Brand Manager Premium Chocolate (12-months fixed-term contract)

For our Premium Chocolate Category, you will join the Region Africa Levant Marketing Team as a Brand Manager, based at our headquarters in Luxembourg. You will work on projects linked to the new product development strategy, with exposure to both strategic and operational topics. Thanks to your involvement across markets and functions, you will contribute to shaping brand initiatives while gaining a clear view of performance drivers across assigned geographies.

You will lead assigned projects by managing advertising, promotions, research activities, as well as market and cost analyses. Together with your manager, you will define brand targets, sales mix, net sales, gross margin, marketing contribution, volumes, and sales value budgets. Thanks to your analytical approach, you will identify appropriate pricing and product mix choices for the relevant markets, while monitoring KPIs, developing insights, and translating them into action plans.

You will oversee in-store activations by supervising material development and aligning with the sales force and trade marketing teams. You will evaluate the efficiency of ongoing projects, review competitors’ behavior, and assess operating activities at the point of sale. You will also take part in the proposal, implementation, and follow-up of strategic projects such as exploratory studies, uses and habits analyses, insight generation, and brand positioning work, including the sharing of ad hoc surveys to assess brand image, customer behavior, taste, preferences, and promotional outcomes.

You will communicate media plan briefs to the media department and, together with the Region Marketing Manager and Country Trade Marketing Manager, you will evaluate the status of promotions, sponsorships, and co-marketing activities. Thanks to your collaboration with the Legal Department, you will provide the necessary information to support the setup of promotions and sponsorship contracts and ensure alignment with legal requirements related to commercials.

Thanks to your academic background, you have at least a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 2 to 4 years of experience in marketing within the FMCG sector. You will apply an analytical mindset to structure your work and support informed decision-making, while feeling at ease collaborating across functions and engaging with multiple stakeholders.

You will communicate clearly and confidently, both in writing and in presentations, adapting your message to different audiences. Thanks to your ability to work with diverse teams, you contribute to constructive exchanges and smooth collaboration. To support analyses, reporting, and presentations, you will use Excel, Nielsen, and PowerPoint with confidence in your day-to-day work.

You will operate in English with ease in a professional context. French, or any additional language you speak will further support your interactions.

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Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.

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