Junior Brand Manager - Omo

ENGINEERINGUK; Umhlanga Rocks; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 450 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global company as a Junior Brand Manager, where you will assist in brand strategy and execution while working in a diverse and inclusive environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn from industry leaders and contribute to impactful projects in the Home Care sector.

Benefits

Agile working

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced leave policies

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in managing a project to completion.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Brand Manager to land the brand agenda.
• Deliver end-to-end marketing support on brand.
• Lead cross-functional teams for successful execution.

Skills

Strong business/financial acumen

Consumer and customer focus

Growth mindset

Education

Relevant Degree or equivalent

Job description

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

Unilever is currently hiring for a Junior Brand Manager

Function: Marketing

Scope: Southern Africa Homecare

Location: La Lucia Ridge/ 61 Katherine Street

Terms & Conditions: Full time; SA Citizens only

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 inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. 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.

HOME CARE SOUTHERN AFRICA

Home Care is on a mission to deliver a Clean Future through superior, sustainable, and great value household cleaning and laundry products. Globally Unilever Home Care is a €12,3 billion business and is the #1 business on volume share, accounting for 23% of total HC units sold globally.

Home Care Southern Africa is a 133 year old iconic business with 4 core categories: Fabric Cleaning (65%), Home & Hygiene (29%), Fabric Enhancers (5%) and Unilever Professionals (1%). Home Care generates R11 billion rand business, growing at an average of 8% in the last 3 years. 72% of our business occupies winning share business, with #1 or 2 share positions in most of the categories we play in. Southern Africa is amongst the top 5 priority cells for global Home Care.

In South Africa, Home Care is the #1 manufacturer (5x bigger than the next leading competitor)

In Home Care we aim to turn chores into extraordinary moments that do not cost the earth.

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Assist the Brand Manager/ Manager to land the brand(s) agenda
  
• Deliver end-to-end marketing support on brand across 8 marketing competencies
  
• Understand and uncover root issues and opportunities across the 6Ps
  
• Understand and build insights from retailer, customer, shopper and consumers into actionable plans
  
• Work with the global team, manager & brand community to influence and shape brand strategy,
  
• Lead the development and execution of activity plans on time, in full
  
• Lead Sales & Operational Planning on the brand
  
• Lead and project manage local "20" and "10" projects
  
• Lead cross functional teams to ensure successful execution of launch plans and post launch evaluation
  
• Manage the brand budget to ensure spend is in line with agreements
  
• Constantly review brand and initiative performance for ongoing improvement
  
• People management and development - develop junior talent in the HC team
  
• Lead for wider organizational impact in HC marketing (locally or globally)
  

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

Minimum:

• Relevant Degree or equivalent
  
• 3+ years of relevant work experience
  
• Experience in managing a project to completion
  
• Preferred:
  
• Leading local mix development
  
• Experience in managing a Brand innovation & renovation
  
• Experience in delivering brand growth strategy
  
• Localizing and Executing Brand Plans
  
• Leveraging PR and/or Digital to drive brand plans
  
• Net Revenue Management
  
• Strong rigor and analytical skills in surfacing issues and opportunities for the brand
  

Skills

• Strong business/financial acumen
  
• Consumer and customer focus - curiosity, ability to uncover relevant insights and translate these into actionable plans
  
• Ability to assess business challenges, articulate these, and drive right levels of influence across all stakeholders and cross functional teams
  
• Strong understanding and management of S&OP
  
• Growth mindset - a winning, competitive mindset
  

• Commercial Acumen & Net Revenue Management
  
• Brand Guardianship
  
• Brand Activity Planning
  
• Creative Judgment
  
• Brand Performance Analysis
  
• Campaign Measurment
  

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.
    
  • 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
    
  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people - coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
    

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! 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.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity 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. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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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