HC UKI Assistant CMI Manager

Job Title: Home Care UKI Assistant CMI Manager

Location: Kingston

Reporting to: CMI Senior Manager HC UKI & Europe Fabric Cleaning

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

Home Care

This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Unilever’s Home Care business, joining the Home Care Europe team.

As a business unit, Home Care Europe is 1.6bn with a clear and ambitious strategy called "Bring it Home!" that drives our vision to become the most admired home care company. This strategy consists of three main pillars: where to play, how to win, and fuel for growth.

We have the strength of some amazing Brands within the BU and look forward to talent like you joining our team to make this journey a memorable one!

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. The CMI will be the crucial lynchpin to spot growth opportunities by channel and identify opportunities to sharpen our UBS 6P levers and drive actions that lead to commercial growth. The focus will be driven by key business needs within the market to ensure insights get acted upon to deliver growth based on deploying innovation and winning with channels/shoppers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand local consumers, culture and social media to identify trends and growth opportunities. 
• Carry the wide responsibility for large transformative initiatives in the market/BU and will partner the market Commercial lead, Marketing and CSP leads
• Deployment of BBM and local innovation and leading innovation design for local market projects.
• Providing high level guidance (not day to day operations) for Social first/demand creation marketing through digital learning and support landing of best practice on content creation.
• Supporting transformational (not day to day) CSP initiatives (eg TDP, PPA, CCVD, etc)
• UBS and performance guidance for the local market only. Integrating multiple data sources to help understand the actions required- across all the marketing 6 PS.
• Connecting with BG Shopper & Channel team and BG Analytics team for support.
• Work with UniOps/D&A to automate standard reporting systems as required at the market level.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Experience

• 3+ year experience
• A team player; accountable, open minded who likes to work in rapid and agile way
• Basic understanding of retail & channel landscape
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Basic understanding of market research
• Interest in human behaviour / psychology
• Able to lead projects
• Basic analytical skills
• Able to ask for help and work with others effectively
• Curiosity and strong attention to detail

Skills

• Think strategically – ability to design, develop and land research with commercial impact
• Opportunity spotting skills, with data deep diving abilities
• Deep Knowledge of Country/Culture and Subcultures - e.g. Gen S, Millenials etc.
• Business Acumen: Deliver insights that improve the innovation mixes and business performance, both on top line and profit/margin
• Analytically minded and numerically oriented.
• Capability to derive insights from integration of different data & connecting the dots
• Experience of leading continuous research agencies (retail and consumer panel, brand tracking).
• Developing output, which is simple, fact-based rather than fact-filled, focusing on storytelling, recommendations and impact to drive commercial growth
• Good facilitation skills to lead delivery across multiple stakeholders
• Good project management skills to focus on outcomes and manage the different parts of a project
• Good understanding of online and offline media landscape

Behaviours

• A positive attitude and can-do attitude despite the changing demands of changing briefs and difficult deadlines.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal are needed to work with different functions and land insights and messages in a compelling way. 
• Ability to collaborate seamless & lead across agency partners and internal Unilever teams
• Tenacity and resilience.
• Curiosity is essential for exploration
• Strong attention to detail.
• Great observation skills

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.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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. 

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

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 are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. 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 at Unilever | Unilever.

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How is Unilever tackling this?

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