Associate Brand Manager - Maille

Background & Purpose of the Job
Foods is the largest Business Unit within Unilever, and one of the most significant Foods businesses within Canada. With iconic, market leading brands such as Hellmann’s and Knorr, and super-premium brands such as Maille, it’s poised to continue to grow.

To support this growth journey, we are looking for a budding marketer who possesses both operational mastery as well as a creative acumen in equal parts and is looking to further their marketing career in a world-class marketing organization.

As the Portfolio and Brand Lead for Maille in Canada, a strategic super-premium business, you will nurture the brand and shape its growth trajectory, leading it operationally in partnership with cross-functional teams, and develop and execute its end-to-end portfolio and marketing strategy along with the category lead for Condiments.

Who You Are & What You will Do
The position would be that of an Associate Brand Manager, reporting into the category lead for Canada Condiments. This position offers a fantastic opportunity for someone with a few years of experience under their belt to develop independent leadership and marketing ownership skills.

We are looking for a candidate who can hit the ground running, demonstrate elevated levels of responsibility, ownership, and desire to develop within the exciting and demanding world of Foods. Within this position you will be required to:

• Design and ownership of portfolio transformation and innovation funnel on Maille, including 12QP and financial plan.
• Lead projects with a cross-functional team (incl. Shopper Marketing, Customer Strategy and Trade, Supply Chain, R&D, Legal etc.) to deliver against growth and profitability objectives.
• Lead in-market execution on the Maille brand in close collaboration with Customer Strategy & Planning and Integrated Planning.
• Ensure on-time, flawless execution of brand innovation and marketing programs optimizing communication and innovation mixes for the Canadian market incl. development of business cases, as well as attending and leading innovation project team (IPT) meetings.
• Lead an inter-agency team comprising of Creative, PR, Media agencies, and responsible for campaign development from briefing to strategy, planning, execution and post-eval.
• Complete ownership of the marketing budget, in partnership with the Category Lead, to ensure optimal allocation of investment to meet brand growth and financial objectives.
• Representing the brand in local, NA and global forums to showcase the work being done in Canada and sharing learnings and best practices where required.
• Own category, competitive and customer tracking and analysis, bringing insights back to react against and inform brand strategy and tactics.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the Maille global brand community, category business teams, cross functional teams, and agency partners; identify and mobilize needed resources to accomplish brand/project goals.
• End-to-end accountability in all aspects of the brand in partnership with the Category Lead (e.g. portfolio transformation, sales and customer meetings, topline and bottom-line growth, market share growth, business cases, to name a few)

Personal Qualities and Skills Needed

• You are a born leader: This position entails strong leadership skills as you will interact with multi-functional business partners as well as multiple agencies, with several dozen contacts to work with.
• You have a bias for action: This position will require someone to operate in a fast-moving, constantly changing environment, often needing rapid decision making and pivots in plans.
• You show empathy and curiosity: You will need to develop an understanding of consumer and shopper missions in food, and how they vary across retail channels.
• You generate powerful insights: Our work starts with understanding what drives our consumers to purchase, and crafting plans based on those insights, including nuances based on the shopping occasion and retail channel.
• You transform data into insights: Strong analytical skills are required to understand the business, identify opportunities and risks, and propose relevant actions.
• An ambition to become an iconic marketer: This role requires someone with a strategic vision to marketing and with a bold ambition to change the way marketing is done.

What You will Need to Succeed

The ideal candidate is passionate about building brands. They have strong analytic ability and business acumen, while possessing a love for creative and marketing. They like to think big picture but then get their hands dirty and execute and overall are driven by results and making a difference in people’s lives.

• 4+ years marketing experience, ideally CPG/Foods, with a strong experience in social and digital strategy development and plan execution.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to connect the dots to make strategic decisions.
• Have a knack for creative and strategy, constantly craving to create the next big marketing success.
• Ability to operate autonomously in sometimes ambiguous situations, or at other times to collaborate with others within clear guidelines and expectations.
• An understanding of digital and social marketing, with an experience in managing inter-agency teams.
• Clear demonstration of project management & leadership skills with experience/ability leading cross-functional teams, agencies, and media partners.
• Proven record of drive and initiative with outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Fully operational knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Nielsen NIQ
• Desire to work in the fun and exciting Foods category.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $84,900-$127,300. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

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