Home Care Channels Customer Strategy & Planning Assistant Manager

Role Title: Home Care Channels Customer Strategy and Planning Assistant Manager

Work Level: 1C

Location: Bonifacio Stopover Corporate Center (Philippines)

The Home Care Channels Customer Strategy and Planning Assistant Manager delivers consistent, competitive, and profitable growth by translating the Home Care brand strategies into holistic category growth plans nationwide. This requires an in-depth understanding of category-channel portfolio opportunities and competitiveness, that leads to the development and deployment of strong shopper marketing programs activating the 4Ps (product, price, place, promo) that considers category trends/ opportunities, shopper needs, and retailer/channel priorities, while ensuring investment efficiency.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are highly analytical, great with people stakeholder relationships, and able to deliver through others then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Develop and deploy category growth strategy of the brand based on category data, shopper insights, and retailer/channel opportunities
• Translate insights into business building opportunities within specific customers/channels
• Develop and deploy category commercial plans and define right investment model to deliver competitive and profitable business results
• Develop and deploy distribution and competitiveness strategies by identifying issues and opportunities thru a data-driven approach
• Defines an efficient and seamless category and channel operations blueprint to ensure our brands win shoppers
• Lead execution of plans and activities by ensuring on-time and in-full execution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance to drive category-channel growth agenda internally in Unilever

Skills

• Strategic, collaborative, proactive, detail-oriented, data-driven, innovative/creative.
• Shopper- and consumer-obsessed: strives to understand consumers and shoppers to know the right triggers and barriers to drive behavioural change.
• Data-driven creator: doesn’t just analyse data, but is able to translate data into actionable insights to create category growth programs with channels and retailers.
• Curious about the unknown and finds proactive ways to learn and upskill, unlock new ways of doing things or new approaches to old processes to lead to pioneering executions.
• Business acumen and ownership mindset: understands key levers to deliver business results and takes ownership of results.
• Project Management and Communication skills: able to manage project networks, can clearly and effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional partners to land projects and shared objectives OTIF.
• Strategic influencing: able to drive category agenda with different high-level stakeholders and partners to deliver business objectives.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

We highly encourage applicants to exclude information on age, gender, and school/s in view of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Unilever assesses candidates based on skills, performance, experience and leadership.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.