Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA
Senior Brand Manager
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Business Area: Nestlé
Location: York (Hybrid 2-3 times a week in the office)
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Some of our other fantastic benefits
- 17% car allowance
- Potential, discretionary annual bonus
- Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle
- 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
- 2 paid volunteering days
- A focus on personal development and growth
Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.
We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Confectionery team as a Senior Brand Manager responsible for our Seasonal brands, based at our York office.
This is a really exciting opportunity to join the team and could provide you with the opportunity to be at the heart of some of the world's biggest brands. This role reports directly into the Marketing Manager.
Nestlé Confectionery UK
Nestlé Confectionery UK is home to a house of fantastic brands such as KITKAT, AERO, ROWNTREE’S, QUALITY STREET, MILKYBAR, SMARTIES and AFTER EIGHT to name but a few, and many of which have been enjoyed by consumers for generations. Here at Nestlé Confectionery UK, we strive to put the consumer at the heart of everything we do and create delicious treats responsibly for people to enjoy day after day.
Your impact
As a Senior Brand Manager, you lead the development of the UK Seasonal brand strategy ensuring share growth in a complex and dynamic category. You will work collaboratively in a matrix team and be responsible for alignment and support for strategy direction with the individual brand teams and senior stakeholders. The Senior Brand Manager is responsible for delivering innovation and renovation projects as well as communication campaigns. Your role will include the delivery of our annual commercial presentation and customer sells to engage and excite our retailers and secure excellent implementation for our plans.
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Your role will ensure we deliver against the business objectives with the consumer and customer in mind. Some of the areas you will be involved in delivering include:
- Our Seasonal Confectionery brand strategy, with a focus on the Christmas and Easter seasons, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and inspiring the business with our ambition
- Successful creation and deployment of innovation and renovation projects
- Excellent execution and communication of our much loved brands in the seasons
- Working cross functionally to plan and build channel and customer plans
- Day to day line management of 2 reports
Your ingredients for success
To be successful in this role you will be passionate and enthusiastic. You’ll demonstrate great initiative and enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment. The role is suited to someone looking for the opportunity to develop a career in marketing with an ability to build great, collaborative working relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions.
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You will also have:
- Excellent commercial acumen.
- Experience managing multiple, complex projects.
- Track record in delivering agreed performance objectives and demonstrating effective workload management and prioritisation.
- Evidence of good numeracy and analytical skills.
- Budget management and a solid understanding of key financial principles of P&L
- The ability to influence and build great relationships.
- Proven presentation skills to internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of line management and be able to demonstrate good coaching skills.
What you need to know
Advert posting date: 06/08/2026
Advert closing date: 21/08/2026
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.
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