Brand Manager

Position:Brand Manager

Location:Vientiane Capital, Laos

Position Overview 

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes: use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best.

The Job: You will be a member of one of the Business Unit team of Unilever and will work to define one or more business models to enter a segment with existing, entrenched competitors. You will partner with your cross-functional team to explore the consumer, customer, competitive and financial implications of entering a new category and what it will take to be successful (and potentially disrupt a new category for Unilever!). Much focus and priority will be against exploring disruptive, unexpected ways to build a new or existing brand through distribution channels, fulfillment, format, and micro-targeting. 

Key Responsibilities

• Craft and lead the discussion on category growth strategy in short-term and mid-term
• Lead the assigned brand campaigns and innovations to drive business growth
• Lead external agencies in creating new campaigns and activations and deployment of mixes and campaigns
• Lead on-going analysis and review of consumer, category, channel/customer and competitive information as part of a situation assessment on the performance of the assigned portfolio and identify issues & opportunities and hence the growth opportunities.
• Responsible for launch and network management (innovation, relaunch product), building launch plans, customer sell-in and legal & regulatory issues and managing brand budget.
• Builds productive working relationship with cross functionals: sales team, customer strategic planning, CMI, global brand team, finance, and supply chain to manage campaigns’ day to day operations, and external partners and agencies.

Qualifications

• Experiences as Brand or Marketing in product/brand management.
• Experiences working with cross functional environment.
• Good insightful thinking, problem solving, analytical skill.
• Able to balance multiple priorities and meet deadline.
• Able to work independently and as a team.
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit with resourcefulness and a sustainable outlook.
• Able to make decisions despite uncertainty with rationality, logic, and trend.

• Comfortable with number and data learning and management
• Learning agility and adaptability in a demanding and fast-paced environment
• Good written and verbal communication in both Lao and English
• Open to learn and experiment new initiative.

We are seeking an energetic, results-driven individual with proven leadership abilities and passion for consumers and building brands. The ideal candidate will possess a university degree with an emphasis in communications and/or business and relevant marketing experience.  Candidates should also exhibit excellent interpersonal skills, strong analytical abilities with proven track record of turning insights into action, organizational skills, creativity and strong project management skills and experience. The individual is expected to exercise judgment in coordinating and implementing various projects to completion under tight deadlines and to be able to lead projects and influence others.  

Key Candidate Competencies Include: 

• Growth Mindset 
• Bias for Action 
• Team Commitment/Team Leadership 

• Organizational Awareness 

Interested candidates can submit your application via email recruitment.laos@unilever.com

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.