Global Homecare Category Strategy & Insight Senior Manager - 12 month secondment

Unilever Brazil; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in consumer goods is seeking a Global Homecare Category Strategy & Insight Senior Manager. This role involves developing growth strategies, delivering impactful innovations, and collaborating closely with various business units to optimize category performance. The ideal candidate will be data-driven with a passion for collaboration and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Inclusive workplace policies

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in Category Growth Management and Shopper Insight.
• Prior experience in Customer Business Development.
• Ability to drive innovative and disruptive ideas.

Responsibilities

• Develop global customer category growth strategies.
• Deliver significant innovation trade stories.
• Run Homecare Community of Practice for best practices.

Skills

Innovation mindset

Category Growth Management

Data-Driven Mindset

Customer understanding

Commercial Strategy

Job description

Job Title: Global Homecare Category Strategy & Insight Senior Manager

Location: Kingston

JOB PURPOSE

Home Care

In the Home Care Business Group at Unilever, you not only get an opportunity to Make Your Home a Better World but also get a chance to Make our World a Better Home! Our Clean Future ambition means we want to develop products that are tough on germs & stains and convenient to use and at the same time are also kinder to the planet.

Category Strategy & Insights

We co-create & implement omnichannel plans that unlock profitable& sustainable category growth, benefiting shoppers, our customers, Unilever, and the planet. We are Category and Shopper focused experts with deep category knowledge, across all channels. We want to make Unilever Homecare the #1 partner of choice for our customers.

We collaborate closely with Global Marketing, Insights, Research & Development, our Category Strategy & Planning / Category Management counterparts in the Business Units & countries and agencies to set the objective Business Group Customer Category Growth Strategy and bring in the shopper, customer, and channel voice into innovation and non-innovation led activities. To achieve this, we are looking for a highly motivated and driven member to join our team. This role has a direct report.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Industry Leading Customer Category Growth Strategies: the golden thread from a tight set of insights, all the way through to what the shopper sees.

• Develop Global Customer Category Growth Strategies.
• Partner Business unit and top 10 countries to localise.

Landing Big Bets with maximum impact:

• Deliver triple win compelling innovation trade stories for global big bets.
• Deliver ammunition fit for customers and channels, right first time.
• Deploy centralized POSM material to minimize waste & maximise impact.

Homecare Category Management & Shopper Marketing Repeatable Models:

• Co-create current & future shelf repeatable models.
• Co-create brand experience repeatable models to activate Category Value Drivers.

Build Capability:

• Run quarterly Homecare Community of Practice to share best practices

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Relevant Experiences: Category Growth Management, Insight especially Shopper Insight in Country. Prior experience in a Customer Business Development role in country.
• What Drives you: You are a doer with a can-do spirit. Passionate about collaborating, making things happen, and always keeping end goal in sight. You bring new and disruptive ideas and have a try-and-learn mentality. You don’t sit on “good enough” but set yourself the highest standards, holding yourself and others accountable.
• Key Skills: Innovation mindset; Category Growth Management; Data-Driven Mindset; Customer and Retailer Understanding, Commerce channels execution and digital business models; Commercial Strategy and Business Acumen / Net Revenue Management
• Standards of Leadership: Strategic thinking and writing; communication and storytelling; Stakeholder Management; Lateral Influence without Authority; Process Thinking (Discipline); Ability to join the dots and show the big picture.

NOTES

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed and include your Future Fit Plan if possible.

By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.

Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner Sarah Brough on [e-mail]

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).