Assistant Brand Manager Bouillon, Platform Africa Unilever

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What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
Innovation & Renovation
• Support the Bouillon Platform manager in the development of the Africa Bouillon Strategy, innovation roadmap within the category plan guidelines, to meet business goals and build brand equity.
• Leads innovation projects or clearly defined sections of a gold project with minimum supervision by brand development manager and lead/participate in various cross-functional teams – CMI, PTMs, Regional Brand Teams and externally with local support agencies such as Creative, Design, PR, sponsorship, activation and channel.
Uncover consumer insights, opportunity within Africa, framing and scoping into business and the development of regional innovation (including packaging) and communication programs working closely with the CMI team, agencies and other functional teams ie. supply chain, finance to ensure excellent delivery and implementation.
• Develop and deploy integrated communication.
• Work with the multifunctional team to implement the plan in the marketplace and monitor performance and progress of the support plans and act.
• Build productive working relationships with in-market country functions: Customer Development, CMI, regional category team, Finance and Supply Chain to manage the brand plans and innovations.

Brand Marketing Plans (BMPs)
• Assists in the translation of Brand Vision Plan into the BMP by ensuring the Brand Builders have everything they need to deliver an aligned BMP.
• Customize the mixes for each country, leveraging synergies and local insight and deliver country specific toolkits
• Support the local marketing team with expertise and best practices to unlock brand operational and in-market challenges including monitoring of brand performance on a monthly and quarterly basis.

Key Relationships/Teams
• Works closely with local Brand Building teams in the deployment of brand communication idea for local markets and channels.
• Work closely with cross-functional innovation teams (using IPM tools to support decision making and communication) including local Brand Building teams, supply chain and customer and category development in the region to ensure successful/flawless implementation
• Assist in working with agencies to deliver strategically sound messages in line with communication strategy.

What You Need to Succeed
• Responsible for driving top line growth for specific markets, (which include Brand/Category TO, PBI), medium term category and brands’ share targets as well as specific marketing objectives relating to brand health and equity.
• Delivery of specific milestones/elements of projects within the category/platform 8Q rolling plan, On time & In Full.
• Ensure execution and cascade of one seamless, unified connected Global brand feel in local markets and customization of where regionally relevant.

Experiences & Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree, post graduate degree an advantage.
• Two/Three years marketing experience
• Stakeholder management, Project management.

Skills
• Understanding customers and shoppers.
• Develops and launches consumer and shopper relevant innovations and relaunches.
• Monitors progress & takes action.
• Core aspects underpinning all skills: Creativity, Empathy, Obsession with brands & consumers, Sense of Aesthetics, Analytical Thinking & Rigor.

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
o 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.
o PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
o CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
o PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
o AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

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