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JOB PURPOSE

• The Power Brand Lead, reporting to the BPWC Demand Creation Head, is the brand custodian. They are responsible for the equity, growth, and social-first strategy of their assigned brand.
• The Power Brand Lead is the driving force behind crafting and executing a holistic brand plan that brings together all demand creation activities, with a strong emphasis on digital and social-first initiatives.
• The Power Brand Lead is responsible for leading integrated brand planning, developing and executing marketing strategies, managing the brand portfolio, and driving multi-year innovation to deliver achieve ambitious business objectives, UBS and brand power.
• The Power Brand Lead is the primary escalation point for all PR, community and reputation management issues related to their brand.
• The Power Brand Lead is also responsible for fostering a strong brand identity, ensuring consistent brand messaging, and championing a social-first approach to consumer engagement.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Planning, managing, and optimising your BMI spend for growth
• Lead the execution of social first marketing plans, ensuring alignment with brand strategy and brand equity.
• Lead an integrated Demand Creation squad to develop and execute social first marketing plans in market for their brand driving profitable growth, market share and brand power.
• Lead quarterly OKR planning and execution for the Power Brand, delivering ambitious targets, tracking progress, and holding teams accountable for achieving results.
• Lead and own the development of best-in-class brand experiences across all touchpoints, building brand connection, driving brand marketing objectives, JTBD and UBS.
• Be the digital pioneer, pushing forward digital and e-commerce execution, working closely with the Demand Creation squad and external agency partners to deliver seamless consumer experiences.
• Act as the primary escalation point for all public relations (PR) and reputation management issues related to assigned brand(s), developing and executing strategies to protect and enhance brand image.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Team Leadership & Management: Proven ability to lead, inspire, and develop high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative, accountable and decisive, results-oriented culture.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, external agencies, and stakeholders at all levels, creating commitment and achieving ambitious business impact.
• Brand Management Leadership: Proven experience in brand management, marketing, or a related field, with a demonstrated track record of success in developing and executing brand strategies, leading teams, holding people accountable, decisive decision making and driving business growth and brand power.
• Social First Marketing Expertise: Deep understanding of social first marketing strategy, tactics, and best practices, including content, influencer, community management, PR/earned, experiential and paid media.
• Financial Management: Strong financial acumen and experience managing budgets, tracking performance, and making data-driven decisions to drive growth.
• Agency Management: Proven ability to effectively manage and collaborate with external agencies, including creative, media, and digital agencies.
• Strategic Thinking & Vision: Ability to develop and articulate a clear and compelling brand vision, translate business objectives into actionable brand strategies, and anticipate future market trends.
• Passion for Beauty: A demonstrable passion for the beauty landscape, its products, keeping up with trends, innovations, and key players, reflecting a genuine enthusiasm for the field.
• Insight: Strong understanding of consumer behaviour, community insights, market trends, shopper insights and competitive dynamics within the relevant industry.
• Product Understanding: An ability to turn deep understanding of the brand formulation and how to bring product superiority to life during the shopper journey to drive desire.

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Additional Desirable Experience

• E-commerce Experience: Experience developing and executing e-commerce strategies, managing online sales channels, and optimising the digital customer experience.
• Data Analytics Skills: Proficiency in using data analytics tools and techniques to measure marketing performance, derive insights, and make data-driven decisions.
• Crisis Communication & Issue Management: Proven ability to anticipate, manage, and mitigate potential reputational risks, handle sensitive media inquiries, and communicate effectively during a crisis.

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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.  If you are able to drive CD performance management and processes (e.g. forecasting, controls) and continuously optimise information and analytics then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Support decisions around CD promotions and work with CD Operations around accruals
• Ensure right level of investments behind channels / categories / activities / customers 
• Partner with CD account teams to manage performance (e.g. changes in forecast) in a standardised way across all accounts & channels, support initiatives to close gaps, intervene where required, mitigate risks and deliver opportunities (attend business review meetings by exception)
• Communicate & manage account targets (growth & Trade Terms Spend (TTS)) 
• Help develop customer investment plans and drive these through to implementation
• Support with management of debtors and customer overdue’s
• Help to resolve key issues around claims and aged deductions
• Engage with the Order to Cash team in the Multi Country Operation to ensure transactional & balance sheet issues are resolved in an optimal way
• Assist and intervene in CD finance controlling processes including accrual reviews, aged deduction management, preparation and posting of judgemental TTS accruals
• Evaluate the feasibility and return on promotional plans
• Analyse and present results on a monthly basis to relevant Business Partner teams with insight
• Support CD operations in daily activities whenever finance expertise is required 
• Analysis pre- and post- evaluation activities and application of learnings in future promotions, results of plan vs actual variances and establishment of learning sjointly with account teams
• Forecasting done by category by customer
• Drive TTS savings agenda
• Monitoring, analysis, control and forecasting of contractual spend

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Experiences & Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years Finance experience (FMCG industry preferred)
• BCom Degree – Financial / Accounting
• CA or CIMA would be highly advantageous

Skills

• Advanced Excel, Strong SAP & Powerpoint skills & knowledge, strong analytical & governance skills 

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• Customer Development (CD) is what we call our Sales organization at Unilever. Customer Development works closely with our customers to pioneer new products, build categories, and best deploy best-in-class retail and shopper capabilities.

JOB PURPOSE

• Lead in Market Plan execution (Aligned to BU Strategy)
• Localises Category Growth Strategy
• Executes strategically aligned Commercial Plan in Market
• Decides Channel/Customer Prioritisation in Market and deploys Budget according.
• Leads Core Capabilities and objective customer engagement (Catman /Shopper / NRM)
• D4C/D4R: executes locally AND integrates Channel & Customer upstream into BU.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Category Growth Strategies

• Localise (Develop and deploy) CGS at channel and customer level,
• Work closely with Brand, CMI, NRM, Shopper Marketing to build Customer sell-in

Innovation

• Define national innovation & launch plan to channels/customers

Monthly innovation tracking: sell-in & out and distribution performance

• D4C/D4R: executes locally AND integrates upstream into BU

Targets and Budgets

• Tracking USG targets and investment to deliver BG strat by channel and customer

Pricing and promotions, Mix

• Own Pricing & Promo strategy
• Own and manage deal
• NRM:  Ownership of L4 and L5

Execution

•  Deploy strategically aligned commercial plan in Market via CBD Deploy launch plans to channels/customers to ensure strength of execution

Implement blueprints via FSA to ensure correct KPI is measured related & linked to COTC.

• Track TDP (total distribution points) on COTC and identify opportunities to be actioned
• Define channel / Customer Execution: (SoS, TDP).
• Shopper / Digital marketing led

Capability

• Deploy core capabilities required to win by Channel and Customer.
• Catman / Shopper / NRM

Experiences & Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in Marketing or Sales in FMCG industry
• BComm degree (preferably in Marketing, Business Administration, Financial majors)
• Strong excel skills.
• Demonstrated cross-functional team.
• Strong demonstrated insight & analytical skills
• Previous experience using Nielsen, PowerBI or customer platforms like Shoprite REX or PnP info hub would be very favourable.

Skills

• Innovation mindset
• Commerce channels execution
• Digital business models
• Commercial Strategy
• Business Acumen / NRM
• Category Growth Management
• Data-Drive Mindset
• Customer and Retailer Understanding