Associate Director, Marketing Procurement, Wellbeing Collective

Background and Purpose of the Job

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Unilever’s highest growth Business Unit, and largest cell of Beauty and Wellbeing, the Wellbeing Collective. The Wellbeing Collective is the platform team responsible for providing centralized services at scale, including Procurement, to the Wellbeing operating companies (OpCos), which include Liquid IV, Nutrafol, Olly, Smartypants, Onnit, Welly, and others.

In this role, you will lead Marketing Procurement for the Wellbeing Collective, across a rapidly growing spend of approximately €700M. The focus of this role will be on media investment optimization (approximately 80% of the spend), to be conducted in partnership with the VP of eCommerce and Media, as well as the respective CMOs within the Wellbeing Collective.

Within the media remit, this role will focus on 4 key areas for value creation: upfront negotiations on large media deals, agency contract negotiations, E2E media value chain transparency and cost optimization, and AI-related tool cost optimization and strategy development.

In addition to the media scope described above, this role will also be responsible for driving value across ex-media spend, prioritizing against the highest value opportunities in partnership with media leadership in the OpCo’s across creative agencies, PR, Social, digital, and Ad production services.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading the marketing procurement strategy end-to-end, including partnership strategy, contracting, annual negotiations, and strategic tool rollouts.

The geographic scope of this role will be 90% USA, and 10% International Expansion (ex-USA).

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Outstanding communication skills: spoken, visual, and written

• A deep understanding of marketing and media, ideally having previously worked in the marketing procurement space

• Be an influencer who gets things done with a high level of sustainability and effectiveness

• A very high level of business acumen who can interact with and “speak the language” of senior executives and general managers

• Comfortable managing across organizational cultures, as the Wellbeing Collective is the bridge across Operating Companies, and between Operating Companies and the broader Unilever team  

• Be an expert at stakeholder management and engagement

• A minimum of a Bachelor Degree Supply Chain, Business, Engineering. MBA is a plus.

• Minimum 8 years general business experience but preferably within Marketing or Procurement (Packaging, Marketing and Business Services, Logistics, Contract Manufacturing)

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