Marketing Manager, Biscuits & Baked Snacks Apply
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Time Type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
Job Requisition ID: R-119809
Job Description Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelez 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:
Leading and influencing teams
Consumer behavior, preferably in the consumer goods sector in a matrix environment
Developing a seamless consumer experience
Managing business objectives beyond brand and budget
Analytics and creativity—a balance of commercial and strategic acumen
Communicating effectively, verbally and in writing, and executive presentation skills
What You Need to Know About This Position: In this role, you will have the opportunity to manage one of the most loved categories of Biscuits & Baked Snacks with iconic brands like Oreo, Barni, Ritz & Belvita. As a part of this role, you will have the chance to lead the team on a broad scope of projects to build your marketing & leadership skills:
Brand Strategies: Develop long-term vision and strategies to grow the portfolio anchored in consumer needs by collaborating with key cross-functional partners.
Drive Brand Plan: Accountable for strengthening demand profile of in-year and long-term plans.
Innovation and Renovation: Build long-term pipeline of consumer-first and customer-centric innovation (format, flavors, beyond the core) & renovation. Proactively lead the team to drive both short- and long-term development, including product development unique for the Saudi Arabia market.
Execution with Excellence: Lead our cross-functional team to deliver end-to-end execution excellence for the business, from commercialization all the way to customer presentation and in-market execution.
Bring Insights and Analysis into Action: Become the champion of consumer needs, proactively monitoring brand performance along with key competitors across the market. Work with partners to test & research ideas, converging to recommendations. Translate insights and white space opportunities to help write business cases for capex.
Business Acumen: Lead the team to profitable growth by leveraging all levers of the P&L.
Brand Building and In-store Activation: Build brand equity of our Biscuits Brands in Saudi by developing remarkable creative & media working in strong collaboration with the brand team.
Cross-functional Leadership: Cultivate a growth mindset and strong working relationships with both internal (Sales, R&D, Supply, Revenue Growth Management, Insights & Analytics, Sales planning, E-commerce) and external partners (agencies, packaging designs).
People Management: Lead, develop, coach, and engage the local Biscuits & Baked Snacks marketing team by building a culture of high performance & strong connections.
More About This Role What Extra Ingredients You Will Bring:
Creative thinking, learning agility, positivity, and resilience when dealing with challenges and complex business problems to solve.
Strong presentation and storytelling skills to inspire internal team members.
Entrepreneurship and proactive mindset, ability to lean in and deliver results autonomously.
Passion for building collaborative teams anchored in positive relationship building.
Growth mindset, can-do attitude, and drive for results.
Education / Certifications: University degree with focus on Business/Marketing is an asset, but not a requirement.
Job Specific Requirements: Minimum of 10 years work experience in a marketing role.
Ability to thrive in and handle ambiguity & fast-paced environment.
Ability to build and deliver against strict timelines.
Ability to work with a cross-functional team and inspire agency partners.
No Relocation support available.
Business Unit Summary Mondelez International in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell, and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo, and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes, Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets, and Trident gum and Halls candy.
Mondelez International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Type Regular Brand & Portfolio Management Marketing
At Mondelez International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local, including many household names such as Oreo, belVita, and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka, and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate, and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum.
Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.
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