About the Role
Lead the development of breakthrough creative campaigns across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of globally recognised brands. Shape regional and global brand communications, bringing consumer-first, platform-led ideas to life through the Paid, Earned, Shared, Owned + Commerce (PESO+C) framework. This is a highly visible leadership role with significant influence across the business, partnering closely with Regional Brand, Media and PR teams, as well as global stakeholders and agency partners to create world-class brand experiences that drive growth, build relevance and elevate creative excellence. Support the VP Brand & Content in the global stewardship of the OEFY portfolio, shaping the future of these iconic brands and elevating their creativity and performance.
Responsibilities
- Develop breakthrough, consumer-first campaigns and brand experiences across Orbit, Extra, Freedent and Yida, aligned to regional and global strategies and delivered through the PESO+C framework.
- Champion creative excellence, driving best-in-class work that delivers business growth from brief through to market execution.
- Lead and coordinate internal teams, agencies and external partners to deliver integrated, end-to-end brand communications.
- Own the creative development process, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and with efficient production solutions.
- Support regional and global growth objectives through strategically aligned brand communications and integrated campaign planning.
- Define PESO content requirements and establish clear ownership, accountability and delivery processes.
- Partner across functions and markets to ensure ideas scale effectively across geographies, audiences, platforms and channels.
- Support global brand stewardship activities, including leadership engagement forums and key stakeholder communications.
- Drive the development of creative briefs and engagement strategies that enable award-worthy, industry-leading work.
- Manage agency and partner performance, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, scope and commercial commitments.
- Partner with Media teams to measure campaign effectiveness, optimise performance and maximise ROI.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure brand safety, compliance and timely content approvals.
- Leverage consumer insights and content testing to maximise campaign effectiveness and audience impact.
- Act as a guardian of brand equity, ensuring all communications consistently align with brand guidelines and standards.
Requirements
- Significant marketing leadership experience, including extensive expertise in brand building, strategic marketing and communications.
- Proven track record delivering impactful content, campaigns and brand platforms for leading consumer brands.
- Experience working across multiple markets, with strong cross-cultural awareness and a global mindset.
- Demonstrated ability to build influential relationships across senior stakeholders, cross-functional teams and agency partners.
- Strong project and portfolio management skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities and deliver ambitious outcomes.
- Creative, commercially astute and relentlessly driven, with the curiosity, resilience and executional excellence to turn bold ideas into impactful results.
- Inspiring leader with experience driving transformational change and building capability across teams and markets.
- Proven ability to influence and lead without direct authority; people management experience is advantageous.
- Agency, in-house agency and/or client-side marketing experience preferred.
Location
- Paddington
Benefits
- Company bonus
About the Company
- At Mars Snacking, we’re redefining how we build some of the world’s most iconic brands.
- Guided by our One Demand Vision, we create meaningful consumer connections by delivering the right experience, at the right time, through the right channels.
- By combining creativity, consumer insight and technology, we drive sustainable growth while building brands that people love today and for generations to come.
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
