Sr Manager, Brand Marketing- Nesquik

Arlington County, VA (Hybrid)

$164K/yr – $203K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Owns and drives end-to-end brand and product initiatives, from consumer insight-led innovation and renovation to market-ready execution, while coordinating across CX, legal, and cross-functional partners to deliver a strong portfolio strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Insights to create and apply consumer and shopper insight activities that inform innovation, renovation, product experience, and in-market execution, leveraging holistic consumer, category, customer, and competitive understanding to guide strategic decisions.
  • Partner with Consumer Experience (CX) to connect 3C understanding into executional outputs across product, packaging, claims, naming, and commercialization.
  • Provide strategic direction on where the brand and product can stretch through innovation and renovation, ensuring opportunities are grounded in consumer needs, competitive dynamics, and business growth potential.
  • Synthesize innovation dynamics and market performance to inform business reviews, forecasting, product improvements, and long-term portfolio strategy.
  • Lead 3-year I&R pipeline delivery across front-end innovation (FEI), scoping, concept development, commercialization, and market readiness aligned with defined I&R strategies.
  • Own product strategy grounded in 3C understanding, ensuring the innovation pipeline strengthens brand relevance, product superiority, and commercial impact.
  • Define requirements for innovation concepts, claims, naming, packaging, and commercialization deliverables that support successful innovation launches, relaunches, and product changes.
  • Oversee innovation pipeline performance, forecast assumptions, launch performance learning, and opportunities to optimize, scale, fix, or swap initiatives.
  • Lead launch readiness activities, including input for commercial selling materials, launch tools, product-related eContent, customer execution plans, and relaunch/pack/product change materials in partnership with Commercial Development teams.
  • Lead renovation initiatives across product, formulation, and packaging changes to strengthen product superiority, design-to-value opportunities, consumer experience, and long-term brand competitiveness.

Requirements

  • University Degree (BA/BS) in Marketing or related business field
  • In-depth knowledge of brand building management principles and practices.
  • Strong negotiation, agency management, and relationship-building skills.
  • Strong research and strategic analysis skills
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and manage agency partners.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to translate ambiguity into clear recommendations and action plans.
  • Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong financial acumen and understanding of calculating risk/return on business decisions.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities, lead projects independently, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications

Preferred

  • MBA preferred

Benefits

  • Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position.

Salaries

Posted range

$164K/yr – $203K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Brand Marketing median pay in the United States

$116K/yr

Most pay falls between $85K and $165K. Based on 3,195 salaries.

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Sr Manager, Brand Marketing- Nesquik

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA · Arlington County, VA · Hybrid