Assistant Brand Manager – Hybrid Role

About the role

Join Kraft Heinz as an Assistant Brand Manager in the ‘Away From Home & Export’ team, based in Melbourne with a hybrid work arrangement (3 days in office, 2 days remote). This permanent position offers the chance to grow your career in brand management within a global food and beverage leader.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and collaborate with the National Sales team to build and maintain the annual Sales & Marketing Calendar.
• Translate commercial strategy and customer insights into activation briefs, campaigns and tactical plans.
• Lead major events and trade shows, managing end‑to‑end delivery including budgeting, supplier selection and post‑activity measurement.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams (sales, marketing, category, supply chain, finance, NPD) to ensure seamless activation execution.
• Design account‑specific activations and develop promotional frameworks across digital, trade events, demos, sampling and training.
• Manage the Marketing budget with HO Channel Development and track performance against KPIs such as sales uplift, ROI and engagement.

Required profile

• Experience managing supplier/agency relationships and basic contract discussions.
• Proven ability to track results against KPIs and report campaign outcomes.
• Strong project‑management and organisational skills, capable of handling multi‑stage activations and competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for creating briefs, sell‑ins and presentations.
• Solid stakeholder‑management skills, comfortable coordinating with national sales, category, NPD and external suppliers.
• Commercial awareness of sales uplift, ROI logic and promotional impacts.

What we offer

• Hybrid working flexibility (3 days onsite, 2 days remote).
• Performance‑based variable compensation on top of a competitive base salary.
• Generous parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
• Leave options including purchased, volunteer and LiveWell leave programs.
• Great Place to Work certification in Australia and New Zealand.
• In‑house training programs and corporate discount schemes.