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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.  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.

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JOB PURPOSE

• This role assumes ultimately, responsibility for the development and execution of the Media strategies within the specified category overall and will report into the SA Media Manager. 
• To this end, the over-arching output of the role relates to delivering maximum Return on Media Investment (ROMI) through consistent and impactful as the trusted subject matter expert and strategic business partner for the category.  
• Delivering the required impact for the category and for the business will incorporate: 
• Effective and efficient Media planning and investment,  
• Breakthrough innovation and, 
• Functional excellence with a strong balance between digital media and traditional Media expertise and competency sets. 

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Channel Planning:

• Facilitate the conversion of communication channel strategy into media strategy and implementation plans. 
• Deliver, achieve functional excellence and implement functional processes. 

Channel Management:

• Deliver engaging and compelling brand experiences 
• Continuously share best practices with brand teams 
• Develop innovation on projects within the business group. 

Tracking & Reporting:

• Consolidate and synchronise all business group-related reporting 
• Ensure that all reporting adds value to the business 
• Ensure reporting accuracy, on time and in full delivery (OTIF) 

Agency Management:

• Improve performance, partnership, alignment & efficiencies 
• Ensure that media and channel agencies deliver on key KPIs. 
• Ensure media agencies are regularly audited 
• Drive down media costs by controlling inflation against spend 
• Manage media agency fees and incentivise performance 

Innovation & Partnerships:

• Assist in Integrated business planning 
• Assist in driving convergence between digital marketing & e-commerce environment 
• Assist in landing a social-first strategy 

Effectiveness & Efficiency:

• Negotiate and generate consistent media savings / avoided cost 
• Secure best media agency resource plan & the most efficient remuneration 
• Leverage cash flow through extended payment plans 
• Assist in driving ROMI within our media planning & buying 
• Monitor and analyse competitor activity 
• Provide compelling media insights 

Strategic Thinking:

• Pioneer intelligent use of mobile, social, search, gaming & video 
• Develop a paid, owned earned ecosystem 
• Harness the power of data to connect with consumers 
• Deliver media information dashboards 

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in media strategy  
• Relevant experience in planning, media buying or marketing communications  
• Degree in Marketing / Media or Equivalent. 
• Understands advertising and media environment in a South Africa market context (challenges & opportunities), having worked in organisations with such a focus  
• Presents with intermediate-to-high level technical knowledge of media constructs that inform media investment and/or measurement decisions (media types, media planning tools, Media data, etc.) with a specific focus on digital media 
• Demonstrable complex project management experience (multiple stakeholders / high value / multiple categories / varying duration) 
• Must show initiative/tracking/reporting/management, driving and leadership. 

Skills

Online and technology skills:

• Digital knowledge is critical. Be able to demonstrate interest and sound knowledge in subject matter. 
• Advanced Microsoft Excel 
• PowerPoint: With the incorporation of graphs and tables  
• Email and instant messaging; Popular Social media platforms 
• Ability to work with data and translate it into meaningful insights that can further drive relevant category from a media perspective 

​Communication and presentation skills: 

• Expert level English 
• Mid-to-high level ability and demonstrable experience in designing and constructing written or multi-media (ppt) presentations  
• Expert ability and demonstrable experience in verbally presenting complex information, arguments and proposals to peer and senior - level stakeholders to ensure desired outcomes. This includes report - writing and proposal - writing. 
• Generally confident and assertive to establish and maintain required 'trusted advisor' status 
• Able to effectively employ Persuasiveness / Firmness / Formality and other as and when required in both spoken and written communication.  

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.