Senior Brand Manager Local Heritage

Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 160 countries around the world. We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are.

Join us on our mission to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.

In Marketing, you’ll be the ones who first capture our consumers’ imaginations, giving them a tantalizing taste of our brands. You’ll work to help our brands stay relevant to consumers by developing and activating brand plans that capture their imagination, passion and loyalty.

Role overview

Lead, develop and represent Local Heritage brands (focus on Master Brand Opavia) on local level. Ensure the strategic, execution and tactical aspects to deliver volume, net revenue, gross margin, market share and selected image attributes in both countries CZ/SK. Furthermore, be an active member of country/regional category team, and create and share best practices.

Main responsibilities:

• Develop a marketing strategy together with Associate Marketing Director, in line with the MEU objectives in order to ensure a development of Local Heritage portfolio. Focus on Master Brand Opavia
• Independently convert the agreed category marketing strategy into the portfolio related activities
• Develop consumer, competition & market insight via regular observation and analysis of the market and competitors, early recognition of changing market situations and recommendation of appropriate marketing action
• Manage launch of New Product Development on the market.
• Monitor project budget, timings and control project performance for brand / all category brands
• Propose the budget and forecast for brand / all category brands in due time, based on the relevant documents: Volume (Local Heritage portfolio) –sales forecast, Market shares-Advertising and promotion plan, Distribution, Market research, Changes, improvements on adaptations required on the product (recipe, quality, packaging, etc.)
• Monitor profitability of Local Heritage portfolio
• Apply Mdlz policies and procedures in Local Heritage brand management
• Effectively manage the direct report (1 Junior Brand Manager) in terms of coaching & motivation
• Know the ethical and legal compliance responsibilities of the position; lead ethically and model compliant behaviour; maintain an environment where employees can speak up without fear of retaliation; ensure employees in area of responsibility understand the compliance responsibilities of their jobs and actively participate in the compliance program.

We offer a highly competitive salary plus annual bonus payment based on your performance.
We also offer top attractive benefits, such as:

• Yearly salary review based on performance
• Supplementary pension fund
• Flexible working hours
• Home office
• Extra holidays
• Paid days off (childbirth, wedding, etc.)
• Sick days
• Sick leave allowance
• Electronic meal voucher card
• Free drinks and company products in the workplace
• Company products with discount to please your family members and friends
• Contribution to well-being (sports, relax, culture, travelling, etc.) via Cafeteria
• Life insurance
• Company parties and team events
• International environment and further career progression
• Constant virtual and F2F learning opportunities

In case of selected positions also:

• Company notebook for private use
• Company car for private use
• Company cell phone for private use