**Who we are?**
On any given day, 2.5 billion people globally use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get more out of life. Many of our brands are well-known, household staples and old-time favourites including Dove, Rexona, Lynx, Vaseline, OMO/Persil, Surf, TRESemmé, Continental, Ben & Jerry's and Streets.
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**Job Summary**
As a **Brand Manager in Home Care**, you will play a critical role in Delivering our Clean Future strategy: Creating products that are unmissably superior, sustainable and great value. This position bridges strategic planning and operational excellence, offering a platform to take ownership of brand performance, consumer engagement, and category growth initiatives.
You will lead key projects, collaborate cross-functionally, and manage end-to-end brand plans to deliver both long-term vision and short-term results. The role requires creativity, strategic thinking, and strong executional discipline, with an emphasis on consumer love and data
- driven decision making.
**Role Responsibilities**:
- Act as a key support to Head of Marketing across Home Care portfolio.
- Strategic Brand Management: Develop and execute integrated brand marketing plans aligned with business objectives. Translate consumer and shopper insights into actionable strategies to drive brand performance.
- Innovation& Category Development: Work with cross-functional teams on innovation gatekeeping and innovation deployment. Monitor and analyse category and brand performance to optimize plans and identify growth opportunities.
- Campaign Execution: Partner with media agencies to design and implement disruptive media campaigns. Manage influence strategies, asset development, and in-store activation in collaboration with customer development teams.
- Budget & Performance Management: Own the brand budget, ensuring effective allocation and management. Track performance metrics and develop contingency plans to meet P&L targets.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including supply chain and customer development, to deliver seamless execution. Engage with global and regional teams to leverage assets and best practices.
- Leadership& Development: Guide and mentor team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and growth.
- Unlock an entrepreneurial growth mind set & agile way of working.
**What you will need to succeed**
**Experience & Qualifications**
- Strong foundations and experience in brand marketing, with exposure to brand development, activation, and customer/ channel marketing.
- Good understanding of all aspects of consumer insight, including monitoring brand health, measuring comms effectiveness, innovation insights and evaluation, and sales performance monitoring.
- Proven ability to develop and execute effective brand strategies and campaigns, strong project management skills.
- Experience managing budgets and working with media, creative agencies, and cross-functional teams.
- Strong influencing and people management skills - ability to engage/motivate colleagues and stakeholders behind a project, including the ability to reconcile and sell both commercial and purpose-driven agenda.
- Good strategic thinker, with an ability to balance long-term vision with short-term priorities.
- Entrepreneurial approach with a focus on experimentation and continuous learning.
- A willingness to perform in a role that covers a broad spectrum of responsibilities - both hands on and strategic.
- Commercial acumen and cross functional understanding and capabilities.
- Modern trade experience - preferably customer or shopper side.
- Experience in building alternate channels, highly valued.
- Experience with tools like Nielsen, Quantium, Iri, or similar for performance tracking.
**Skills**
- Category Strategy & Portfolio management
- P&L Accountability
- Customer Understanding
- Brand Marketing Planning
- Discipline & brilliance in execution
- Strong business acumen
**Key Interfaces**
- Marketing Leadership Team
- Brand Communities
- Cross functional teams: Marketing, CMI, CD, SC, R&D
- Media & Creative Agencies
**What awaits you at Unilever?**
The core of Unilever's culture is captured as Human, Purposeful, Accountable. You will be joining a dynamic, flexible, and inspirin