R&D Accelerator Innovation Brand Strategist

R&D Accelerator Innovation Brand Strategist

Lausanne, CH

Lausanne, CH

Position Snapshot

Location: Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland 
In the brand new facilities of the R&D Accelerator 
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100% 
Type of contact: Permanent contract    
Education and/or experience in Marketing, Brand management, Concept validation 
5-10y experience in Innovation, with product launches in FMCG

Accelerating Innovation from Idea to Test launches
Genuine career step and personal development opportunity within passionate enthusiastic teams
Smart office principles providing agile collaboration and stimulating workspaces in the newest facilities
Dynamic international working environment 
Open Innovation with external and internal talents
 

Position Summary

The Nestlé R&D accelerator brings together Nestlé entrepreneurial talents, students, young graduates and start-ups to accelerate the development of innovative products, concepts and system solutions. 
Read more about R&D Accelerator here.

The accelerator based in Lausanne is part of Nestlé’s global R&D Innovation network and located at the company’s fundamental research entity Nestlé Research in Lausanne, which employs around 1’000 people worldwide. Please have a tour of our facilities using this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website.  

We are looking for an Innovation Marketing & Brand Strategist for our Accelerator core team.

Would you like to be part of a team that delivers food and beverage innovations meeting today’s consumers’ needs? Join our team and use your exceptional ability to craft innovative, disruptive concepts and compelling communication addressing the pains and gains of today’s consumers. Help us transforming big consumer problems into solutions, based on newest scientific discoveries or differentiating technologies. Use your leadership skills to challenge the status quo and create amazing product experiences by teaching and coaching diverse teams on marketing, storytelling and communication. Help create new ventures and validate business opportunities.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many career opportunities in business, management or deeper expertise, locally, regionally and globally. 
 

A day in the life of Innovation Marketing & Brand Strategist

• Act as a CMO for venture teams, composed of 4 entrepreneurs, from day one on the consumer problem deep dive until creating revenue with the value proposition


• Go deep in generating new insight with modern digital technologies, to create exciting innovative communication, brand execution & sales playbook for each of the 5-10 ventures per year  


• Identify the best brand fit to the value propositions or create new trademarks for testing out the business opportunity


• Build the Marketing Knowledge for accelerator participants by teaching, training and coaching them on the job 


• Transmit your know how and knowledge to our internal and external start-ups by providing training and coaching on brand building, concept writing, storytelling


• Meet with senior leaders from the Business, operating markets, R&D and other Top Management, to engage and build relations and create your solid internal network 
   

What will make you successful

• Ability to connect quickly and understand the context, relationship builder


• Simple communication, straight to the point


• Courage and creativity to do things differently


• Education and/or experience in Marketing, Brand management, Concept validation 


• 5-10y experience in Innovation, with product launches in FMCG


• Multicategory and multi-brand experience in concept writing, testing and refinement 


• Experience in Digital marketing and e-commerce, growth hacking is a plus


• Fluent in English, any other language is a plus

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.

Position Snapshot

Location: Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland 
In the brand new facilities of the R&D Accelerator 
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100% 
Type of contact: Permanent contract    
Education and/or experience in Marketing, Brand management, Concept validation 
5-10y experience in Innovation, with product launches in FMCG

Accelerating Innovation from Idea to Test launches
Genuine career step and personal development opportunity within passionate enthusiastic teams
Smart office principles providing agile collaboration and stimulating workspaces in the newest facilities
Dynamic international working environment 
Open Innovation with external and internal talents
 

Position Summary

The Nestlé R&D accelerator brings together Nestlé entrepreneurial talents, students, young graduates and start-ups to accelerate the development of innovative products, concepts and system solutions. 
Read more about R&D Accelerator here.

The accelerator based in Lausanne is part of Nestlé’s global R&D Innovation network and located at the company’s fundamental research entity Nestlé Research in Lausanne, which employs around 1’000 people worldwide. Please have a tour of our facilities using this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website.  

We are looking for an Innovation Marketing & Brand Strategist for our Accelerator core team.

Would you like to be part of a team that delivers food and beverage innovations meeting today’s consumers’ needs? Join our team and use your exceptional ability to craft innovative, disruptive concepts and compelling communication addressing the pains and gains of today’s consumers. Help us transforming big consumer problems into solutions, based on newest scientific discoveries or differentiating technologies. Use your leadership skills to challenge the status quo and create amazing product experiences by teaching and coaching diverse teams on marketing, storytelling and communication. Help create new ventures and validate business opportunities.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many career opportunities in business, management or deeper expertise, locally, regionally and globally. 
 

A day in the life of Innovation Marketing & Brand Strategist

• Act as a CMO for venture teams, composed of 4 entrepreneurs, from day one on the consumer problem deep dive until creating revenue with the value proposition


• Go deep in generating new insight with modern digital technologies, to create exciting innovative communication, brand execution & sales playbook for each of the 5-10 ventures per year  


• Identify the best brand fit to the value propositions or create new trademarks for testing out the business opportunity


• Build the Marketing Knowledge for accelerator participants by teaching, training and coaching them on the job 


• Transmit your know how and knowledge to our internal and external start-ups by providing training and coaching on brand building, concept writing, storytelling


• Meet with senior leaders from the Business, operating markets, R&D and other Top Management, to engage and build relations and create your solid internal network 
   

What will make you successful

• Ability to connect quickly and understand the context, relationship builder


• Simple communication, straight to the point


• Courage and creativity to do things differently


• Education and/or experience in Marketing, Brand management, Concept validation 


• 5-10y experience in Innovation, with product launches in FMCG


• Multicategory and multi-brand experience in concept writing, testing and refinement 


• Experience in Digital marketing and e-commerce, growth hacking is a plus


• Fluent in English, any other language is a plus

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.