Assistant Brand Manager in Melbourne

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

Join McCain’s Retail Marketing team and help shape the growth of our market-leading Pizza portfolio across Australia and New Zealand. Working closely with the Senior Brand Manager, you’ll turn portfolio strategy into action, take ownership of defined projects and help deliver brand, commercial and innovation priorities across the full Pizza portfolio.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Support the development and delivery of annual brand plans and the long-term Pizza portfolio strategy.
• Take end-to-end ownership of defined projects, strategic initiatives and selected portfolio platforms.
• Help deliver innovation and renovation projects from concept through to launch, partnering with R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and other stakeholders.
• Use consumer, shopper, category, customer and competitor insights to identify opportunities and support clear recommendations.
• Track portfolio performance across sales, share, distribution, pricing, promotion and profitability, and contribute to forecasting, reporting and P&L activities.
• Partner with Sales, Category and Shopper Marketing to support customer planning and annual range reviews.
• Coordinate assigned campaign, packaging and activation deliverables, including timelines, approvals and budgets.
• Balance brand and portfolio priorities with production capacity, operational requirements and structured business processes.
• Maintain strong alignment across internal teams and agency partners to keep projects moving and deliver high-quality outcomes.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful:

• A degree in Marketing, Business or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in marketing, brand, category or commercial roles, ideally within FMCG or food.
• Strong project management skills, with the organisation and attention to detail to manage multiple priorities, timelines and stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and confidence working with sales, category and financial data to identify trends and support decisions.
• A consumer- and customer-focused mindset, with the ability to turn insights into practical recommendations.
• Clear communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence working cross-functionally across Sales, Category, Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and agency partners.
• A proactive approach to ownership, with the judgement to progress work independently while seeking support when needed.
• Comfort working within structured processes and operational constraints in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly to the manufacturing site, with at least one visit per month and potentially more often depending on project and R&D activity.
• Exposure to new product development, innovation, renovation, range reviews, forecasting, pricing or P&L would be advantageous but is not essential.

About The Team:

You’ll be part of McCain’s Retail Marketing team, reporting to the Senior Brand Manager – McCain More of the Menu. The role works across the entire Pizza portfolio and has no direct reports, but offers meaningful ownership of projects, platforms and strategic initiatives. You’ll collaborate closely with Marketing, Sales, Category, Shopper Marketing, Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement and agency partners.

About McCain:

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person. It helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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