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Job Title: Global Fabric Enhancers Assistant Brand Manager - Freshness Innovation - Secondment (9 months)
Location: 100VE
Work-Level: 1C
About the role
It is an exciting time to be part of the Fabric Enhancers team, one of Unilever's most iconic brands with 1.5Bn Eu turnover and used in over 150 million households around the world. Big shifts are happening around us, from the fabrics people wear to the way people wash, to consumer evolving expectations of the laundry category.
Accelerate Comfort/Snuggle growth is our top priority. We are amid a major category transformation aiming to evolve both brands from Fabric Conditioners only to a portfolio of new formats and propositions that better serve our consumers' needs and lifestyle. Our Innovation Strategy is set to increase Category and Brand relevance via desirable, superior and relevant mixes that heighten sensorial appeal and differentiate Comfort/Snuggle from competition and evolve people's relationship with Laundry: from chore to fun and delight.
This vision impacts how we design our products and the need to innovate and introduce superior technology to improve the look, feel and smell of clothes. Moreover, it drives the expansion of Comfort & Snuggle brands into new benefit spaces as well as acceleration of HC Bright Future strategy into our innovation pipeline.
We are looking for a forward thinking and highly motivated talent to join the Global Comfort & Snuggle brand team, and support the biggest part of our portfolio – our "freshness" pillar. This role offers significant professional development with a strong external focus and high interaction with multiple stakeholders. Following successful delivery in this role, the job holder would be well placed to progress their career in their chosen function, or in further innovation or engagement roles.
Key responsibilities:
• Work close to the Global Brand Manager to support the global freshness platform of Comfort/Snuggle, helping to drive growth on the biggest part of the brand portfolio
• Support leading the biggest innovation for Fabric Enhancers (amongst the top biggest innovations for HC), with high exposure to WL3 & 4, with global footprint.
• Work in close collaboration with our central and local cross-functional teams, project-managing multiple networks and workstreams
• End-to-end innovation development, crafting new concepts, developing and qualifying disruptive product mixes that can strongly win across Good/Better/Best tiers of the portfolio.
• Drive value and category development by crafting compelling regimes across different product formats.
• Map opportunities, understand category dynamics, consumer behaviour and trends shaping the segment.
• Be the freshness voice in the category, always with an eye on what is happening externally.
• Build strong relationships and work in collaboration with key markets and stakeholders to drive business priorities and create robust launch plans.
Required skills:
o Experience with innovation and familiarity with concepts development and product testing
o Experience with project management, leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovation projects
o External orientation: ability to learn the category globally and run market/competitive analysis
o Strategic Thinking & Planning: Ability to translate business objectives into actionable marketing strategies and plans that drive consumer demand and achieve measurable results.
o Finance and Business acumen.
o Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Key Relationships:
o BU Marketing teams;
o Global Fabric Enhancers Managers & Directors;
o Port Sunlight R&D and internal functions (CMI, SC, finance, Legal);
o Multi-functional project teams.
Required leadership behaviours:
o High on Agility & Passion for High Performance
o Accountable, passionate, 'Can-do' attitude
o Personal Mastery: resilience and ability to work in a demanding environment
NOTES
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What we offer
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion ).
Location
In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London. This site will house some employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars together with colleagues who are currently located in Lever House in Kingston. We are excited to be creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment. The campus is due to be completed in 2026.
Relocation to the UK
Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.