Nestlé Operational Services Worldwide SA
Event Manager
📍 La Tour-de-Peilz
Role and responsibilities
Driving project execution end‑to‑end to ensure every launch is delivered on time, first time right, and fully compliant. Coordinating all required setup activities - including master data, vendor and customer creation, and transportation route configuration - to secure operational readiness. Owning and updating project timelines, identifying critical milestones, and proactively highlighting risks that could impact launch success. Providing clear conclusions on material write‑offs to support informed commercial decisions and reduce obsolescence. Maintaining an accurate and up‑to‑date SKU portfolio from activation through discontinuation in alignment with business needs. Leading continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen first‑time‑right order placement and enhance ways of working.
Team / description
As an Event Manager at Nestlé Business Growth Solutions (BGS), your mission is to drive all steps required to launch new projects or geographical extensions, ensuring they go live on time, first time right, and fully compliant. You will be part of Nestlé’s Business Growth Solutions (BGS) organization, a global operations hub that enables markets and businesses to accelerate speed‑to‑market through efficient trading flows, operational readiness, and end‑to‑end launch execution. You will make a difference by collaborating closely with business managers, supply chain teams, and cross‑functional partners to accelerate speed to market.
Qualifications and Skills
Bringing experience in coordinating cross‑functional projects and managing product lifecycle activities from launch to discontinuation.
Applying strong understanding of master data, supply chain processes, and operational readiness requirements.
Using analytical thinking to identify root causes, challenge existing processes, and drive improvements that enhance launch performance.
Collaborating effectively with business managers, supply chain partners, and stakeholders to ensure transparency and alignment.
Communicating fluently in English; additional languages are an advantage.
Bringing curiosity, empathy, empowerment, wellbeing mindset, learning agility, resourcefulness and performance.