Prospect Innovation Marketing Assistant Manager – Skincare

Unilever; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative team at the forefront of beauty transformation! As a Prospect Innovation Marketing Assistant Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of skincare by identifying growth opportunities and driving innovative projects. This position offers a dynamic environment where your entrepreneurial spirit and passion for beauty trends will thrive. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, sustainable solutions that resonate with consumers. Embrace the chance to work with renowned brands while enjoying a flexible and inclusive workplace that values diversity and well-being.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Annual Bonus

Subsidised Gym Membership

Discounted Staff Shop

Shares

Flexible Working Options

Qualifications

• A university degree or equivalent professional qualification is required.
• At least 2 years of marketing experience, preferably in Global Brand Development.

Responsibilities

• Identify growth opportunities based on market data and trends.
• Support key innovation projects by blending scientific insights with consumer desires.
• Collaborate with R&D to bring product science stories to life.

Skills

Marketing

Interpersonal Skills

Digital Fluency

Entrepreneurial Drive

Beauty Trends Knowledge

Education

University Degree

Job description

Job Title: Prospect Innovation Marketing Assistant Manager – Skincare

Location: 100VE, London

Job Purpose

Are you passionate about innovation and eager to shape the future of beauty? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and embrace the challenges of the unknown? Unilever’s newly established Beauty & Wellness (B&W) Prospective Innovation & Sustainable Department is looking for a passionate beauty enthusiast to join our pioneering team and be at the forefront of global beauty innovation.

This multi-disciplinary team is dedicated to crafting and creating sustainable, innovative solutions from inception to execution. Through experimentation, iteration, and deep transformation, we aim to elevate B&W brands by unlocking their purpose, science, and consumer desire to new heights and establishing a new ecosystem of groundbreaking ideas. Our mission is to curate innovations based on strategic B&W priorities and growth spaces with the potential to define the future of beauty.

If you’re ready to be part of a cutting-edge team with a startup mindset, this role is made for you.

Responsibilities

1. Shape the Future of Our Core Business: Play a key role in identifying growth opportunities based on market data and trends, directly contributing to the future of our core business.
2. Drive Science and Desire: Support key innovation projects by seamlessly blending scientific insights with consumer desires, ensuring our products stand out in the market.
3. Refine Beauty Craftsmanship & Storytelling: Collaborate closely with R&D and agency partners to bring our product science stories to life, honing your craft in beauty storytelling.
4. Lead Cross-Functional Teams: Successfully partner with the Head of Skincare/Haircare to guide multi-functional project teams, partnering closely with Business Unit teams to execute and bring innovations to market across the full marketing mix.

All About You

1. Entrepreneurial Drive: You are an accountable, proactive doer with the determination to make things happen, forging strong working relationships with cross-functional partners and agencies, eager to learn, resilient & apt at finding solutions where others see blockers.
2. Strong interpersonal skills: You are highly collaborative and capable of building strong relationships and influence across your projects. Able to filter relevant feedback while keeping a global mindset.
3. Passion for Skincare/Haircare and Beauty Trends: You are naturally curious, always on the lookout for the latest beauty trends, with a particular personal passion & curiosity for Skincare/Haircare brands and how they engage with their audiences.
4. Aesthetic Excellence: You have a keen eye for detail, a strong sense of aesthetics, and take pride in delivering high-quality work—never settling for 'good enough.'
5. High digital & social fluency

Must-have Experience

1. Educational Background: A university degree or equivalent professional qualification.
2. Marketing Experience: At least 2 years of experience in marketing. Experience in a Global Brand Development role is preferred, but not mandatory if you can demonstrate a strong interest in product craft (product/packaging, design, communications).
3. Marketing Innovation experience: Highly desirable.
4. Leadership Skills: A proven track record of working with cross-functional teams and working closely with key partners.
5. Beauty Category Experience: Prior experience in a beauty category is preferred.

Notes

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on 08 August 2024, we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation, we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation, your place of work will be 100VE or Kingston-upon-Thames (“the locations”) and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

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.

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