Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow.
At Nestl USA, we?re all working towards the same goal ? to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity ? and responsibility ? to be there for every moment in our consumers? lives.
Joining Nestl means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.
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As Sr Associate, Product Experience (PX), Starbucks, you help shape how the brand is experienced through product, packaging, innovation, and value delivery. By leveraging holistic consumer, category, and competitive understanding, you support innovation and renovation initiatives, product and packaging superiority efforts, and launch execution that strengthen the brand across first and second moments of truth. Working closely with both the Masterbrand Consumer Experience (CX) team, cross-functional partners, you help ensure brand experiences, product performance, and business objectives come together to deliver meaningful consumer impact and sustainable growth.
Working on Starbucks is a rare opportunity to help shape one of the world\'s most iconic and culturally relevant brands. As part of the Starbucks-Nestl Global Coffee Alliance, employees gain firsthand experience operating at the intersection of brand stewardship, joint business partnership, innovation, and enterprise leadership, developing skills that are highly transferable and difficult to acquire in traditional brand management roles.
Key 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.
Innovation & Renovation
- Lead pipeline delivery activities across front end innovation (FEI), scoping, concept development, and market readiness aligned with defined innovation & renovation strategies.
- Lead development of concepts, claims, naming, packaging, and commercialization deliverables that support successful innovation launches, relaunches, and product changes.
- Manage 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.
Unrivaled Superiority for Product & Packaging
- Lead the development and execution of packaging and product experience initiatives aligned to brand ensuring a superior consumer experience across key moments of truth.
- Implement packaging design, execute visual identity application, product claims, and production delivery activities, partnering with cross-functional teams to bring product and packaging experiences to market.
- Partner with Legal, Regulatory, R&D, Supply Chain, and Brand teams to support claims development, compliance processes, feasibility assessments, and execution readiness, ensuring packaging meets regulatory requirements and product truth standards.
- Support delivery of Smart Label and build consumer trust and transparency with packaging-driven to deliver brand credibility while ensuring alignment across stakeholders and execution plans.
Unbeatable Value, Unmissable Visibility
- Support the strategy of pricing, promotion, assortment, and portfolio, partnering with Commercial Development and Finance to deliver defined value objectives and business priorities.
- Provide input and execute deliverables supporting I&R integration into shopper plans (retailer media).
- Own digital shelf execution, including PDP content, product information, and digital asset deployment, ensuring a consistent and compelling product experience across eCommerce platforms.
Business Management
- Spearhead monthly business reviews (MBP/MBR) for marketing, enterprise forecasting, and annual planning processes by preparing innovation inputs, new item performance updates, and recommendations that inform business decisions.
- Own marketing forecasting inputs, including consumption data, new item assumptions, performance updates, and business changes, helping translate results into actionable recommendations.
- Track and report on brand performance, innovation priorities, and key initiatives, ensuring leaders have visibility to performance trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Prepare and analyze assessments, translating innovation, product, and business performance data into actionable insights and priorities.
- Execute tracking and reporting of innovation pipeline performance, forecast assumptions, business changes, and key initiatives to support business planning processes.
- Support the development of the Brand Situation Analysis, Brand Plan, and MBS, partnering across functions to coordinate inputs, prepare data, and identify growth opportunities including innovation.
Qualifications / Certifications
- University Degree (BA/BS) in Marketing or related business field
- MBA preferred
- In-depth knowledge of brand building management principles and practices.
- Strong negotiation and relationship building skills
- Strong research and strategic analysis skills
- Ability to work independently, autonomously and adapt quickly to change to deliver results
- Must have strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication (both 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 strict deadlines.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications
Critical Experiences
- At least 3 -5 years of work experience in brand or product management, marketing, or a related field
- Proven track record in developing and executing brand strategy.
- Demonstrated ability and initiative to drive cross-functional teams to deliver on collective brand goals.
- Experience leveraging data, research and trends to generate insights to understand consumer behavior (IRI or Nielsen knowledge strongly recommended).
- Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with the ability to develop creative/non-traditional solutions for challenging, undefined problems.
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Salary:$133,345.26 to$185,831.95 per year
Bonus Eligibility:Yes
Thepay rangeprovided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.
Nestl offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at
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