Assistant Brand Manager Desserts Ice-cream UK

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Assistant Brand Manager Desserts Ice-cream UK

Employer Unilever Location Kingston Upon Thames, England, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 31 May 2025

View more categories View less categories Sector Marketing, Advertising and PR Role Assistant Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Role: Assistant Brand Manager Desserts Ice-cream UK

Scope: UK/Permanent/Full time/Regular

Reports to: Marketing Manager Desserts

Location: UKI Head Office

Terms & Conditions: Local conditions apply

ABOUT DESSERTS:

Desserts play a critical role in Unilever's ice cream portfolio and this role allows the successful candidate to take the lead on some of our best loved brands. Specifically, Swedish Glace (UK's #1 dairy free brand), the Iconic Viennetta as well as our classic Wall's Soft scoop brand. As well as taking ownership of your own portfolio, this role also gives you the opportunity to learn and develop key marketing skills through supporting the Desserts Marketing Manager on the UK's #1 premium dessert brand Carte D'Or.

ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY:

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers' businesses. Growing our people's careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments - and having fun doing it.

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall's, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry's, loved in 76 countries, we are the world's largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.

JOB PURPOSE:

This is an exciting and unique opportunity that gives the successful candidate the chance to work across some of the biggest dessert brands in the ice cream category. This position will be primarily focused on supporting these brands through flawless execution of innovation, renovations and in-market execution across consumer touchpoints.

For our Assistant Brand Manager on desserts, we are looking for a curious and creative self-starter with a passion for brands and snacking culture. The ideal candidate will support driving the business forward through strong communication skills keeping projects and campaigns on track, staying constantly curious about our consumer's needs, and having strong attention to detail to ensure flawless execution of our brand strategies. This position will require a hunger to learn the fundamentals of brand communication and in-market execution, which includes market trends, consumer focus, and category dynamics.

WHO YOU ARE & WHAT YOU WILL DO

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the development of unmissable ATL marketing campaigns
  

• Lead the digital execution of campaigns, managing the full end-to-end process including development of assets, testing and pivoting where needed once live
  

• Assist with commercial delivery of the brand, including monitoring/reporting of in-market performance & ownership of forecast assumptions
  

• Lead innovation projects, including consumer research, competitor reviews, business cases and launch activation plans
  

• Partner with our ice cream delivery and away from home teams to identify growth opportunities
  

• Manage the artwork process for the UK brand team
  

• Responsible for budget management, in close collaboration with the wider team
  

• Support development of annual brand strategy
  

• Present brand plans to external customers and internal UK & Global stakeholders
  

• Partner closely with media and digital expert teams to ensure flawless execution in market, through development of full digital ecosystem ensuring cohesion of brand experience across consumer touchpoints (i.e. Online, In-store).
  

• Weekly management of feedback from quality & consumer engagement teams
  

• Most importantly..... taste new Ice Cream flavours!
  

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• You're a born leader: This position requires leadership & influencing skills as you will interact with cross-functional business partners, brand partners in multiple categories as well as agencies.
  

• You're a strong communicator: This position requires strong verbal and written communication skills with keen attention to detail, while bringing colleagues along for the journey.
  

• You show empathy and curiosity: You will need to be consumer-obsessed and develop an understanding of consumer and shopper missions in Ice Cream, and how they vary across retail channels, while never being afraid to ask "Why?".
  

• You are creative with a passion for creating impactful marketing campaigns
  

• Strong business acumen with strong analytical skills and attention to detail
  

• Hungry for growth with founder's mindset - someone who seeks out the opportunities and wants to try/learn/test new things and push boundaries
  

• Strong digital capabilities with an appetite to learn and adapt in this rapidly changing marketing and commerce landscape.
  

• Consumer love - constantly curious and hungry to keep up to date with market insights
  

• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
  

• Highly articulate and able to influence a wider range of stakeholders
  

• IT literacy & Nielsen/Kantar understanding
  

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS: At least 2 years' experience in marketing preferable in CPG, snacking or ice-cream. Proven track record of performance where you are able to demonstrate your ability to deliver results either in brand growth or market share growth.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:

• A unique mix of global scale & start-up spirit-€8.3bn powerhouse with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset. We're building a new high growth Ice Cream company from the ground up.
  

