Senior Brand Manager, Innovation

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

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

Mission: Working with cross-functional teams, you lead the Perfect Snacks innovation agenda to drive sustainable brand growth and to deliver business objectives. You deliver innovation strategy and drive projects execution to support AC plans. The Senior Brand Manager will lead cross-functional teams, manage budgets, and analyze in-market performance.

Responsibilities & Outcomes:

• Demonstrate strong strategic thinking along with deep understanding of consumer and category insights, as well as market trends to develop a disruptive innovation pipeline to ensure growth sufficiency over a 3-year horizon

• Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across the organization, influencing and negotiating to drive innovation initiatives forward

• Provide inspiring leadership to cross-functional team members and help pull teams together to manage priorities and deliver on goals.

• Be accountable for ensuring on-time launch of complex new platform innovation projects, working closely with cross-functional teams

• Combining compelling story-telling and sharp business acumen, develop compelling launch plans to enable successful customer sell-in and consumer excitement

• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning within the team

What You Bring:

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

• Demonstrated ability to influence teams and experience managing multiple stakeholders

• Ability to simplify complex problems and make decisions quickly in pursuit of constant forward progress

• Excellent strategic and analytical skills; ability to use syndicated data sources to assess competitive space, bringing forth insights and recommendations to integrate into overall strategy

• Strong project management expertise with experience balancing big-picture with day-to-day execution

• Outstanding verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills to internal/external partners

• Consumer insights, preferably in the consumer goods sector in matrix environment

• Confidence in managing and optimizing Financial P&L

• Agility over Perfection

• Execution with excellence and prioritizing results

• Follow through on commitment and persevere through challenges to find creative solutions

Job specific requirements:

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Brand Marketing, ideally working on Natural Foods brands and/or at start-ups/smaller CPG companies, including:

  • Prior experience in CPG innovation and commercialization

• Creative and innovative mindset, ability to think outside the box and challenge the status quo

• Demonstrated understanding of the retail landscape/working with retail accounts

Education / Certifications: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Management, or related field.

Travel requirements: Approx. 4 business trips per year (Company HQ in San Diego for Sales Meeting and Company Events, EM visits, etc.)

Location: This is a remote opportunity based out of NJ/NY/PA/CA. In office expectations for tastings, brainstorms, workshops, etc. will be required about 2 times per month.

The base salary range for this position is $117,400 to $161,425; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.

In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved h