Overview
Strategic Portfolio & Innovation Manager Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at Mondelēz International
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 resources. In 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:
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 skills—a 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.
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Title: Strategic Portfolio & Innovation Manager
Company: Mondelēz International
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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