Senior Brand Manager - Seasonal

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Working with cross-functional global and regional teams, you support portfolio strategy that aligns with the category vision to drive sustainable brand growth and to deliver business objectives. You support profit and loss management and future business development plans and objectives including new product development and platform opportunities.

How You Will Contribute

Working with other internal stakeholders, you will determine the priorities to enable consumer-centric brand portfolio growth. You will develop annual plans, setting objectives and allocating resources. In addition, you will offer recommendations for integrated commercial plans execute category marketing plans that deliver on revenue and profit forecasts, sharing objectives and monitoring performance, and delivering results over the AC and SP horizon. Based on your deep consumer insights and brand positioning, you will develop and implement integrated marketing communications and 360-degree campaigns.

What You Will Bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Developing a seamless consumer experience
• Markets with diverse economic environments a distinct advantage
• Managing business objectives beyond brand and budget
• Analytics and creativity
• Consumer behavior, preferably in the consumer goods sector in matrix environment
• Communicating effectively, verbally and in writing, and executive presentation skills
• Leading and influencing teams and managing trade-offs

More About This Role

As a part of this role, you will have chance to lead the team on a broad scope of projects to build your marketing and leadership skills:

Brand Strategies:

Develop long term vision and strategies to grow the Seasonal portfolio anchored in consumer needs by collaborating with key cross functional partners

Innovation and Renovation:

Build long term pipeline of consumer first and customer centric innovation (format, flavours, beyond the core) & renovation. Proactively lead the team to drive both short- and long-term development, including product development unique for the Canadian market.

Execution with excellence:

Lead our cross-functional team to deliver end to end execution excellence for our Seasonal business, from commercialization all the way to customer presentation and in-market execution.

Bring insights and analysis into action:

Become the champion of consumer needs for each key season. Proactively monitor brand & season performance along with key competitors across the market. Work with partners to provide seasonal recommendations.

Business acumen: lead the team to profitable growth by leveraging all levers of the P&L

Brand building and In-store activation:

Build brand equity of our Seasonal portfolio in Canada by developing remarkable creative & media working in strong collaboration with the brand team.

Cross-functional Leadership. Cultivate a growth mindset and strong working relationships with both internal (Sales, R&D, Supply, Revenue Growth Management, Insights & Analytics, Sales planning, E-commerce) and external partners (agencies, packaging designs…)

People management:

Lead, develop, coach, and engage the seasonal marketing team by building a culture of high performance & strong connections.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Creative thinking, learning agility, positivity and resilience when dealing with challenges and complex business problems to solve
• Growth mindset, can-do attitude, and drive for results
• Entrepreneurship and proactive mindset, ability to lean in and deliver results autonomously
• Passion for building collaborative teams anchored in positive relationship building
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills to inspire internal team members

Education / Certifications:

• University degree with focus on Business/Marketing is an asset, but not a requirement

Job specific requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years work experience in a marketing or strategy role
• Ability to thrive in and handle ambiguity & fast paced environment
• Ability to build and deliver against strict timelines
• Ability to work with a cross functional team and inspire agency partners

Travel requirements:

Minimum

Work schedule:

Hybrid

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

We are the second-largest snacking company in Canada and in the top 10 food companies in North America. We make and distribute delicious household favorites including Cadbury, Oreo, Mr. Christie and Maynards. We are an ambitious business—in the past few years alone, we have invested $250 million in our Ontario-based factories. Our community of over 2,600 employees is based across Canada, with our head office on Bloor Street West in Toronto. Canada plays a strategic role for Mondelēz North America and globally. We are proud of our “local-first” commercial focus that enables us to take ownership of our own market and make more, faster decisions closer to our consumers. We are also proud of our top 100 position on Forbes magazine’s 2019 Canada’s Best Employers list.

If you are applying to a position in Canada, accommodations for applicants with disabilities or other grounds protected by human rights legislation are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the employment selection process. For all internal and external applicants who require accommodation in the recruitment and selection process please contact 847-943-5460 for assistance/support.

Job Type

Regular

Brand & Portfolio Management

Marketing