Brand Manager, Bitesize & Adjacent

Job Description: Job Purpose A brand custodian with responsibility and accountability for designing and executing the local brand strategy and marketing activities that deliver specific brand objectives, including NSV and penetration targets, in alignment with the global framework. The brand manager must have the experience, expertise and skill set to develop an optimum calendar in local market, while ensuring excellence in execution on ground. The role also leads innovation across the chocolate portfolio. The brand manager is the go-to person for identifying and valuing new opportunity spaces, building the business case, validating it with consumers and working with factories and co-manufacturers to take the right ideas from concept to launch. Roles & Responsibilities Own & manage the brand • Analyze the category and brand performance and identify whitespace opportunities to accelerate growth. • Set the brand's short and long term strategy to deliver quality growth and growing penetration. • Manage budget and resources effectively to deliver marketing/activity calendar • Connect with cross functional teams to support creation of an integrated business plan that ensures delivery of key initiatives in market • Create and develop the local market brand marketing plan and activity calendar, and manage budget and resources to deliver it. Deliver market relevant brand content • Leverage the right global content when relevant & work with the content team & media team to find the most effective ways to support the brand • Ensure content & executions are consistent with global brand guidelines and are locally relevant Manage & deliver projects & activities • Co-lead with the activity management team a cross functional ATG team to collect all inputs required to deliver a 3-year activity plan including media plans, NPIs, BPIs, consumer promotions and other national activities. Education & Professional Qualifications Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; Master's is a plus. Knowledge / Experience 5 7 years in brand management and/or innovation , preferably in a multinational CPG company. Track record of owning and growing large-scale brands; strong strategic, commercial and analytical acumen. Has taken innovation from whitespace to shelf, ideally across more than one brand or category. Hands-on with full-funnel marketing plans media, in-store, digital; works well in complex matrix organizations. Middle East & Africa experience a plus, with focus on GCC/Egypt.