Join us as Global Assistant Category Strategy Manager - Personal Care
- Location: Grha Unilever
- Terms & Conditions: Full-time role
Job Purpose
The Category Strategy Team plays a key role within the marketing community by shaping, developing, and executing long-term category strategies, leading innovation management, and steering key initiatives that enable competitive, consistent, and profitable growth. Ensuring plans are sufficient to deliver towards business financial goals while providing brands with inspiration for crafting of future-fit brand strategies.
The role of Assistant Category Strategy Manager is responsible for driving the PC category strategy agenda in Asia, with specific focus on Oral Care and Deos. This role will lead key strategic workstreams that accelerate the delivery of category strategies, working in close partnership with Global Brand Leads, cross functional teams, and Business Units. This is a high visibility role working hand in hand with senior stakeholders, learning from the category leadership team and enabling excellent opportunity to build business fundamentals, develop strategic thinking, creativity and leadership qualities. The successful candidate must demonstrate elevated levels of passion, creativity, an enterprising spirit, paired with strong interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities
The successful applicant will be responsible for:
- Category Foresight: supporting category innovation and brand portfolio strategies, by bringing in a cross functional, customer and consumer centric view, across key markets.
- Enables acceleration of future growth spaces by identifying and understanding of key emerging consumer trends and shifting shopping habits in partnership with CMI and CSP.
- Category Strategy: Accelerate future growth spaces experimentation, with opportunity to lead innovation initiatives
- Support in delivering Deos Asia acceleration strategic pillar via portfolio strategy co-creation in partnership with brand leads
- Category Operations: lead end to end the category innovation cycle governance (Oral Care Investor Boards and Category Innovation Forum)
- Owns innovation funnel analysis and reporting monitoring sufficiency of 3-year funnel value with focus on premiumisation, providing input to PC and Category Innovation forums, and senior leadership meetings.
- Ensuring effective management of IB by implementing simplification initiatives.
- Embed AI capabilities to improve innovation team's productivity and investor board decision making.
Business Skills
- Business acumen. Clarity on what drives disproportionate growth and crates value for Unilever brands and our customers, while improving the livelihood of consumers.
- Strong Analytical skills and understanding of P&L, Retail, Consumer and Brand Metrics that matter.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to manage senior stakeholders, and large cross functional teams sitting remotely in multiple time zones
- Strong passion for consumer insights. Ability to see through data trends and patterns, going from detail to big picture setting.
- Excellent project management skills. Must have had experience on managing complex workstreams, and ideally multi-country and cross-regional initiatives.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suit (esp. Powerpoint and Excel) - comfortable to operate with large amount of data.
Personal Skills
- Passion for Innovation, Brand Portfolio Strategies and Consumers. Show us what you are proud of, where you have unlocked the magic in your current or previous roles and what inspires you in the world of marketing and innovation.
- Strong personal mastery and self-discipline with ability to work independently to create business impact, prioritizing across multiple workstreams
- Excellent communicator, able to work collaboratively with multiple teams and senior stakeholders
- Flexibility, Agility & Adaptability - to anticipate needs, and meet deadlines even with shifting priorities
- Hunger to deliver growth, learn & succeed while having fun.
At Unilever, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive/succeed. All applicants will receive fair and respectful consideration, and we actively support the growth and development of every employee.
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.
