Junior Brand Manager SEA Foods

Unilever is currently hiring for aJunior Brand Manager – South East Africa (SEA) Foods

Reports to: Marketing Manager South East Africa (SEA) Foods  

Scope: South East Africa

Location: Johannesburg

Terms & Conditions: Full time

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

NUTRITION SOUTHERN AFRICA

Our vision is to be a world class value creating Foods business that delivers consistent category value, by providing affordable, deliciously nutritious foods, powered by trusted strong brands in every South African kitchen every day. The SNA Foods business is a profitable business valued at R5.5bn.

Foods Southern Africa consists of 3 core categories: Seasonings (25 %) Bouillons (18 %) Soup (40%). With high volume and value share that we must focus on landing our top dish strategy to maintain and grow share across modern trade and traditional trade.

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.  Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small as well as drive category thought leadership and growth, that will make our business win and grow. You will have access to brilliant business leaders and colleagues locally and in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. 

If you are able to:

• Support the SEA marketing manager in the growth agenda of the Foods Business Group across Southern African Countries which include Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique, DRC, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius and Zambia – regular travel into these markets for customer/consumer engagements is a pre-requisite.

• Support the SEA marketing manager to drive growth and brand power of the Royco Master brand, innovation and renovation agenda of Royco in South East Africa.

• Operate at a high level of autonomy optimising our plans to meet the changing requirements of customer, consumer and business needs.

• Support the SEA marketing manager in developing the growth strategy and ensuring execution thereof.

Then this job is for you

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Job Scope:

•  Drive the value & volume led growth agenda on the respective brand by leading Innovations, managing BLG campaigns based on category growth principles

• Focus on incremental future growth opportunities, as well as management of existing core business

• End to end P&L responsibility, including S&OP management

• Budget (BMI) management to be vigorously controlled to ensure full delivery of projects

• Leadership of several Innovation Projects – e.g. development of new mixes / launch into new categories etc.

• Leadership / support of NRM or SC Activity Requests: e.g. introduction of new pack sizes / formats for existing mixes

• Developing & executing Inspiring brand communications in partnership with creative agencies

• Leading Integrated Brand Planning Process (annual IBP)

• Management of SEA digital strategy and ecomm

Key Relationships:

• Build and maintain ongoing relationship with regional BT & ALT, mktg, finance, CMI, R&D, SC, customer and planning teams to secure optimal outputs & deliverables

• Coordination of periodic updates to BT & ALT for cross functional lead alignment

• Enable the coordination of the various sources of CMI data available to ensure holistic insights and sharp needs are developed. 

• Work closely with the Net Revenue Management (NRM) team to assess and operationalise opportunities in partnership with brand and customer teams.

Experiences & Qualifications

• Degree in Marketing, Business and / or Commerce

• A minimum of 2 years in Marketing, Branding and Digital Marketing experience

Skills

• Project leadership and business acumen

• Strong numeracy skills

• Ability to deliver operationally, while thinking ahead of the long-term growth strategy

• Cross-functional relationship management: Agencies, Customer Development, Shopper Marketing, Supply Chain, Consumer Market Insights, Research and Development, Finance Business Partners

• Strong levels of growth and ownership mindset – a self-starter with a winning and competitive mindset

• Bias for action and drive – willingness to get things done with speed & efficiency, and comfortable working independently to deliver agreed goals

• Consumer and customer focus – curiosity, ability to uncover relevant insights and translate these into actionable plans

• Rigour and order – ability to identify important issues and work through complex problems in an accurate and in-depth way.

• A deep seeded passion for exploding the nutrition category and marketing with a purpose with the consumer always top of mind

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.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

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.