Global Senior Brand Manager – Dove B&W Innovation

Job Title: Global Senior Brand Manager – Dove B&W Innovation

Reports To: Global Dove Hair Leadership
Work Function: Global Marketing BG
Location: 100VE​

Terms: Permanent, Full Time

Background & Purpose of the Job

The Dove Beauty team is seeking a Global Senior Brand Manager to lead breakthrough global innovation and key strategic workstreams for the fast growth and highly strategic Dove Hair portfolio. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of Dove Hair by concepting and creating superior, consumer-loved innovations to deliver across key markets including Latin America, North America & Asia. The immediate focus is to drive the development of 2026/2027/2028 innovations from concept to launch and leading key strategic and operational workstreams for the Dove hair holistic portfolio and Beauty community.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

This role is ideal for a strategic thinker and innovation leader who thrives on crafting disruptive ideas, translating consumer insights into compelling propositions, and collaborating across global teams. You will be responsible for delivering Dove Hair’s ambitious innovation launches, managing cross-functional squads, and ensuring excellence in execution.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading global innovation projects on core and new platforms, including insight development, concept creation, MVP testing and improvement, formulation/packaging, sourcing and timeline to deliver to market on time, in full. Cross functional team to include R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights key partners

• Driving unmissable brand superiority across touchpoints

• Leading strategic workstreams such as sensorials/fragrance and claims roadmap

• Managing global design to ensure consistency and excellence across markets

• Collaborating with regional teams, agencies, and suppliers to align on strategy and execution

• Support brand lead on operational oversight such as budget, 12qp setting, financial growth model, funnel sufficiency

• Providing leadership and coaching to one or more direct reports

• Lead a global Beauty Community for Dove, driving insights sharing, knowledge building and team building a few touchpoints per year

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree; MBA preferred

• Proven experience in senior brand management or innovation roles

• Proven track record in leading global innovation projects

• Passion for beauty and deep understanding of consumer and category trends

• Strong project management and cross-functional leadership skills

• Experience managing and developing junior team members

• Ability to work across geographies and time zones

• Strategic mindset with creative problem-solving abilities

• Experience with Unilever tools and processes (e.g., BLUE, UBS, Numerator) is a plus

What we offer

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 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 (unilever.com).

Location

In 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars ("100VE"), Lever House in Kingston and Graze in Richmond, the build is due to be complete in early 2025. Most recently, in August 2024, we announced our intention to retain our premises in 100VE until our lease expires in 2027.

We are due to consult with our existing workforce on the new proposal to retain 100VE for the duration of our lease. Therefore, until such a time consultation has concluded as to the retention of our 100VE office, this role will be based in 100 Victoria Embankment until early 2025 and then will move to the Kingston Campus.