Assistant Manager/Manager - Customer Strategy & Planning

Unilever is currently hiring for Assistant Manager/Manager - Customer Strategy & Planning

Reports to: Head of Customer Strategy and Planning

Scope: Local

Location: Head Office

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.

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.  If you are passionate about, leading and developing the execution of fully integrated, shopper, customer and channel insights-based brand/category solutions and activities for customers/channels, then this role is just for you! You are required to Deliver strong, competitive and market beating growth through strong analytics of market and sales data that translates to insightful diagnostics and market strategies and actions. 

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Conducting sales diagnostics, analysis and taking proactive action based on insights.

• Conducting in-depth analysis of category and brand issues/opportunities and conducting reviews of trade category management plans with brand teams.

• Rigorously driving S&OP for the respective categories by collaborating with cross functional teams.

• Landing innovations related to the categories by being the single point of contact for any activities on trade level.

• Contributing to developing the perfect store by being the single point of contact for merchandising team. Review and updating perfect store strategy for channels on regular basis.

• Developing expertise on shoppers and customers by analyzing shopper and consumer behavior at field/channel level.

• Being responsible for the usage and management of TTS budgets and delivering category return on investment.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

Candidate should:

• Have a bachelor’s degree.

• Have 3-5 years FMCG industry exp. with background in Category Management.

• Possess strong understanding of customer operations and channel drivers.

• Have strong business and financial acumen.

• Have proven ability to demonstrate analytical thinking, data-driven decision making, and ability to influence through strategy story-telling through data and insights.

Skills

• Problem solving

• Data driven decision making

• Data analytics

• Story telling

• Design thinking

• Solution-optimization  

• Strategic Influencing 

• Customer experience

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 applicants 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.