Assistant Brand Manager – Home Care UK

Job Title: Assistant Brand Manager – Home Care UK

Location: Kingston

Job Purpose

Unilever is one of the world’s leading FMCG companies, reaching 2 billion consumers a day with iconic brands across Food, Home and Personal Care. The Home Care UK business brings together some of Unilever’s biggest and most iconic global brands — Persil, Surf, Domestos, Cif and Comfort.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Unilever Home Care UK at a time of strong innovation and growth. As an Assistant Brand Manager, you will work closely with a Home Care Brand Lead to help bring brand strategy to life — from innovation launches to integrated marketing campaigns — on brands used by millions of consumers every day.

You will gain hands-on experience across end-to-end brand building in a fast-paced FMCG environment, with strong exposure to cross functional teams, agencies and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the Brand Lead in implementing the UK brand strategy and delivering impactful marketing programmes

• Own campaigns and marketing activity, working with cross functional teams and agencies to deliver digitally led & omnichannel plans
• Craft content with a digital first mindset, partnering with the agencies to deliver, track and optimise performance
• Support the commercial delivery of the brand by monitoring in market performance, identifying insights and contributing to action plans
• Play a key role in innovation and renovation projects, including launch execution, pack price architecture optimisation, post launch evaluation and 100 day tracking
• Act as a portfolio owner and key contact on brand and project performance, ensuring clarity, alignment and strong execution across teams.

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or a related discipline, with relevant experience or internships in FMCG marketing considered a strong advantage.

• Passion for turning insight into inspiring briefs, helping to building compelling brand stories and consumer experiences that delight and drive impact across touchpoints

• High curiosity for consumers, categories and emerging channels, with strong attention to detail and a proactive, can-do mindset
• Strong project management skills, with experience supporting or leading innovation, renovation or campaign delivery
• Confidence working with multiple cross-functional teams and agencies, with clear communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work with increasing autonomy and craft compelling narratives tailored to different audiences
• Strong organisational skills, agility and problem-solving ability in a fastmoving environment
• A balance of creativity and commercial thinking, with exposure to budgets, business performance and brand investment decisions
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills, with experience using data and insights (Nielsen / Kantar preferred)
• A consumer centric attitude, passion for brands and ambition to continuously learn and grow

NOTES

Location

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 early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, free gym, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, click here: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

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Why Join Home Care?

You’ll work on iconic brands, gain real ownership early in your career, and be part of a team that will stretch you, support you and invest in your development — giving you a strong platform for future growth at Unilever.