Strategic Portfolio & Innovation Manager

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.

Working with cross-functional and regional teams you implement a portfolio strategy that is aligned with the brand vision to drive sustainable growth. 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 support the brand portfolio strategy and priorities to enable consumer-centric brand portfolio growth. You will develop annual plans setting objectives and allocating addition you will offer recommendations for integrated commercial plans develop and execute marketing plans that deliver on revenue and profit forecasts and share objectives. 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:

• Consumer behavior preferably in the consumer goods sector in matrix environment
• Developing a seamless consumer experience
• Managing business objectives beyond brand and budget
• Analytics and creativitya balance of commercial and strategic acumen
• Leading and influencing teams
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and executive presentation skills
• Markets with diverse economic environments a distinct advantage

Purpose:

The successful candidate will work in partnership with Category Brand team as well as the Insights & Analytics team to develop and lead the innovation strategy and priorities for the Chocolate Category in SSA based on deep consumer insights brand strategy and positioning to ensure future growth of the brand/category across markets.

Working alongside cross functional teams you will be responsible for executing commercial innovation plans from idea to execution ensuring they are integrated into the broader marketing communication plans and campaigns.

You will be responsible for the delivery of innovation and initiatives that are both incremental and profitable to support growth for the brand and category and for leading the performance tracking against key performance indicators post-launch.

What you will bring:

The following experience and knowledge as well as a desire to drive your future and accelerate your career:

• Marketing ideally in a matrix environment in the Consumer goods industry

• Developing and managing product Innovation strategy and pipelines at a cross-country level

• Ability to build strong working relationships working & collaborating effectively with other marketing disciplines and cross-functional teams

• Stakeholder management

• Analytical commercial and creative skillsa balance of creative commercial and strategic acumen

• Strong analytical skills to interpret data to further understand our consumers shoppers and market trends in order to identify growth opportunities.

• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and executive presentation skills

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Category Marketing Director the Portfolio Strategy & Innovation Manager Chocolate SAROA is required to:

Lead the development of the Brand Innovation Strategies and 3-year Innovation funnel

• Lead Innovation projects including value enhancement and new product development (NPD) from ideation through to execution ensuring launches are achieved within agreed timelines

• Idea to market best in class project management including realistic and timely critical path management as well as conflict resolution

• Analyse data to identify business opportunities and propose portfolio improvements to increase brand efficiency and focus

• Identify and understand key market trends

• Liaise and manage key stakeholders to ensure project buy-in whilst unpacking cost capacity capability and complexity of innovation projects

• Deliver Net Revenue Volume GP% targets; assess required marketing investment; and assess and track incrementality on projects executed.

• Complete post-launch evaluation in partnership with the Brand team and ensure monitoring the performance against key performance indicators

• Stakeholder management and the ability to influence key stakeholders throughout the Innovation process.

Key Stakeholders include:

• Brand Management teams

• Project Commercialization Managers

• Category Planning and Activation / Trade Marketing teams

• Category Development teams

• Research & Development

• Supply Chain

• Procurement

• National and Key Account Managers

Key Criteria required:

• Tertiary Qualification in Marketing or related field of study

• Minimum 6 years experience within Marketing

• Minimum of 2 years as the Innovation / Portfolio Manager / Senior Brand Manager or in a similar role (Marketing Brand and/or Project Management)

• Proven experience in Marketing/Brand strategy & and Innovation management

• Proven experience leading and managing Innovation projects from end-to-end

• Project management experience

• Effective stakeholder management skills

• Self-motivated

• Bigger picture thinker

• Resilience and ability to adapt in forever changing business contexts

• Strong communication skills

• Team player with strong leadership skills

Business Unit Summary

Mondelēz Internationals Sub Saharan Africa Business Unit is made up of three key focus areas namely Southern Africa West Africa and the Rest of Africa Markets. The Business Unit is home to approximately 1000 Makers and Bakers who strive to bring only the best quality and loved brands to our consumers. Mondelēz International in Sub Saharan Africa is proud to house global legacy brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk Oreo Halls and Bournvita together with local jewels such as Cadbury LunchBar Chappies TomTom and Dentyne. The Business Units Markets have consistently been awarded Top Employer certification and has been recognised as a Top Employer in Africa.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation or preference gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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