Job Title: Category Management Executive; Beauty and Wellbeing

Location: Kingston     

Full time

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’  

JOB PURPOSE

An externally facing role which is about building collaborative relationships with our UK retailers to drive long term and sustainable category growth. You will support the Category Manager in the development of joint category plans and strategies that deliver mutual growth for our retailers and for Unilever. Influencing our retailers through providing best in class customer and shopper insight which will inform range assortment, merchandising as well as price and promotional recommendations.      

RESPONSIBILITIES

Build collaborative and independent relationships with key retailer stakeholders (buyers, merchandisers) to become a trusted partnerAnalysis and interpretation of multiple customer and shopper data sources to generate actionable insights on category risks and opportunitiesDeliver Category range review recommendations which focus on the optimal assortment and merchandising supported by clear insight and rationale across priority customersDeliver key category/customer reporting and ad hoc analysis as requiredBuilding network of relationships internally with key stakeholders

ALL ABOUT YOU

Always bring your best self and inspire others to do the sameConstantly curious, bringing ideas to improve the status quoPassionate about retail trends, shopper insights and driving category growth within FMCG

KEY SKIILS

Good communication skillsRelationship building with retailer contacts and internal colleaguesAnalytically minded with a high level of curiosity and drive to understand the ‘what’ and ‘why’Good working knowledge of excelHigh level of presentation skillsInfluencing skills through story tellingAbility to embrace conflicting demands and adapt to changing prioritiesExperience working with Nielsen, IRI or Kantar data (helpful but not essential)

Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact our Talent Partner, Kayleigh Reynolds on Kayleigh.Reynolds@unilever.com 

What We Offer 

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. 

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self.