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 Persil, Dove, Knorr,Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. 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”

Our Marketeers create value by building more relevant and meaningful consumer relationships. Our job is to offer the right product to the right person at the right time. Whether you’re bringing a trusted favourite to a new market, or launching something new, you’ll see great products brought to life in the eyes of customers and consumers, creating relationships that can last generations. â€‹

Unilever’s Marketers are impactful Entrepreneurs in sustainable marketing and are increasingly focused on driving performance through brands with purpose; brands which provide a positive change to people and to society. We want to reach more people in more places more often with product truth; enabling and empowering people to achieve great things for themselves, for our business, and for the world. Our brilliantly different brands - brands that have a strong purpose, but where the product itself is also contributing towards a more sustainable planet – such as Knorr, Omo, Dove and Domestos are growing 30% faster than the rest of our portfolio and delivering over half of our growth.

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston, Unilever House in Leatherhead and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in December 2023 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.

JOB PURPOSE

Surf is one of the largest brands within Unilever UKI’s Home Care category (RSV over €135m, +5% value sales).

Surf is trusted by people around the world and in the UK to deliver clean laundry and long lasting fragrance at great value. In recent years Surf has gone from strength to strength delivering strong penetration, sales and share growth. Consumers love Surf not only for fantastic fragrances and great value but also for being a positive and uplifting brand with a light-hearted take on laundry. The brand is now crafted and developed locally in key markets and our communication is hyper-relevant to the UK, including the current ‘Perf with Surf’ communications that feature reality TV star Dani Dyer, and moving forward new brand ambassador is British Celebrity Gemma Collins. Playful limited editions and new fragrances also form a key element of the brand’s growth plan.

Surf is also becoming ever more sustainable with more concentrated formulations, less plastic and more renewable ingredients as part of our Home Care Clean Future strategy.

We are looking for a passionate, business-savvy and digitally smart marketer with an appetite to help drive transformational growth and take this fantastic brand to even greater heights.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be supporting the Brand Manager in the implementation & execution on the Surf brand in the UKI Home Care market, driving growth through marketing activities.
This will include:        

• Supporting the Brand Manager in implementing the UK brand strategy and development of the marketing programmes and purpose-led programmes.

• Supporting the Brand Manager in the development of local creative assets working closely with creative agencies.

• Assisting with the commercial delivery of the brand incl. monitoring and reporting in market performance and action planning.

• Delivering campaigns and marketing activities: collaborating across functions, teams & agencies; bringing teams together to deliver strong digitally led, omnichannel marketing plans.

• Support the launch of innovations, working with cross-functional teams and the innovation project leads to deliver on time and in full, and review with post launch evaluations and 100 day tracking.

• Crafting content with a digital-first mindset and working closely with the Digital Hub team to deliver this with excellence to consumers, tracking, monitoring and assessing performance on-going in order to optimise and adapt.

• Representing Home Care within the business, as the key source of knowledge on brand performance and plans.

• Presenting to Retailers and other internal and external stakeholders.

• Managing projects & budgets.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Strong project management skills, with proven success of leading team/s to execute challenging & complex projects.

• The ability to work confidently and productively with multiple cross functional teams, with strong communication, presentation skills and stakeholder influencing abilities.

• Have a balance of creativity & science: can think creatively & strategically, with strong business mindset. Being commercially minded with proven track-record of successfully managing a P&L and budgets. Be creative with an eye for aesthetic & design, a passion for creative excellence & with experience developing communications and assets.

• Numeracy & data analysis skills for insight development.

• You are hungry to understand all the nuances of new categories/segments and emerging channels: have high standards, attention to detail and have an entrepreneurial and ‘can-do’ approach, be able to work with and unlock change and complexity to deliver results.

• Passion about our consumers, our brands & our purpose.

• Ambition to learn & proactivity in your own development: learning about the brands & Unilever, but also challenging process and bringing new ways of thinking & behaving.

• Be able to demonstrate the Unilever Standards of Leadership and champion the consumer, shopper and customer in everything they do. 

WHAT WE OFFER

Not only do we offer a competitive salary, but alsoour pensionscheme,an annual bonus,a freegym,a staffshopand shares. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and agile environment. We strive to achieve a family-friendly culture 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.

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