Assistant Brand Manager – Out of Home Ice Cream

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Brand Manager – Out of Home Ice Cream

Salary: Up to £38,000

Benefits : Pension, Bupa Healthcare, Bonus, free GYM, staff discounts.

Location: Leatherhead

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a really exciting time to join our Wall's Out of Home family and a rare opportunity to work across our entire portfolio of widely recognised and loved brands. We have a very strong Impulse brand portfolio with 72% market share, including Magnum, Cornetto, Solero, Calippo, Twister and Feast. In addition we also have many family favourites within our Take Home portfolio including Ben & Jerry's, Carte D'Or and Viennetta.

We have a huge growth ambition for the Out of Home channel. We are looking for an Assistant Brand Manager to help bring back the magic to ice cream by launching new and exciting innovations, leading an iconic Out of Home Marketing campaign and strengthening relationships with the cross functional and agency teams.

This role will enable you to strengthen your brand manager skills by having sole brand manager responsibility for the Solero and Mr Whippy brands. This includes P&L ownership, innovation launches and the development of long term brand strategies.

You will also play a key supporting role in the Ice Cream ‘Out of Home' team. Any prior experience of the ‘Out of Home' channel, Marketing, Sales or Category will be of advantage.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage and grow Unilever's presence in the ‘Out of Home' channel through brand-driven activation, renovation of current core portfolio, brilliant implementation of innovation platforms and working closely in a cross functional Out of Home Ice Cream team.

·  Management of the Wall's OOH Marketing Campaign. Lead the campaign strategy, media plans and creative execution as well as looking for ways to step change the campaign and make Wall's famous.
·  Own the relationship with the All Agency team across the media, social and creative agencies.
·  Management of Marketing budgets within agreed targets.
·  Develop strong relationships with the Global and European Marketing teams as well as the local cross-functional Out of Home team and wider UK Ice Cream brand team.
·  Brand management of the Solero and Mr Whippy brand including responsibility for innovation launches and ownership of brand P&Ls.
·  Champion the importance of our Take Home portfolio (including Magnum, Ben & Jerry's and Carte D'Or) within the Out of Home channel.
·  Bring local consumer and channel insight to everything we do.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

·  Strong proactivity and Accountability
·  Creative flair
·  Stakeholder management skills
·  Financial acumen (including P&L management and market performance)
·  Big picture thinking
·  Positive energy
·  Team player
·  Presentation skills
·  UK market knowledge would be preferred
·  Previous experience in Marketing would be preferred
·  Previous experience in the ‘Out of Home' channel would be preferred

REQUIRED LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS

·  Accountability & Responsibility
·  Growth Mindset
·  Consumer and Customer Focus
·  Bias for Action
·  Building Talent & Teams

COMPANY OVERVIEW

“I'm spreading the word about heart health to men and women ensuring greater awareness of heart disease amongst consumers. My actions are bringing health benefits to thousands of UK consumers and helping grow trust in our brand.” Sinead, Brand Manager, Flora Pro.activ

Unilever is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Flora, Dove, Persil and PG Tips. We have the huge ambition of doubling in size and improving billions of lives through of Sustainable Living Plan. And big ideas like the Flora Pro.activ Heart Health campaign are driving our business. But to achieve this, we need more outstanding people like Sinead. With over 35 brands in the UK covering foods, home, personal care and refreshments, the scope of activity and strength of expertise in Marketing is huge. Many of our brands have long-standing social missions. All offer fulfilling opportunities to gain valuable commercial insight and experience - working on great categories, taking on real challenges and making a lasting impact.

HOW TO APPLY

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Or to apply now, click on “Apply to this job”. All candidate applications are reviewed in accordance with the criteria outlined for the job role. Please note that the closing date for the receipt of applications is 2 nd June 2016

Candidates who have applied online can track their application through the candidate tracking link or, if you have any additional queries, you may contact the Recruitment hotline number on 0800 0284390.