Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest food and beverage company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.
Our Team in Nestlé Business Services is in charge of delivering world-class business support to our colleagues and clients in Nestlé globally. We are committed to deliver with passion, reliability, innovation, discipline and excellence. Are you ready to join us?
The Production Manager Specialist is responsible for driving the completion and success of end-to-end projects as assigned and commissioned by Markets at Zone and Global levels. This includes structuring, budgeting, execution, evaluation, and closing.
Ensure the day-to-day management of the Project through assignment of work, mobilization of resources, monitoring, and reporting on key dimensions (completion, risks, opportunities, and mitigation plans).
Ensure timely and accurate decision-making aligned with project sponsors’ expectations and tolerances.
Apply quality assurance standards consistently across all deliverables.
Align with project sponsors, members, and stakeholders to define the project implementation plan.
Track and update plans through governance structures to ensure on-time delivery.
Ensure all project outputs have been delivered and validate accomplishment of objectives and business case assumptions.
Capture and document lessons learned.
Coach, support, energize, and engage the Project Team.
Communicate roles and responsibilities clearly.
Give regular performance feedback.
Oversee and manage a team of graphic designers responsible for developing creative assets for internal and external stakeholders.
Review creative outputs to ensure alignment with project goals, Nestlé brand standards, and quality expectations.
Provide creative direction, feedback, and coaching to designers to ensure consistent excellence and innovation.
Coordinate workload distribution, timelines, and design priorities across multiple projects.
Work closely with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Communications, Digital, etc.) to ensure design requirements and expectations are met.
Contribute hands-on design expertise when needed, especially for high-priority or complex visual projects.
Maintain and enforce brand identity guidelines and ensure consistent visual representation across all outputs.
Support the development of templates, visual frameworks, and design standards used across teams and projects.
Ensure consistent application of project management practices across the team.
Build and maintain reference methods, standards, tools, and templates for project management tailored to Nestlé’s business domains.
Deliver training materials, courses, and on-the-job coaching to strengthen internal project management and design capabilities.
Coach and develop junior team members in PMO administration, controlling, monitoring, and creative process management.
Minimum 2 years experience in leading teams, including budget and personnel responsibilities.
Experience in managing cross-functional projects.
Leadership skills and proven ability to develop people.
Experience in graphic design, including managing or mentoring creative teams.
Strong creative judgement with the ability to evaluate and guide visual work .
Ability to manage cultural diversity and collaborate across global teams.
Ability to work within a matrix organization and influence without direct authority.
Strong focus on results and execution.
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category – offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
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