Category leader – Personal care

Main Job Purpose

Category leader of personal care will play a key and strategic role in the achievement of personal care including skin cleansing and hair care category, which is the biggest division for Unilever Korea. This role reports to ULK head of marketing and play a strategic role in building Unilever core personal care brand in highly competitive market and opening new white space for Unilever Korea. Furthermore, this position will be a key hub to provide insights across local and Unilever International regions so that she/he can be crucial person in the know under personal care business group. Main brands are Dove, Clear and Sunsilk and there are many future core brands and new brands coming from global, on top of those, this role should lead new brand/product development process in terms of personal care as Korea is UI innovation engine.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and marketing plan for personal care aligned with global strategy
• Manage category issues and opportunities and connect this with category and brand growth
• Manage personal care brands and category P&L, understand drivers and identify issues, challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable growth
• Be category guardian for responsible brands to drive brand growth in right way
• Initiate new product development thru finding white space insights from market, consumer and customer and propose to LT, cross-functional and global brand team
• Lead all NPD related briefing and give input related to NPD to innovation team
• Plan and execute brand marketing plan and campaign
• Review effectiveness / outcomes of campaigns and monitor the performance
• Report issues/problems and come up with solutions/recommendations to improve effectiveness based on performance monitoring
• Co work with innovation team to deliver new product on time
• Collaborate with agencies and cross functional teams to deliver on-time brand/product launch
• Develop and support integrated communication plan and track performance
• Manage financial status (Sales/Profit/A&P etc) for skin care and address any identified or potential issue

Experience required

ESSENTIAL

-8-12 years of marketing experience in FMCG

-Brand management experience required

-Fluent in English

PREFERRED

-Multi-national company experience preferred

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