Senior Brand Experience & Innovation Associate

Nestlé S.A.; Solon, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé S.A. in Solon, Ohio invites a Senior Associate Brand Marketing-Stouffers to drive brand experience across product, packaging, and innovation. You will translate consumer insights into compelling brand actions and collaborate with CX and cross‑functional teams to deliver growth.

The role emphasizes execution of launch readiness, packaging superiority, and strong measurement of brand performance, with opportunities to influence how Nestlé ships value to shoppers and consumers.

Qualifications

• Typically has a University Degree (BA/BS) in Marketing or related business field; or equivalent experience, MBA preferred
• In-depth knowledge of brand building management principles and practices.
• Strong negotiation and relationship building skills; strong research and strategic analysis skills
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Basic financial acumen and understanding of calculating risk/return on business decisions
• Ability to prioritize workload and self-manage projects, handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications

Responsibilities

• Consumer, Category, and Customer (3C) Understanding
• Execute consumer and shopper insight activities to support innovation and in-market delivery, leveraging holistic consumer, category, customer, and competitive understanding to inform business decisions
• Support product and consumer research activities, translating insights into actionable recommendations that inform business reviews and forecasting
• Partner with Manager & Consumer Experience (CX) to translate category and customer understanding into executional outputs
• Execute pipeline delivery activities across front end innovation (FEI), scoping, concept development, and market readiness aligned with defined innovation & renovation strategies
• Execute development of concepts, claims, naming, packaging, and commercialization deliverables that support successful innovation launches, relaunches, and product changes
• Coordinate day-to-day innovation management activities to ensure execution against timelines, deliverables, and business objectives
• Support integration of the innovation pipeline monitoring forecast assumptions, performance metrics, and opportunities to optimize, scale, fix, or swap initiatives
• Own delivery of launch readiness activities, including input for commercial selling materials, launch tools, product related eContent, and customer execution plans in partnership with Commercial Development teams
• Execute and support renovation initiatives across product, formulation, and packaging changes to strengthen product superiority, design to value opportunities, and enhance the consumer experience

Skills

Brand management knowledge

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field

MBA preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Nestlé S.A. in Solon, Ohio invites a Senior Associate Brand Marketing-Stouffers to drive brand experience across product, packaging, and innovation. You will translate consumer insights into compelling brand actions and collaborate with CX and cross‑functional teams to deliver growth.

The role emphasizes execution of launch readiness, packaging superiority, and strong measurement of brand performance, with opportunities to influence how Nestlé ships value to shoppers and consumers.