Trade Marketing Manager

Position Snapshot

Location : La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Company: Nestlé Switzerland
Act. Rate: 80-100% (up to 50% home office)
Type of contact: Permanent contract

What’s in for you

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic trilingual working environment: French, German and English
Attractive additional benefits

Position Summary

As Trade Marketing Manager, you will be the expert in promotion execution of the chocolate category for the full Swiss market. You are the voice of our customers and Key Accounts to our Brand Marketing Team and the key to make brand marketing concept come to reality.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

A Day in the Life of a Trade Marketing Manager

• Ensure optimal promotion execution (display, sales material, instore activities, customer tools) across all channels.
• Give recommendation on promotion execution strategy per category and channel by leveraging the best working promotion mechanisms per channel also identify new promising channels for category development.
• Analyze understanding and vision of shoppers’ buying decisions within the store and give recommendations based on the analysis.
• Lead the field force conference and be the main point of contact for the business unit.
• Define and implement a perfect store vision for each channel/customer and feedback needs to accomplish perfect store vision with Brand Marketing.
• Be responsible for the multimillion execution budget allocation, tracking and implementation.
• Accompany Key Account Managers to customer meetings as an expert for the category and channel vis-à-vis customer counterpart.
• Lead, motivate and hire the category intern.

What will make you successful

• 2-3 years’ experience in trade marketing, brand marketing, category management or sales
• Entrepreneurial and problem-solving mindset
• Project Management skills
• French, German and English (1 language at C1, two languages on B2 level)

Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company. It is present in 187 countries around the world, and its 290,000 employees are committed to Nestlé’s purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Nestlé offers a wide portfolio of products and services for people and their pets throughout their lives. Its more than 2,000 brands range from global icons like Nescafé or Nespresso to local favourites like Ninho. Company performance is driven by its Nutrition, Health and Wellness strategy. Nestlé is based in the Swiss town of Vevey where it was founded more than 150 years ago. Learn more about our Group and reasons to join us on www.nestle.com.