Product Claims Assistant Manager – Consumer Technical Insight Team

Job description

Job Title: Product Claims Assistant Manager – Consumer Technical Insight Team
Salary: £24,800 – £31,000 PA
Benefits: Pension, BUPA, Bonus and much more
Location: Leeds factory
Travel: Up to 10%

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Unilever is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Dove, Persil, Flora 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 Dove Real Beauty campaign are driving our business. With over 35 brands in the UK covering home and personal care, foods 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.

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
The key job role is to lead the products' claims programme (i.e. on-pack, on TV advertisement, in digital, at point-of-sale) for Deodorants' category projects, in order to bring innovation to life for consumers, creating the maximum amount of news from our science and innovation. As such act as the technical team partner to Brand team in crafting the products' messages to consumers.

Key Challenges of the role
• Lead the planning and execution of the technical claims programme for a portfolio of global projects using a range of tools to maximise the products' messages to consumers.
• Work closely with a range of partners (Brand Development, Legal and Regulatory) to ensure products' claims are robustly supported with technical and consumer understanding and compliant to laws and regulations.

JOB SUMMARY
• Act as a core member of multiple Global Project Teams to lead the product's claims development work plan, ensuring OTIF delivery throughout the innovation funnel. Working in partnership with Consumer Technical Insights and Formulation Development teams to define, and ensure delivery of, the products' claims testing plan.
• Coordinate creation of all claims risk assessment documentation by gathering cross-functional and cluster / country input. Ensure all project risks are clearly identified in the documents and highlighted within the project team, liaising regularly with Legal Counsel and Regulatory Affairs. Provide recommendations on how to mitigate risk and simplify support data required.
• Capture all claims support data and write claims support dossiers. Ensuring dossiers are robustly defendable and aligned to defined best practise.
• Employ a sound understanding of the category and product technology to develop robust products' claims and products' demonstrations (demos).
• Work with external partners to define and execute claims workshops, evaluation testing and deliver output/ results OTIF.
• Analyse and understand the market and consumers as well as future trends, seeking insights and making recommendations on new opportunities.
• Ability to creatively solve issues and provide alternative claims articulation that mitigate risk. Able to use creative and language tools.
• Analyse and understand competitors' products claims environment. In the event of a competitive challenge execute and prepare defence testing and dossier.

KEY REQUIREMENTS
• Graduate degree in Sciences or Social Sciences; Chemistry background or equivalent experience would be beneficial but not essential.
• Project Management
• Products' claims development and technical support
• Creativity on use of language and good articulation skills
• Consumer insight generation
• Working with portfolio of medium-large projects
• Presentation skills

HOW TO APPLY
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