Associate Brand Manager, SheaMoisture - Deos Innovation

ENGINEERINGUK; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 86,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Associate Brand Manager to drive innovation for SheaMoisture deodorant offerings. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, managing budgets, and ensuring timely product launches while focusing on the needs of Black consumers. Join a purpose-driven organization committed to diversity and inclusion, offering a collaborative and flexible work environment.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Retirement Savings Benefits

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

Flexible Working Arrangements

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in innovation and design.
• Experience in leading cross-functional innovation projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal project cross-function teams for deodorant collections.
• Manage brand budget and sample needs.
• Influence future launches and innovation roadmaps.

Skills

Communication Mastery

Business Acumen

Strategic Thinking

Analytical Skills

Creative Skills

Education

Bachelors Degree

Job description

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Associate Brand Manager, SheaMoisture - Deos Innovation

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

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people - we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our, collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centres around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. We don't believe in the 'one size fits all' approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

Recognizing that some of Unilever's largest retail partners serve distinct consumers and have distinct styles of their own, Unilever has created an innovation team to make sure our pipeline of innovation serves them appropriately and is competitive. With its humble beginnings selling products on the streets of New York City, SheaMoisture is rooted in serving the community with a passion for overserving the underserved Black/Melanin Rich consumer with disruptive innovation and strong retailer partnerships aligned with its goals.

JOB PURPOSE

In this role, you will help unleash the power of innovation to drive SheaMoisture into a billion-dollar brand. You will be responsible for bringing SheaMoisture premium deodorant offerings to life. You will lead the cross functional team through the innovation process on these collections, the artwork development and all the corresponding 7OA and e-comm assets/with Social First assignments. You will also be expected to contribute to the larger strategic innovation projects for customers beyond Shea Moisture as needed (e.g. Value Chain opportunities).

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Lead internal project cross-function teams to develop, from concept to production, deodorant collections every year.
• Champion & advocate to deliver on the unmet needs of our Black, Melanin Rich Consumer from formulation to pack to ssets.
• Bring an eye for design and keep your pulse on trends to influence future launches and innovation roadmaps.
• Visibly Showcase Strong organizational skills. You will need to juggle multiple projects with varying launch dates simultaneously and be the owner of the Shea Moisture Deodorant IPT and ensuring all critical networks deliver ON TIME by managing expectations of Cross Functional Team AND Leadership.
• You will also be 100% responsible for leading and communicating the brand budget to your boss, managing sample needs and other tactical needs that may arise by understanding the needs from management and helping to balance priorities as new information arises. You will need an understanding of brand development levers i.e., trends, consumer behavior, fragrances, packaging, PO mgmt, Agency Needs, project must haves vs. nice to haves, etc..

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelors Degree with 3+ years of experience in innovation, design, and broadbased communication.
• Business acumen and maturity to adjust with dynamic market & internal transitions. Communication Mastery and the ability to manage expectations for disruptive success.
• Experience in leading cross functional innovation projects, ensuring they are aligned to market requirements and launch on time with excellence.
• Proven skills in Performance with budget management/POs, IPT leadership in performance projects and/or innovation launches.
• A good balance of strategic, analytical, and creative skills with the ability to focus on what is important and necessary to get priorities delivered. Understanding of Beauty & Personal Care market is a plus.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others - both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner's mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $86,080 to $129,120. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

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Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

For more information about your Federal rights, please see Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal and Pay Transparency Non discrimination Provision.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.

If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail]. Please note: This email is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry about positions or application statuses. The Protected Veterans or Individuals with Disabilities AAP narratives are available for inspection by any employee or applicant for employment Monday through Friday during normal business hours at establishment.

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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