Position summary


At Nestlé Food, we strive to be a leader in the transition towards nutritious, sustainable, and flavorful food in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Our goal is to make cooking and eating tastier, easier, and more sustainable, with meals that contribute to long-term good health. We aim to connect and bring people together through food while also contributing to a healthier planet.


In the challenging and competitive market environment of the Benelux Food category, we work passionately every day towards our mission, with our fantastic brand portfolio, including Garden Gourmet and MAGGI. Our Garden Gourmet team is dedicated to making plant-based options the best choice for lovers of delicious, healthy, and sustainable food. Garden Gourmet constantly expands its range of plant-based products with new and exciting offerings.


Currently, we are seeking a Trade and Shopper Marketeer for Garden Gourmet in Belgilux. Are you a food enthusiast with a drive to connect people with plant-based food? Is Category Management your passion? Do you want to contribute to the transition towards increased consumption of plant-based proteins? Are you motivated to build strong relationships? Do you dare to think differently, embrace new ideas, and persevere to achieve growth and change? Join us now as a Trade and Shopper Marketeer for Garden Gourmet within the Food Benelux Team.


A day in the life of a Trade & Shopper Marketeer Garden Gourmet

• Making it a priority to build and maintain strategic partnerships with account management for optimal customer relationships with your focus customers. You strengthen and broaden our relationship with trade partners, foster intensive collaboration to implement category vision, shelf vision, and launch plans, and analyse the results of these actions. You help assortment managers in accelerating the protein transition for your customers.
• Taking responsibility for shelf advice, working towards optimal shelf placement of our assortment and of the overall category for your customers.
• Being accountable for the operational follow-up and execution of category plans defined in the commercial planning process. You work in multidisciplinary teams for product launches, in-store activations, and customer projects.
• Acting as an expert in shopper and category knowledge and serving as a knowledge partner to your colleagues and customers. You analyze available data related to sales channels, categories, and purchasing behavior, translating them into sharp insights and growth opportunities.

Together with your category management colleagues, you build the category and channel strategy, utilizing insights into categories, consumers, and shoppers. This strategy accelerates category growth with our customers and provides a competitive advantage for Nestlé.


What will make you successful


Together with the Sales and Commercial Development colleagues, you work on building strong customer relationships. As a true go-getter, you can keep a cool head, have an external perspective, think in solutions, and thrive in cross-functional and commercial collaborations. You are able to think along with our customers, structure and manage projects, make well-founded decisions, and maintain an overview. You will work partly from home and partly at the office in Brussels. On average, once a month, you will travel to our office in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Whether you come to the office by car or public transport, there is ample parking available. Our offices in Amstelveen and Brussels are easily accessible by public transport. It's just a few minutes from the nearest metro stations to the office.


Furthermore, you bring

• Affinity with food and contributing to the protein transition, as well as a drive to connect people through food.
• A bachelor's or master's degree.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in sales, trade marketing, or category management.
• Analytical thinking skills and knowledge of data systems such as Nielsen, GFK.
• A true team player mentality who can bring people together, manage stakeholders, and lead projects to success.
• Experience within FMCG.
• Excellent command of the Dutch, French and English language.

What we offer

• A full-time position
• excellent terms of employment, with elements such as a 13th month, company car, 27 holidays and seniority days and many other extra’s
• a large availability and variety of corporate training and development programs;
• career opportunities, within Belgium as well as international;
• an excellent working environment, high team orientation, high brand and company pride, and motivated and ambitious colleagues.

Respect is at the heart of Nestlé's culture, of which room for differences is an important part. Differences between people who buy our products and in our workplace. We believe it is important that everyone feels welcome and safe at Nestlé, regardless your gender, religion, cultural background, age, disability or who you love. We are convinced that diversity leads to more creativity and innovation and moves our organization forward. That is why we actively work to create a culture and leadership that offers equal opportunities for all!