Home Care - Unilever Professional - Assistant Brand Manager - EU

UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR A HOME CARE - UNILEVER PROFESSIONAL - ASSISTANT BRAND MANAGER - EU

Location: Hofplein , Rotterdam – the Netherlands

Local conditions apply

Full-time/Part-time

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position and for this vacancy in principle we will first consider candidates based in the Netherlands. If you are based outside of the Netherlands and you are interested to apply, please feel free to do so but we can only take your application on if a decision is made to also recruit outside of the Netherlands.

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future. 

Unilever Professional is the B2B arm of Home care, we are the youngest team of HC (created in 2019) with a strong track record of growth and an even bigger ambition: building a €1bn professional cleaning business by 2030.

This will be achieved by putting our operator at the core of everything we do and bringing our purpose to life: Making Clean and Cleaners matter. We are focusing on designing an operator centric portfolio, route to market and operating model suited for the channel. Our strategic focus is to bring performing & simple cleaning solutions to 4 main operator groups: restaurants, hotels, offices and launderettes. The business started in EU, Brazil, and Vietnam and has now spread across markets in North & South America, Asia, ANZ and South Africa.

It will be exciting and rewarding journey to participate in building the future of Professional HC. We are looking for an ambitious, capable marketer who can act as intra-preneur.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

• Develop a deep understanding of our operator groups, gather actionable insights and turn them into solution solving true operators’ needs.

• Own the project management process and lead the cross-functional team for delivery of the projects OTIF.

• Partner with the cross-functional team to deliver our future-fit portfolio:  bringing superior products to the operators, reducing complexity, restoring margins.

• Responsible for the coordination of EU Investor Board and Sprint Reviews, tracking the EU innovation funnel.

• Craft clear and effective perfect launch plan in collaboration with local markets and trade-marketing team to ensure a successful launch of our innovations/transformation projects in EU.

• Co-leads with the comms team the OET (Operator Experience Toolkits) for EU innovations and brand equity campaigns which includes digital first Key touchpoints ensuring perfect operator journeys.

• Gets on the frontline and connects with local teams to ensure all initiatives are operator-relevant and customer-relevant. Ensures that best practices travel across markets.

• Collaborate with EU central team to coordinate EU Community Calls and cascades, defining the agenda, organizing the meetings and following up on actions.

SKILLS YOU SHOULD HAVE

• A self-starter, hands on professional, with a strong accountability and bias for action.

• The ability to work confidently with multiple cross functional teams across geographies, with strong communication, presentation and stakeholders influencing abilities.

• A holistic marketing skill set, with as much passion for strategy & creative development as execution and financials with a focus on growth mindset & bias for action

• Strong project management skill is key for this specific role. A successful candidate is expected to turn deep operator insights into a successful project launch.

• Strong stakeholder management skills – able to effectively communicate with cross functional teams, leadership team, local and global teams.

• Financial acumen for creating business cases and reviewing performance vs. business case targets.

• In addition, the right candidate will be highly motivated and capable of leaning in to support the team on wider portfolio tasks.

THE QUALITIES WE LOOK FOR

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.

• +5 years’ experience across marketing disciplines: brand management, product innovation.

• Project management and strong knowledge of financials is also required.

• Budget management

• Fluent in English

• Experience in B2B marketing is a plus.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40%-60% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate.  For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products. 

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Homework allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.   

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.  Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Looking forward to meeting you! 

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, parenthood, pregnancy or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against. 

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

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