Temp. Brand Operations Manager (Maternity Cover)

About the role

Nestlé, a food and beverage company with a history of over 150 years, is looking for a Brand Operations Manager to join its Nutrition business in Nairobi on an 8-month fixed-term maternity-cover contract. The role covers brand strategy and execution across East and Horn of Africa, ensuring business continuity and delivery of key brand priorities while the maternity cover is in place. The person must step in quickly, take ownership of the portfolio and work across commercial and cross-functional teams in a science-driven Nutrition environment.

Key responsibilities

• Consumer and brand building: develop and update consumer understanding and the engagement funnel, activate brand essence and manage product and packaging experience, including brand-health and Nutrition, Health and Wellness measures.
• In-store planning: understand the in-store environment and contribute to category, promotional, channel and SKU recommendations, and support the innovation/renovation pipeline.
• Brand and ICP plans: contribute to and execute strong, functionally aligned brand and ICP plans.
• Performance and investment: track brand performance and health, understand the impact of PFME and TTS investments and support disciplined marketing-spend decisions, and use insights to spot risks, opportunities and corrective actions.
• Agency and stakeholder management: partner with communication and activation agencies, and collaborate with Sales, Supply Chain, Technical, R&D, Finance and regional/category marketing.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years' marketing experience.
• Demonstrated experience working across cross-functional teams and executing brand/ICP plans while monitoring performance and managing marketing investment.
• Strong consumer and shopper understanding with practical brand-building capability.
• Previous Nutrition, medical, consumer-healthcare or science-led category exposure is advantageous.
• Ability to learn quickly, work with limited ramp-up time and deliver confidently in a fixed-term cover role.

Required skills

• Project management, negotiation, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Understanding of brand and ICP planning and marketing investment.

The application is made through the recruiting agency Corporate Staffing, which advertises the vacancy on its website.