Offers “Unilever”

Expires soon Unilever

Assistant CMI Manager – Global Oral Care

  • City of London (Greater London)
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Marketing

Job description

Salary: Up to £39,000 plus excellent benefits

Background:

Welcome to the world of smiles :)

This is an Assistant Manager position within the BPI structure for Global Oral Care. This position reports into the Global CMI Manager for the Smile Brand (Pepsodent/Signal) on driving strategic thought and project partnering for the Premium Health, Whitening and Toothbrushes platforms.

Exciting and fast-paced, in this role you will be expected to lead projects on your own (with timely support & consultation from the CMI Manager) and support the manager on larger strategic projects and key Premium projects – largely across Europe and South-east Asia.

The category is small, but fast growing (fastest in PC in H1 2017….go, go, go Oral Care :) ). We also have some really strong plans for the rest of the year and next. At the same time we are setting up for future growth in the coming years, so some phenomenal work (mix development, comms, digital) towards 2019 and onwards.

Having some exciting workstreams within the category and with the wider PC community. Millennials, Therapeutics, Naturals, Trendwatching, eCommerce etc. that you will have the opportunity to join/ lead. These serve a dual-purpose – bringing insights and inspiration to our businesses often via but not limited to cross category sharing but also enrich your personal learning on these subjects, segments and targets.

This position is part of the BPI CMI organization…where you will partnering a co-located Global Marketing team, but also collaborating closely with out COE partners, Cluster BPI partners. The associate manager will bring to bear consumer insights and drive strategic understanding, to provide actionable recommendations to achieve long-term growth for the brand & business.

Key Accountabilities:

· To be the (heard) voice of the consumer within project teams
· Handle day-to-day innovation and communication research projects via COEs starting with clear understanding of the business issues/ opportunities towards phenomenal briefing
· Support CMI manager in key strategic research projects and brand reviews and also provide insight and identify business opportunities from market understanding & analysis
· Provide a perspective towards brand decisions through extracting, interpreting and communicating research findings and continuous data, for a range of business activities
· Distil insights from both primary and secondary research on brand performance
· Develop and provide a deep understanding of consumers' lives and the relationship with our brands to create & drive significant Essential Care platform within the Oral Care business
· Develop consumer and market understanding by working closely with relevant CMI colleagues (mix COEs, cluster BPI, CTI) providing One-CMI point of view
· Monitor competitor's activities and market trends
· Inspire & guide research suppliers to consistently deliver actionable, clear, beneficial understanding
· Become an indispensable business partner with the Marketing, R&D and CTI teams for the assigned portfolio
· Handle assigned project budgets over and billing management for the team
· Drive CMI standard methodologies with regards to People World, and Knowledge Management
· Drive equally a real passion for accepting new tools and methodologies, Type B researches towards more agile research that is fit for purpose
· Develop understanding of key business processes e.g. Category/Brand Strategy, Integrated Brand Planning (IBP), Innovation and Renovation (IPM), Communication (IBC, BET)

Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications:

Key Requirements

· Bachelor degree & above; advanced degree or equivalent in Marketing, Marketing Research, or Social Science preferred
· Confirmed working experience; brand development CMI experience preferred
· Willingness to participate in few evening global telecoms

CMI Skills & Capabilities

· Understands the underlying principles, fundamentals and techniques of market research
· Analyzes and interprets market research data
· Experience of key qualitative and/or quantitative ad-hoc consumer and market understanding techniques
· Experience of continuous data sources; including consumer panel and retail audit
· Maximizes value from research suppliers and COE partners
· Operates authoritatively & independently to deliver research on-time, in full, while still engaging manager on key questions & conversations, also updates
· Proven high performance in project management
· Independent and fact based delivery of objective views needed for the business
· Providing credible recommendations to marketing business partners, based on a one consumer approach
· Using innate ability and passion to understand and empathize with consumers & customers to deliver valuable insights to the business
· MIS skills, detail orientation (attention to detail) and a flair for storytelling
· Bias for action & engagement, with a “can-do” attitude
· Cross functional team working
· An ever-curious mind!
Company Overview
Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland. We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment. We are developing brands for people's lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace.
Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a consistent difference.
Application Process
Online Application >> Digital Interview >> Face to face Interview >> Job Offer
Please note: as part of the job application, you will be asked to complete pre-screening questions. Completion of the pre-screening questions are mandatory in order to be considered. Please allow yourself plenty of time to complete both the application and pre-screening questions. If the pre-screening questions are partially answered or not at all, it will adversely affect the progress of your application. Please be aware that you will have to complete the pre-screening questions at once as you will be unable to return to it later.

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