Associate Brand Manager North America, Premium Skin Cleansing

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Dove Female is renowned as one of the world’s leading Beauty and Personal Care brands, operating across Deodorants, Skin Cleansing, and Hair. The brand champions real beauty, body confidence and is anchored in its purpose – to inspire females to experience the transformative effects of caring for themselves and others. Dove Female SCL is the largest category within the portfolio, with an incredible track record of growth amidst intense competition

So yes, there are big ambitions to keep the momentum going on Dove Skin Cleansing, and we are seeking a talented Global Associate Brand Manager to help turbo-charge our momentum even more by delivering world-class global innovations and communication plans for the U.S. market.

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. As the Associate Brand Manager, you will be working alongside the Associate Director and current Associate Brand Manager leading the Premium platforms of the brand, delivering strong mixes and communication plans to unlock new sources of growth for the brand. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have a very meaningful part in defining the market making strategy of Premium, co-lead the crafting of future-proof innovations and unmissable campaigns on a purposeful brand, and independently partner with the U.S. market. This is a challenging and demanding role with high-visibility role for someone looking to become a brand manager in the near future.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Job Summary: 

• Support the team on developing the North America Dove Premium Skin Cleansing platform and partner with U.S as main market to ensure Dove Premium Skin Cleansing growth trajectory 

• Develop a deep understanding of the skin cleansing category and consumer as well as emerging trends in the U.S uncovering consumer insights that will unlock penetration for the brand and allow us to win competitively within the premium segment

• Co-lead the development of the Dove Skin Cleansing Premium roadmap and future innovations.

• Independently lead project networks to deliver mixes on-time-in-full by partnering closely with cross functional teams.

• Lead communication development process for campaigns end-to-end, collaborating closely with our agency partners 

• Manage project budgets, inclusive of raising POs, monthly forecasting and additional funding requests (as needed).

• Support development of material for customer and stakeholder sell-in (including key visuals, product samples, sizzle videos, investor board documents).

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred

• At least 4 years relevant work experience in marketing. Previous brand development experience preferred.  

• Independent and proactive, with strong leadership and interpersonal skills 

• Strong bias for action while maintaining a positive approach on getting things done 

• Deep passion for understanding the category, consumers, shoppers and PC/Beauty emerging trends.

• Data-driven problem solver with strong business acumen; ability to connect the dots on different information sources to come up with powerful insights 

• Eyes for beauty and strong craftmanship skills with attention to detail, obsessed about each touch point consumers have for our brand 

• The ability to prioritize, make recommendations, and steer decision making 

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are a team player, 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 intelligently and spot issues and opportunities to make things better. 

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