Media Manager at Kraft Heinz

Job Description

Media Manager

• Opportunity to grow your Marketing management career!

• Flexible work arrangement – 3 days in office, 2 days remote

• Location: Melbourne, Australia

• This is a 12-month fixed term contract Grow Your Marketing Career with Kraft Heinz!

Are you looking to grow your career in Marketing? Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for Media Manager to join our Marketing team on a 12 month fixed term contract based out of Melbourne, Australia.

The Company

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Build integrated media strategies ensuring most effective channels are used across brand and retail media formats.

• Build relationships with internal stakeholders to better translate commercial objectives across sales and marketing into media strategies.

• Lead annual communications planning by collaborating with the broader marketing and sales teams, agency partners and the Kitchen to deliver full year plan.

• Develop ways of working between brand marketers, sales, e Comm, Shopper and agency teams to deliver integrated marketing campaigns.

• Strengthen relationships between KHC, agency partners and key retail media suppliers to drive better commercial outcomes.

• Oversee delivery of Commercial Mix Modelling reporting and provide recommendations on optimizations.

What you'll bring:

• Experienced in building and execution ROI driven integrated media strategies across brand and retail media environments.

• Strong experience in implementing cross functional processes, with high collaboration across external partners.

• Experienced in managing multi-million-dollar media negotiations with external media suppliers.

• Have strong knowledge in Paid Owned and Earned Media (especially online) planning and creative brilliant basics for FMCG Industries

• Have knowledge in digital marketing, integrated communication, marketing communication/creative advertising

• Strong project management skills.

• Effective interpersonal skills to collaborate, influence and sell recommendations internally and externally

• Analytical thinking & the ability to translate strategy into implementation

• Striving for excellence in a highly paced working environment

• 6-10 years of meaningful working experience in Media, Communications, or at an Agency, leading ROI-driven media strategies that combine brand and retail media channels (online + offline). Demonstrable experience translating commercial objectives into media plans.

• Cross‑functional stakeholder management: Proven track record building ways of working across brand, sales, e Comm, Shopper, and agency teams and influencing senior stakeholders.

• Demonstrable track record in FMCG categories.

• Hands-on experience planning/buying in retail media ecosystems

• Managed multi‑million-dollar media budgets and led commercial negotiations and contract agreements with media suppliers.

• Managed agency and supplier relationships end-to-end (briefing, performance management, SLAs, commercial terms).

• Established process frameworks and ways of working across brand marketing, sales, e Comm, shopper, and agency partners.

• Strong program/project management skills with experience delivering complex annual plans and campaign timelines.

• Successful line management experience (at least 1–2 direct reports), including coaching, development and workload prioritization.

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and sell recommendations internally and externally.

Benefits of working with us

• Hybrid Working – Flexibility around when and where you work

• Pay for Performance – industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package

• Parental Leave – paid time off for both primary AND secondary caregivers

• Leave Options – Purchased leave, volunteer leave and Live Well leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter

• Great Place to Work certification in Australia and New Zealand

• In House Training Programs

• Corporate Discount Programs

Ready to make an Impact?

If you're passionate about Marketing, eager to learn, and enjoy working in a team environment, please submit your application soon. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close our job advertisements early.

Location(s)

Freshwater

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.