Associate Brand Manager, Digital & Social-First Marketing - Knorr

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Job Purpose

Working at Unilever as the Associate Brand Manager for the North American Foods Business Unit means you are joining a world-class organization while driving growth & best-in-class communications for Unilever’s second-largest global brand in Unilever Foods’ largest market.   

The role will report into the Senior Manager, Digital & Social-First Marketing and will suit an ambitious marketer who is looking to further their experience in brand engagement & digital content excellence in the local US market. This role will sit on the Knorr North America team, working closely with the global & local brand team, agency partners, and cross-functional peers in Digital, PR, Media, and Consumer Insights. The successful candidate must be able to work independently, create and maintain great relationships with agencies and cross functional teams, have an analytical mind, and strong attention to detail. The role offers plenty of scope for creativity and independent leadership, while working closely with senior leadership on high-profile projects.   

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be: 

• Help drive strategy, planning, and execution related to digital marketing while tracking against key metrics
• Work closely with Demand Creation and Innovation teams to ensure digital and social best practices are always top of mind and embedded in all consumer touchpoints. You will play a key role bringing “social-first” thinking to full-funnel brand engagement ideas
• Support the development of influencer marketing strategy and lead execution of influencer content
• Lead organic social & community management strategy for Knorr USA (including social listening, overseeing content creation & deployment of assets, and ongoing reporting)
• Brand website: work with cross-functional UX and tech partners to identify new tools to test, optimize search strategy, and monitor consumer sentiment
• Drive best in class 7OA assets with engaging content to drive conversion
• Bring the outside in through new AI tools, collaborating with global teams to pilot.
• Test, learn, and optimize within content, audience segmentation, and media channels (e.g. digital video, social, display, audio, SEM, and email marketing)
• Help define key performance indicators, benchmarks, and goals for digital marketing campaigns. Develop and share regular reports outlining campaign performance.

What You Will Need To Succeed: 

• You have a passion for all things marketing: Championing the consumer, shopper and customer in everything you do. 

• You are a foodie: You love food and are passionate about raising the bar in delivering delicious taste led comms and you are tuned into digital food trends. 

• You value relationships: You are a strong communicator that can form meaningful, trusting relationships with key partners to enable great results.  

• You are a doer: you are passionate about making things happen, avoiding over-debate, and always keeping end goal in sight. You have a desire to make things happen & break down walls to do so. 

• You are a full-funnel thinker: as communication has evolved in digital, social, and commerce, you need to be able to partner with shopper marketing and sales teams to shape best in class digital plans, from social media communication to ecommerce. 

• You are results-oriented: Performance marketing mindset is critical. Not only do you wish to deliver great creative, but you want to measure results, optimize, and prove out success.  

Experiences & Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree required, minimum 3 years of Brand, Category or CPG Marketing experience. Knowledge of the US market would be preferable.
• Strong oral/written and presentation skills; ability to tailor your communication style across a multitude of disciplines leadership levels. 

• Experience with consumer marketing programs, working with multiple agencies & stakeholders. Strong knowledge of the digital and social landscape is a must!

• Commercial understanding preferred to ensure successful lower funnel partnership & execution.  

• An eye for aesthetic design to ensure unmissable campaigns and assets.  

• Strong analytical acumen to drive agility, strategy execution and performance.  

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.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $84,400 to $126,600. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

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Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

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Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.

If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected]. Please note: This email is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry about positions or application statuses. The Protected Veterans or Individuals with Disabilities AAP narratives are available for inspection by any employee or applicant for employment Monday through Friday during normal business hours at establishment.