Beauty & Wellbeing Global Trends and Beauty Academy Assistant Manager

Unilever; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer goods company in London is seeking a Beauty Academy Assistant Manager to drive capabilities and trends in beauty marketing. The role involves collaborating with agencies, developing content for learning modules, and managing events. Candidates should have excellent project management skills, a passion for beauty, and a Bachelor’s degree. This position offers a competitive salary, annual bonuses, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Subsidised gym membership

Discounted staff shop

Shares in the company

Qualifications

• Excellent project management, planning, and organisation skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Curiosity and passion for beauty with an eye for detail.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and work with beauty specialist agencies.
• Develop Beauty Academy content aligned to learning objectives.
• Manage logistics for the trends programme events.
• Design the Beauty Academy visual identity and guidelines.

Skills

Project management

Excellent planning

Relationship building

Curiosity about beauty

Proficiency in AI tools

Networking

Attention to detail

Resilience and adaptability

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Miro/Mural

Job description

Job Title

B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Assistant Manager

Location

100VE

Overview

The PISD team connects the business group together and partners the Marketing leadership team in the key areas of Trends, Innovation, Design and Beauty Culture & Capability. All of this is done in close collaboration with the Design SVP, Global CMO, Brand Leads and BU leaders across the world. Reporting to the Trends & Beauty Academy Lead, this role is central to driving our capabilities agenda and trends. You will have the opportunity to shape the strategic trends content created to drive the innovation strategies for B&W marketing and play a pivotal role in transforming the company's expertise in beauty so that we become a true industry challenger.

JOB PURPOSE

The team values are centred around trust, transparency, honesty, authenticity, good intention, and which live out through the 4 Unilever Behaviours in the day-to-day execution. It is critical for us that every member feels seen, heard and valued; we lean into the hard conversations with good intention to learn, adapt and improve. Making transparency and trust a core principle that the leadership team is nurturing as we build a strong foundation and transition through the stages of team formation. We have a BOLD ambition, which is transformation at the core.

To achieve this, we are re-writing long established processes and ways of working, thinking, educating, inspiring the cross functional teams and brands within which we work. Therefore, the profile of the talents we bring in is critical, and we are looking for people with an ability to challenge the statu quo, dynamic, resilient, agile, solution finders beyond pure executant and of course marketing crafters.

Responsibilities

• Recruit & work closely with a network of beauty specialist agencies to develop and drive the capability program
• Work with external agency partners to develop Beauty Academy content that achieves the learning objectives for each module and is 100% aligned to the BA visual design principles across all touchpoints.
• Working with the Foresight Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the trends programme from content development to managing logistics of the event and post-event evaluation.
• Identify relevant trends and spaces in Beauty to inform key topics covered within the Beauty Academy learning curriculum.
• Design & shape the Beauty Academy visual identity, assets, and executional guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to design and execute a Beauty Academy cadence that provides the business-critical learning.
• Tracking on measurement tools, reports & UL platforms, and recommend correcting actions to support Beauty Academy company targets (e.g. 15-hour OKR)
• Maintaining & refresh BA SharePoint
• Adhoc support on design of content on wider Trends cascade where relevant for the scope

B&W Foresight & Trend Deployment

• You will work with the team to identify gaps or new areas of expertise or immersive experiences that will be needed in the future and then use social media and agency networks to identify individuals/agencies that meet these needs.
• Bring/implement ideas of projects that build trends thought leadership. Attend and report on relevant events, exhibitions etc
• Support the B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Lead in connecting in with wider PISD teams when and as necessary to ensure seamless flow and translation of trends into BBMs/MMP's
• Support the B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Lead on InnoProf execution (annual innovation 'fair')

Budget Management

You will have shared responsibility for sourcing and onboarding any new external partners to Unilever's procurement systems (Coupa) and will have ownership of managing the Beauty Academy budget and payment of these suppliers for your projects.

Key Skills

• Excellent project management, planning and organisation skills.
• Ability to work independently, to juggle multiple projects and priorities, as well as demonstrating real ownership and accountability.
• Resilience & managing ambiguity: Maintain effectiveness & ability to deliver when managing uncertainty and volatility with a can-do attitude.
• Curiosity and passion for beauty and aesthetics with an eye for detail.
• A strong storyteller, adapt at connecting the dots & turning complex concepts into simple, actionable stories for innovation crafting marketers
• A strong relationship builder and influencer, capable of working effectively with counterparts of all work levels and across multiple cultures/countries, driving the Beauty Academy agenda and saying no where needed.
• A confident leader of agency relationships, able to provide clear guidance and feedback on creative content
• Keen networker who can proactively seek out and create opportunities to expand their professional network and leverage these connections for capability or trends projects.
• Proficient in spoken and written English
• Great numeracy
• Attention to detail
• Confident at adopting new technology in particular AI & AI tools
• Software: Intermediate-Advanced in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Miro/ Mural.

Key Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with experience of working in marketing or insights.
• You are a passionate about beauty- you will know about the latest beauty hacks and social media conversations. Previous experience in the beauty is a strong plus.
• A personal interest in keeping connected to the changing external world & evidence of being able to develop strategic trend content from various sources and delivering with impact to the business.
• Proven track record of planning, organising and executing successful large events e.g. conferences, trade shows, corporate meetings or large social gatherings.
• Experience of leading a cross-functional team with an ability to be able to manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience working with multiple external agencies, providing feedback on creative content

Location Information

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London. This site will house some employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars together with colleagues who are currently located in Lever House in Kingston. We are excited to be creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment. The campus is due to be completed in 2026.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You'll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment. 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 are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. 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 at Unilever | Unilever.

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