities
What we can offer you:
We're on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career and we aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.
- An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
- A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference
- The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group
Who are we:
Headquartered in the UK, with revenues of €3.2 billion and operations in 22 key markets, Nomad Foods is Europe's leading frozen food company. We are a young company, founded only eight years ago, and built around a number of iconic brands (including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo and more recently Ledo and Frikom) that invented the frozen category 100 years ago and continue to set the bar for great taste, nutrition, convenience and affordability. Across everything we do, we are guided by our Purpose - Serving the World with Better Food - and how we can make a positive impact on our Performance, People and the Planet.
At Nomad Foods we're proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.