Category Manager PC NAME

Unilever

Dubai, UAE

Ref: MP598-263

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Company Profile:

Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.

Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.

Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.

Role Description:
• The role is to be part of the Beauty & Personal Care Central Team for NAME and work on the 20s & 10s innovations, platform strategies & NAME BPC key thrusts plan into action.
• A key responsibility of this role is to land the innovations funnel created for NAME overseeing the 70s innovations indirectly and owning the launch of 20s and 10s across key categories directly
• This needs to be done through constant collaboration with the CCBTs within NAME and with the global category / brand teams
• Another key deliverable is also to lead some platform initiatives like H&B channel portfolio strategy, USLP agenda for NAME etc and ensure the plan is delivered
• Delivers strategic analysis and recommendations in partnership with Finance and CMI- overseeing overall NAME portfolio as part of annual strategic planning process
• Present one NAME picture on key categories like Skin Cleansing and Skin Care and lead GCLT discussions and strategic connects with the category teams

Key Deliverables:

• Annual category strategy - for key categories, portfolio review and annual plan development at a NAME level. Help set the right approach for NAME PC at a big C and small C lens for short/mid/long term basis
• Run the complex new brand launches and 20s directly from the central team
• Oversee the innovations process across NAME through the gate keeping process
• Work with different business units, agency teams to drive specific marketing initiatives
• Drive NAME level initiatives on purpose and plastics (overall USLP)
• Competitive intelligence - leading the quarterly review of global launches/media/performance and doing targeted deep dives on significant competitive threats.
• Portfolio play answering the rapid fragmentation especially in Arabia- provide analysis and facilitate engagement with categories on overall category ambitions and the role of each brand in the portfolio to achieve the broader business objectives.

Requirements


Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications:

• The role offers opportunities to demonstrate all of our Standards of Leadership but most particularly:
- Passion for high performance
- Consumer Love
- Agility
- Business acumen
• High resourcefulness and ability to navigate the complex global and local organization to get the job done with speed
• Strong analytical ability
• Strong marketing thinking or high potential for the same. Ability to judge mixes and improvise
• Proven track record of strong business, analytical and organisational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to deliver through relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Passion, drive and desire to win
• An appetite for challenge, with a hardworking, tenacious attitude.

About the Company

Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.

Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.

From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.

We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.

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Category Manager salaries in UAE

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AED 16,500

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