Junior Brand Manager SEA Foods at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small as well as drive category thought leadership and growth, that will make our business win and grow. You will have access to brilliant business leaders and colleagues locally and in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. 

If you are able to:

• Support the SEA marketing manager in the growth agenda of the Foods Business Group across Southern African Countries which include Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique, DRC, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius and Zambia – regular travel into these markets for customer/consumer engagements is a pre-requisite.
• Support the SEA marketing manager to drive growth and brand power of the Royco Master brand, innovation and renovation agenda of Royco in South East Africa.
• Operate at a high level of autonomy optimising our plans to meet the changing requirements of customer, consumer and business needs.
• Support the SEA marketing manager in developing the growth strategy and ensuring execution thereof.

Then this job is for you

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Job Scope:

•  Drive the value & volume led growth agenda on the respective brand by leading Innovations, managing BLG campaigns based on category growth principles
• Focus on incremental future growth opportunities, as well as management of existing core business
• End to end P&L responsibility, including S&OP management
• Budget (BMI) management to be vigorously controlled to ensure full delivery of projects
• Leadership of several Innovation Projects – e.g. development of new mixes / launch into new categories etc.
• Leadership / support of NRM or SC Activity Requests: e.g. introduction of new pack sizes / formats for existing mixes
• Developing & executing Inspiring brand communications in partnership with creative agencies
• Leading Integrated Brand Planning Process (annual IBP)
• Management of SEA digital strategy and ecomm

Key Relationships:

• Build and maintain ongoing relationship with regional BT & ALT, mktg, finance, CMI, R&D, SC, customer and planning teams to secure optimal outputs & deliverables
• Coordination of periodic updates to BT & ALT for cross functional lead alignment
• Enable the coordination of the various sources of CMI data available to ensure holistic insights and sharp needs are developed. 
• Work closely with the Net Revenue Management (NRM) team to assess and operationalise opportunities in partnership with brand and customer teams.

Experiences & Qualifications

• Degree in Marketing, Business and / or Commerce
• A minimum of 2 years in Marketing, Branding and Digital Marketing experience

Skills

• Project leadership and business acumen
• Strong numeracy skills
• Ability to deliver operationally, while thinking ahead of the long-term growth strategy
• Cross-functional relationship management: Agencies, Customer Development, Shopper Marketing, Supply Chain, Consumer Market Insights, Research and Development, Finance Business Partners
• Strong levels of growth and ownership mindset – a self-starter with a winning and competitive mindset
• Bias for action and drive – willingness to get things done with speed & efficiency, and comfortable working independently to deliver agreed goals
• Consumer and customer focus – curiosity, ability to uncover relevant insights and translate these into actionable plans
• Rigour and order – ability to identify important issues and work through complex problems in an accurate and in-depth way.
• A deep seeded passion for exploding the nutrition category and marketing with a purpose with the consumer always top of mind

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.