Marketing Operations Excellence Executive (12 months)

Job Title: Marketing Operations Excellence Executive (12 months)

Location: Malaysia

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.  

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €2.5bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growth objectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to operators across 22 Multi Country Organizations (MCOs) in 67 countries.  We carry a portfolio of local and international brands-- Knorr Professional, Lady’s Choice, Hellmann’s, and The Vegetarian Butcher.

Joining Unilever’s Marketing team, this role will be important to drive excellent executions for all marketing related operations specially around innovation management which includes artwork development & project tracking, ensuring all the roll-out plans and processes are met to achieve On Time and In Full execution to reach consumers.  

This role will require the individual to be independent, organized, able to coordinate with multiple stakeholders from different cross functions. Coordination, organization and administrative skills are critical for this role to ensure the excellent roll-out of product and innovation development plans.  

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE 

You will provide support for the Category Marketing Team at UFS for Malysia and Singapore.

Innovation and renovation project development and management will be the key daily deliverables with additional stretch support for ad hoc projects within marketing for your own holistic exposure and learning to ensure your development and engagement needs are simultaneously fulfilled in this role.

Key Responsibilities: Innovation & Rennovation projects- overall UFS portfolio:

• Overall project awareness, management and tracking:

  • Work closely with category marketing team who will lead discussion with cross functional stakeholders for project development and initiation, to gain a holistic insight into the overall project and to learn and develop acumen around innovation development processes.

• Code Creation & Extensions:

  • Get hands on with the internal Unilever software called Neco to create and manage projects.

  • Work with within and cross country supply chain and R&D teams to manage inputs around material lists, core data (GTIN) and product hierarchies to ensure code are accurately raise and tracked in a timely manner.

  • Escalate and work independent with the support and operations teams to resolve any technical issues within the process of system software.

• AW development and creation:

  • Project debrief and subsequent brief development for the agencies.

  • Work with key supply chain and R&D POCs for inputs in the PMD.

  • Work with Unilever AWE (artwork excellence) team for agency coordination.

  • Help raise io’s and PO’s within the internal Unileber PPM and COUPA systems to share with AWE and agency teams.

  • Work directly and independently internally to gain all relevant inputs from cross-functional teams for content in artworks.

  • Work directly and independently externally to develop and revise AWs with the agencies.

  • Ensure AW development, BLUE system uploads and approvals and release to printers are done in a timely manner.

• Sample shipment (To and from):

  • Work closely with cross market category and supply chain teams for procurement and delivery of key product samples as a core part of the innovation development process.

• List price maintenance:

  • Ensure you work closely with category, business ops and supply chain to implement and record new pricing into the system.

• Additional learning opportunities:

  • To ensure that your experience is as rewarding, holistic and enjoyable as possible, you will be given the opportunities to engage in general marketing projects and conversations around data analysis, portfolio management, campaign development and management, digital and ai. To ensure that you are trained into becoming a top notch holistic marketing resource. These will not be tracked formally nor KPI driven, but highly encouraged for your own growth and learning.

  • You will be given the proper guidance and coaching on a personal and professional level to help groom you into a highly employable resource anytime anywhere and help shape your own adventure and career within Unileber regardless of  BU or function.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED 

Experiences, skills & Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree.  

• 1 to 2 years experience in brand/product management/marketing, preferably in the consumer goods industry.    

• Basic appreciation of Marketing fundamentals and processes.  

• High agility to learn and adapt, you bring the attitude, we will bring in the expertise and opportunities to groom and teach you.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).

• Openness in facing business challenges.

• Ability to self organize.

• Enjoy and ability to work and multitask in a fast-paced environment.

• Good cross-functional stakeholder communication skills.

• Available to commence and to start immediately.

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.

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.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.