Foods Brand Manager UKI - Mini Meals/Cooking Aids

Job Title: Foods UKI Brand Manager – Mini Meals/Cooking Aids
Location: Kingston, United Kingdom
 

ABOUT FOODS

Unilever's Foods division is home to some of the world most recognisable, power house brands. Brands that bring the taste everyone loves to brighten every day.

JOB PURPOSE

This role spans two of our priority verticals — Cooking Aids and Mini Meals — giving you the opportunity to work across our global Knorr brand, local jewel Pot Noodle, and newest Unilever Foods brand, Namdong. You will play a critical role in shaping local market strategy, driving execution excellence and delivering performance across these key cells. The role also includes people leadership, with responsibility for supporting the delivery and development of more junior talent.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Local Brand Strategy & Growth

• Lead for UK brand plans across Mini Meals and Cooking Aids platforms

• Translate EU/global strategy into locally relevant growth drivers

• Identify opportunities to win across occasions, channels and shoppers

In-Market Execution Excellence

• Own delivery of best-in-class activation plans (social first, retail media)

• Partner closely with CSP / Customer teams to land plans in key customers

• Ensure brilliant execution of all launches, campaigns and renovations

Performance & Business Ownership

• Own UK performance for your portfolio across Turnover, Market Share and Brand Health

• Lead monthly performance tracking and action planning

• Contribute to IBP cycles and in-year delivery

Innovation Deployment & Local Unlocks

• Lead the UK landing of specific innovation and renovation pipelines

• Adapt propositions for local relevance where needed

• Identify local-first opportunities to unlock growth

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead cross-functional alignment across CMI, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D and CD

• Act as the connector between BU platform teams and UK market

• Drive pace, clarity and accountability across stakeholders

Portfolio & Project Leadership

• Manage multiple brands/platforms simultaneously across two verticals

• Prioritise initiatives to maximise growth and return on investment

• Ensure projects land on time, in full

Team Development

• Coach and develop line report

• Play a role in fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture

ALL ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Highly passionate about our business, brands and developing, leading and executing our plans with excellence and as part of a wider Foods team. Keen to remove obstacles to achieve the impossible

• Proven leadership and team building skills, a positive, open, and collaborative style, and a natural curiosity

• Exceptional bias for action, with the ability to oversee and track multiple projects with varying priorities & due dates in a time pressured environment

• Strong strategic thinker, anticipating and acting on issues and opportunities

• Self-starting and ability to make significant progress quickly

• Strong external orientation with ability to maintain perspective in context

• Highly accountable and responsible for delivered results, with the drive and passion for growth & improvement

• Strong communicator and able to present and influence. Customer-facing experience is a bonus

• Excellent commercial and business acumen – both for external and internal measurement

• Evidence of always-on, social first campaigns including what it means for our categories, customers and our business. Finger on the pulse and share learnings and recommendations with the wider team

• Comfortable with ambiguity and a constantly evolving and exciting landscape both internally and externally. Excellent prioritisation skills, the ability to adapt and flex with changing business context and balance priorities across several projects & priorities.

WHAT WE OFFER

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 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, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (unilever.com).