Assistant Category Strategy Manager, Skin Cleansing

Job Title: Assistant Category Strategy Manager, Skin Cleansing

Location: 100VE

This is an open job posting for a Skin Cleansing Assistant Category Strategy Manager, based in London.

Personal Care (PC) is a leading business with much loved skin cleansing, deodorants and oral care brands including Dove, Rexona, Lux, Axe, Lifebuoy and Pepsodent. With more than 1 billion people using PC products every day, we have an opportunity to use our scale for good so that people and the planet can thrive together.

Unilever Skin Cleansing is the biggest PC category, and we operate with 5 core brands in our portfolio – Dove, Lux, Lifebuoy, DM+C and Axe. With a strong footprint globally our category portfolio is present in all BUs, making us the global market leader with over 20% share worldwide

JOB PURPOSE

The role will report to the Skin Cleansing (SCL) Category Strategy Manager and will support the Global Category Leads on multiple category agendas, working closely with Global Brand leads & Cross Functional Leads. This is a high visibility role working hand in hand with senior stakeholders, learning from the category leadership team directly – enabling excellent opportunity to build category fundamentals, develop strategic competencies and leadership qualities.

The Strategy Team works at the heart of the SCL Category, globally, and plays a key role in the category marketing community working on the design, development and execution of long-term category strategic plans, Innovation management, and objectives to drive competitive, consistent, profitable growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role is the partner for all SCL category initiatives, inputs and general consultation from both global and local teams across all functions. The successful applicant will support, anchor and lead key strategic workstreams:

· Support Category Strategy, translating the PC strategy into Skin Cleansing and deeply understanding the future demand spaces.

· Lead Category Innovation Management:

· End to End innovation cycle governance of Global projects for Skin Cleansing.

· Ownership of category Innovation Roadmap - Linking with Global and Local teams to ensure plans are always up to date and sufficient against Category Strategy.

· Support in crafting and operationalising of the Category Building pillars.

· Performance analysis and reporting, category reviews, and support on leadership team meetings

ALL ABOUT YOU

The role encompasses multiple different aspects and the need to constantly juggle between ‘developing STRATEGIC vision’ & ‘CRAFTING Growth Agenda’ to Process Governance– requiring high level of agility and shift in mindset.

Must Have:

· Strong Analytical skill and understanding of P&L, Retail, Consumer and Brand Metrics

· Experience in leading/managing process - Ability to manage conflicting priorities and requirements from multiple stakeholders – in different time zones

· Skill in ‘crafting’ strategic, business documents/presentations – strong story telling

· Proficiency in MS Office Suit (esp. powerpoint and Excel) - comfortable to operate with large amount of data. Ability to see through trends and patterns are important skill sets.

Desirable:

· Strong personal mastery and self-discipline with passion for driving the category culture. Requires interpersonal Skill with experience of managing senior stakeholders and large cross functional teams in multiple time zones

· Flexibility & Adaptability - Short turnaround times (often with changing priorities) to meet deadlines for big workstreams; be able to anticipate changes while meeting deadlines.

· End to end knowledge of Innovation process & validation requirement.

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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