Food Manager

Nestle; Singapore; Remote; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé Singapore (Nestle Professional) is seeking a Food Manager to lead the commercial food & beverage portfolio with a strong focus on profitable growth in Out of Home channels. The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, strategy development, and ensuring quality across the NQMS processes.

You will drive dessert solutions, savory flavors, and new PBMS categories, while aligning with diverse distribution partners and training needs across restaurants, QSR, and street vendors.

Qualifications

• Clear communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and market understanding.
• Experience in marketing management and category leadership.
• Ability to navigate competitive environments and customer management.
• Proven track record in channel development and consumer insights.
• Financial literacy and business acumen.
• Project management across cross-functional teams.
• 8+ years Commercial Experience in marketing and sales preferably in a service and/or Out of home environment.

Responsibilities

• Flawless execution of the value chain to drive sustainable profitable growth.
• Develops the business plan for brand and product portfolio and leads cross-functional execution.
• Ensures quality processes compliance within the NQMS framework.
• Formulates and reviews the overall commercial food & beverage strategy across marketing, operations, sales, QA.
• Manages distribution to ensure right-fit channels and partner training.
• Drives innovation and renovation to meet consumer and operator needs.
• Strengthens brand presence through effective communications and activations.
• Builds and develops the Food team to handle growing portfolio complexity.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Marketing management

Category expertise

Competitive environment

Customer management

Channel development

Consumer research

Financial understanding

Project management

Experience: 8+ years

Job description

Position Snapshot

• Location: Singapore, Eightrium

• Company: Nestlé Singapore (Nestle Professional)

• Permanent – Full Time

• 8+ years Commercial Experience in marketing and sales preferably in a service and/or Out of home environment

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.

A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

The Food Manager is responsible to/for:

1. Effective and efficient management of NP SG food business via strong commercial strategy, ensuring flawless execution along the value chain to drive long term sustainable profitable growth.

2. Develops the overall business plan for brand and product portfolio and successfully drives execution and results by leading and coordinating cross functional teams and using Nestlé in the Market shared services

3. To ensure compliance/ provide support to all quality related activities identified in the NQMS Process Descriptions and Support Process Descriptions

A day in the life of a Food Manager...

Strategy & Execution:

• Formulate, implement and review overall commercial food & beverage strategy (marketing, operations, sales, technical & QA) to strengthen NP's leadership position in the out-of-home business thru driving Dessert Solutions, Savory Flavor Solutions and Savory Meal Complements for food.

• In addition to develop the portfolio and launch plan for the new to launch frozen PBMS category.

2. Distribution & Availability:

• Ensure targeted "right-fit" distribution of products and systems in the relevant channels.

• Manage the complex Channel dynamic whit different part of the portfolio being relevant to different channels (E.g. Restaurants vs Quick service vs Street) and the different support and training needs for the different distribuiton partner

3. Innovation & Renovation:

Managing a sustainable pipeline of Innovation and renovation of products to meet both consumers' and operators' needs, in order to accelerate growth and meeting targeted OP1 levels.

4. Brand Presence/Visibility & Consumption Generation:

• Ensure effective execution of brand communications for relevant channels to drive brand visibility, awareness and subsequently purchase/ repeat. Driving consumption via relevant and innovative marketing activations via one brand plan. For food, activities will be focused on trade as key users are chefs.

• Ensure close crossfunctional collaboration with the CCSD to ensure a well structured Activity calendar and flawless execution.

5. People Development :

• Build up talent for brand / commercial management in the Food business in MYSG. Ensure strong work values and discipline and alignment to deliver high performance. Expand the food team to cope with the growing portfolio complexity

• Consistently challenge and motivate the team to be confident to find, propose and try new ideas and concepts. Develop an entreprenourial mindset to win in a fast changing Out of Home environment

What Will Make You Successful...

• Communication and presentation (written and verbal)

• Analytical

• Marketing management

• Category expertise

• Competitive environment

• Customer management

• Channel development

• Consumer research

• Financial understanding

• Project management (to manage the new to launch PBMS portfolio with close involvement in the manufacturing in MY)

• 8+ years Commercial Experience in marketing and sales preferably in a service and/or Out of home environment