Brand Manager

Nestle; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous pension scheme – up to 12%

12 flexible days on top of 25-day

2 paid volunteering days

Job summary

Nestlé Nutrition and Health seeks a Brand Manager on a 6-month FTC for the Enteral Nutrition and oral nutritional supplements portfolio. Hybrid role based near Gatwick, with 2 days in the office weekly; you will shape brand strategy and translate insights into clear, evidence-led plans.

You will work across Sales, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and international teams to drive growth, optimise budgets, and deliver launches that meet healthcare professional needs.

Qualifications

• Brand management: Experience delivering brand plans in a marketing environment.
• Commercial capability: Knowledge of profit-and-loss principles, budget management, routes to market and commercial propositions.
• Stakeholder influence: Demonstrated capability in influencing and presenting to senior stakeholders, customers, agencies and cross-functional teams.
• Project ownership: Ability to lead sizeable projects or workstreams, manage competing priorities and maintain progress with limited day-to-day direction.
• Healthcare marketing or similar B2B2C marketing experience
• Experience working with Sales teams to provide strategic direction, effective commercial tools and materials
• Experience partnering with Digital teams to develop and execute effective omnichannel campaigns across the customer journey

Responsibilities

• Shape medium- and long-term plans for the Enteral Nutrition and oral nutritional supplements portfolio, ensuring activity supports wider business ambitions.
• Create an annual brand plan that integrates digital, sales force and cross-functional activity and is ready to activate.
• Use brand performance, budget and profit-and-loss insight to prioritise investment, track outcomes and adapt plans when the market changes.
• Create launch plans that build momentum for new products and evaluate performance against objectives.
• Build understanding of the UK Medical Nutrition environment to inform decisions.
• Connect Sales, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Corporate Affairs, Legal and international teams to progress shared priorities.

Skills

Brand management

Commercial capability

Stakeholder influence

Project ownership

Healthcare marketing

Sales collaboration

Digital collaboration

Job description

Business Area: Medical Nutrition

Location: Gatwick (hybrid, minimum 2 days a week in the office)

Salary : Up to £55,000 depending on experience – 6 month FTC

Some of our other fantastic benefits

• Private health care
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestlé
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
• 2 paid volunteering days

Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you. We are always open to discussing individuals’ flexible working needs, so please don’t let this stop you from applying.

About Us

Nestlé Nutrition and Health brings together nutrition, science and insight to support people’s health and quality of life. Within Medical Nutrition, our marketing teams build brands and solutions that respond to the needs of healthcare professionals, customers and patients in a changing market.

As Brand Manager on a 6 month fixed term contract for the Enteral Nutrition and oral nutritional supplements portfolio, you will help shape brand strategy and turn it into clear, evidence-led plans. You will connect market insight, commercial priorities and cross-functional expertise to strengthen brand performance and support Nestlé Nutrition and Health’s long-term ambitions.

Your Impact

• Brand strategy: Shape medium- and long-term plans for the Enteral Nutrition and oral nutritional supplements portfolio, ensuring activity supports wider business ambitions.
• Integrated planning: Bring digital, sales force and cross-functional activity together in an annual brand plan that is clear, evidence-led and ready to activate.
• Commercial performance: Use brand performance, budget and profit-and-loss insight to prioritise investment, track outcomes and adapt plans when the market changes.
• Portfolio growth: Create launch plans that build momentum for new products, support effective execution and evaluate performance against agreed objectives.
• Market insight: Build understanding of the UK Medical Nutrition environment, including healthcare professional behaviour, competitors and emerging opportunities, to inform decisions.
• Cross-functional delivery: Connect colleagues across Sales, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Affairs, Legal and international marketing teams, alongside agency partners, to progress shared priorities.

Your Ingredients for Success

You will combine brand and commercial thinking with the ability to bring people together around clear priorities. You will be comfortable turning insight into action, communicating with different audiences and owning substantial workstreams with appropriate support.

Essential

• Brand management: Experience of developing and delivering brand plans in a marketing environment.
• Commercial capability: Knowledge of profit-and-loss principles, budget management, routes to market and commercial propositions.
• Stakeholder influence: Demonstrated capability in influencing and presenting to senior stakeholders, customers, agencies and cross-functional teams.
• Project ownership: Ability to lead sizeable projects or workstreams, manage competing priorities and maintain progress with limited day-to-day direction.
• Healthcare marketing or similar B2B2C marketing experience
• Experience working with Sales teams to provide strategic direction, effective commercial tools and materials
• Experience partnering with Digital teams to develop and execute effective omnichannel campaigns across the customer journey

Desirable

• Medical Nutrition: Experience of Medical Nutrition or another regulated healthcare category.
• Healthcare professionals: Experience of developing communications or activity for healthcare professional audiences.
• Sales perspective: Experience in a relevant sales role, with an interest in applying that customer and commercial understanding within marketing.
• Innovation: Knowledge of structured innovation or new product development processes.
• Nestlé context: Exposure to Nestlé brand-building, innovation or organisational frameworks would be helpful, but is not required.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance marketing effectiveness, creativity and ways of working

What You Need to Know

Closing date: Friday 13th November

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