Position Snapshot
Location: Vevey, Switzerland
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent contract
What we offer at Nestlé
Exciting opportunities to develop your career your way; across different brands, businesses, functions, and regions.
Flexible working arrangements - facilitating creativity and collaboration.
A culture of respect, with diversity, equity and inclusion at its core. Learn more here.
A dynamic international environment empowering you to learn, develop and grow.
Don’t hesitate to connect with us during the recruitment process to learn more.
Position Summary
As our Global Creative Excellence Lead, you will help shape the creative future of some of the world’s most iconic brands. This is a role where your ideas, influence, and leadership will raise the standard of creativity across Nestlé globally. You’ll guide teams to think bigger, inspire agencies to deliver their best work, and build a culture where bold ideas thrive. You will also play a central role in transforming how Nestlé creates, evaluates, and celebrates powerful brand communications.
A Day in the Life of a Global Creative Excellence Lead
- Elevate brand building, shaping world‑class creative platforms and accelerating the adoption of above‑market programmes.
- Inspire and upskill our marketers, coaching teams in Big Ideas, social, creator and digital craft, and helping them brief, judge, and champion breakthrough work.
- Energise the global marketing community through workshops and clinics, and by spotlighting standout work and emerging trends.
- Champion bold, award‑worthy creativity, orchestrating ideas that strengthen our reputation for best‑in‑class brand building on the global stage including at Cannes and the Effies.
- Reimagine how we partner with agencies, redesigning our creative agency model and master agreements to build future‑ready, high‑performance partnerships.
- Strengthen accountability and excellence, implementing robust agency evaluation frameworks that motivate and elevate our strongest creative partners.
- Orchestrate Top‑to‑Top creative reviews, coaching SBUs and global agencies in a true “one‑team” approach to raise the creative bar for our biggest brands.
- Drive creative governance and measurement, setting clear KPIs, reviewing campaign performance, capturing learnings, and celebrating the wins that move our brands forward.
What will make you successful
- Extensive senior‑level experience in marketing or creative leadership within global brands or top creative agencies.
- Strong track record shaping creative strategy across digital, video, social, retail, and creator‑led content.
- Confident influencing senior stakeholders and guiding them through high‑stakes creative decisions.
- Proven ability to lead agencies, production partners, and cross‑functional marketing teams.
- Passion for developing people through coaching, training, and creative capability‑building.
- Experience redesigning creative partnership models and performance frameworks.
- Deep understanding of brand‑building and a proven ability to unite teams behind consistent, high‑quality brand experiences.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, with a natural ability to bring teams together behind a shared ambition
Nestlé is committed to the accessibility of its recruitment process. If you require an adaptation during the recruitment process, please do let us know so we can support you effectively. All information will be treated confidentially.
At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win. We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.