• Career without limits-42 markets, international opportunities, and fast tracked growth.
  

• A performance-driven culture-Freedom to act, disrupt and grow - your success is measured by impact.
  

• A company that celebrates joy, innovation, and purpose-We create extraordinary careers, just like our ice cream creates extraordinary moments.
  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

As publicly announced, Unilever will separate its Ice Cream business which is expected by the end of 2025. This role will transfer to the new Ice Cream company.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. 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.

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position

ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?

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.

Disclaimer

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

We take pleasure seriously. Join the Ice Cream team now!

Company

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts. The personal contribution you make means you feel good about what you do and proud that you have a career with a higher purpose. Be empowered to make a positive impact, by bringing your purpose into action.

Be a force for good. Unleash your curiosity and pioneering spirit to make our business win and grow. Use your confidence to challenge the status quo for the better, while you learn, grow and make a positive impact .

"Diversity & Inclusion is one of the things that we want Unilever to be famous for.

This means making sure our business is fair, attracting and retaining

the very best talent and helping them unlock their full potential."

Dove, Lipton, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Lynx, Knorr, Surf. Our world-famous brands are totally different – and as people, so are we. Be surrounded by individually different but like-minded people who share your values, commitment and desire to start or pursue a career across different cultures and levels of seniority where you do good things every day. Bring your real self to work, here we combine our differences to achieve greater things.

Develop into your best self. Get inspired by leaders and peers and create life-shaping experiences for yourself. Unilever offers an inspirational working environment where you will be mentored and nurtured by bright minds and purpose-led leaders. Use your skills and knowledge, and the tools we provide you to experience all that Unilever can offer across brands and around the world. You have the ability to craft a flexible – and global – career.

Our policies & flexible working

At Unilever, we have a range of market-leading, family-friendly and flexible working policies, which enable our employees to balance their day-to-day responsibilities.

These policies and practices include:

• Agile working, which gives employees the possibility to work remotely and flex their own hours, whilst ensuring business needs are met.
• Flexible working arrangements including, but not limited to, part-time and job share opportunities.
• Enhanced leave policies - all employees taking maternity or shared parental leave have up to 16 weeks’ paid leave and some eligible employees can have up to 39 weeks’ paid leave. In addition, our Maternity & Paternity Services portal provides online resources to support employees at all stages of parenthood, as well as tailored guidance for line managers.
• Practical support including, nursery benefits and back-up care for parents and carers.
• A constant focus on wellbeing for employees, including regular health checks, mental health support and our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a strong culture of mentoring, training and learning across the organisation, with a range of resources and initiatives available:

• Mentoring and coaching
• Leadership and general business skills training, including unconscious bias
• Learning for all, via access to internal and external resources
• Workshops which support personal and team development.

Our ambition: unlocking talent through disability inclusion

The World Health Organization estimates that there are one billion people in the world currently living with a disability. That’s about 15% of the global population, or 1 in 7 of us. And the statistics suggest that people living with disabilities are among the most marginalised populations in the world in terms of employment and educational opportunity.

Removing the barriers facing people living with disability is a priority for our business. It isn’t just the right thing to do – we believe that creating equality of opportunity will unlock a huge pool of talent. It also gets to the heart of the ambition to ‘leave no one behind’ – and could contribute to the five Sustainable Development Goals which explicitly reference disability and to the wider sustainable development agenda.

In 2018, we set ourselves global commitments to achieve by 2025:

• to be the number one employer of choice for people with disabilities, and
• to increase the number of employees with disabilities to 5% of our total workforce.

These are ambitious targets. They involve transforming the way we recruit and train our people. And they mean adapting both the way we work and our workplaces, so that we can support people with disabilities to reach their full potential.

"We cannot be an inclusive organisation unless we ensure that we have created the conditions

and the culture for people with a disability to thrive."

We are keen to find out about your talent, and offer the support you need.

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