Sunlight Global Assistant Brand Manager

Unilever Brazil; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer goods company in London is looking for a Global Assistant Brand Manager for Sunlight. You will support the brand strategy and innovation, drive growth, and manage key projects. The ideal candidate has a strong background in brand development and project management. This role offers competitive benefits, including a hybrid working environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Subsidised gym membership

Discounted staff shop

Shares

Qualifications

• Prior experience in Brand Building and Brand Development.
• Experience in managing relationships with cross-functional partners and markets.
• Strong track record of timely project delivery.
• Excellent communicator, able to work effectively with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Support Global Brand Manager in managing global projects.
• Analyze brand performance and identify growth opportunities.
• Oversee brand modernization and visual identity updates.
• Lead innovation streams for Core brand roadmap.
• Engage with SEA markets to drive product growth.

Skills

Brand Building

Project Management

Team Collaboration

Communication

Job description

Job Title: GLOBAL ASSISTANT BRAND MANAGER, SUNLIGHT CORE (INNOVATION & STRATEGY)

Location: 100VE, London

JOB PURPOSE

It is an exciting time to be part of the growth of Sunlight, the first brand launched by Unilever founder William Lever in 1883. Sunlight is a brand loved by consumers and is the third most frequently bought brand for any FMCG brand worldwide! The brand is number one in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, Argentina. You will join a passionate and diverse team to be part of a landmark journey building Sunlight as an innovative and disruptive brand, becoming one of Unilever’s key brands with 1B+ Eu turnover.

Sunlight brand has been built from its Core hand dish wash variant and by delivering years after years superior products, Core products have enabled the brand to reach its leader position. Sunlight is a thought leader bringing new and differentiated innovations to the market. For almost a decade now, Sunlight has been on a mission to modernise and premiumise the Dishwash category. And to accelerate our Premiumization agenda, we launched in 2018 a new refreshed Core+ range. Whilst Core+ is growing, Core contributes to 83% of the Sunlight portfolio (≈ 970 million euros). To ensure Sunlight protects its leadership growing Core is critical.

We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced Senior Assistant Brand Manager to join Sunlight/Hand Dishwash Global team to lead Core HDW, modernise the brand and ensure undeniable leadership. This is an important role with SEA docking responsibility of key markets and requires creative mind, experience in crafting mixes, excellent project management and team management skills and proven experience of strong innovations that have landed in the market. The role has an exposure to senior stakeholders in the organization and requires building close relationship with our top 10 markets to design and drive the global agenda.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the Global Brand Manager in managing and landing global Core projects (e.g. strengthen Core proposition, drive product superiority)
• Support the Global Brand Manager to re-shape the Brand Strategy and develop growth plans for Core by analyzing brand performance and proactively identifying issues and opportunities for future brand growth (e.g. UBS, pricing strategy…)
• Support the Global Brand Manager to continue the modernization journey of the brand and its Brand Visual Identity, including the pack transformation workstream
• Explore future innovation stream to develop the springboard for future Core roadmap
• Directly dock with our SEA markets to deliver Sunlight Core growth
• Act as Global leader to monitor & review the effectiveness of project implementation & brand performance, to propose corrective actions

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Prior experience in Brand Building and Brand Development
• Experience in managing relationships with cross functional partners and markets.
• Strong track record of timely project delivery
• Strong team player with passion for growth.
• Excellent communicator, able to work effectively with the wider brand team and local teams.

NOTES

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.