Brand Building Manager Dove

Job description

BRAND BUILDING MANAGER DOVE

Main responsibilities are following:

Strategic Planning:

· Participates in preparation flowed by execution of brand marketing plans (design activities, execute, evaluate & put corrective actions if needed),
· Prepares the input to the parent brand and brand in category projects for the upcoming year,
· Leading the innovation execution on the market.

Operational Planning

· Prepares and submits Activity Plans on brand level. Makes sure that all activities are aligned with strategic development plan, key market drivers are utilized, key channels are covered, golden customer tailors are developed, and activities assure target realization,
· On-going market understanding at consumer and shopper level (brand measures, competition monitoring, media, and consumer/shopper behaviours),
· Owns and drives preparation and execution of full package to consumer/shopper for national promotions, launches, relaunches, activations.

Operations

· Actively contributes to Business Team work: owns & leads respective projects, puts forwards issues, shares updates with the team, gives feedback to others in the meetings; provides inputs to others,
· Responsible for shares development by granularity (monitoring and proposing actions to BT),
· Monitors and understands market shares development (external orientation) / uses it as a reference for activity plan preparation,
· Respective budget owner (responsibility to keep proper balance of total budget ATL, BTL); A&P & off budget management,
· Provides for planning input for Business Team results (according to the planning procedure); responsible for forecast accuracy on specific brand level (included in KPI's),
· Contributes to portfolio management (listings, delistings, in-outs, promo SKUs),
· Drives to resolve stock issues (residuals&obsoletes) on respective level,
· Price monitoring (positioning vs competition - channel perspective). Supports business unit leaders in price changes recommendation,
· Executes Brand Communication/Activation 360 degree (down to customer level as per Plan). Keeps consistency of brand communication across all communication channels and consumer and shopper touch points.

Communication

· Prepare presentations of the activity plan (context, objectives, priorities) and trade presentations for the sales meetings: category cascades, sales review,
· Big events communication to field force: Preparation of consumer/shopper/category/channel part based on inputs from other business units. Participation if needed.

Required skills and qualifications:

· At least 3 years experience in marketing,
· At least 2 years experience in managing brands,
· Master degree,
· Interpersonal and communications skills,
· Potential to understand all aspects of business management,
· Self-driven & pro-active person with high self-motivation,
· Ability to cope with stress,
· Accountable & forthright,
· Good creative and initiative skills,
· Fluency in English (verbal and written),
· Computer skills (MS Office).

We Offer You:

· Learning environment and personal development,
· A friendly atmosphere and a positive work culture at Unilever (possible of agile working),
· Work on the contract of employment,
· Work in a modern office in the centre of Warsaw,
· Attractive benefits package including: medical care, retirement package, life insurance, sport package, Unilever shop,
· Magnum Mondays.