Brand Manager

**The Purpose of Role**:
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and drive Unilever’s growth engine into the future Using breakthrough thinking and category, consumer, brand and customer understanding to create a clear and ambitious growth vision and strategy for the assigned portfolio. This is a role of high strategic importance for the assigned portfolio. You’ll be part of the global marketing team working across a range of varied and exciting brand projects, from our big bang national advertising campaigns to building a standout brand experience across direct-to-consumer channels.

**Who we are looking for**
We are looking for a driven, proactive, creative and organized Brand Manager who will make this ideal future a reality for the business. The Brand Manager will be responsible for leading the activation of our brand strategy in Malaysia across consumer-facing channels, building stronger purpose-driven brand equity for our brands while impacting the overall category/brand by designing the strategy of one of our critical Innovations Pillar. In this journey, the Brand Manager will have high exposure to key global brands and senior stakeholders and local markets to grow the brand.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead the development of the Brand Marketing Plan.
- Lead a multi-functional team to implement plans in the marketplace and monitor the performance of the support plans.
- Lead in innovation, activation, advertising, and promotion for the deployment of Brand Marketing Plan and budget.
- Analyze brand Profit and Loss (P&L) and drive the profitability of the brand.
- Lead in ongoing analysis and review of consumer, category, channel/customer, and competitive information as part of a situation assessment of brand performance and identify growth opportunities.
- Build productive working relationships with customer development/sales team, Consumer Market Insights, regional category team, finance, and supply chain to manage brand’s day-to-day operations, and external partners and agencies.
- Support creation of the National Category Building Plan based on viewing Category Strategy through the lens of the local market reality.
- Provide input to volume forecasting, financial updates and monitor key indicators and drivers of brand performance (6Ps). Recommend solutions and implement improvements to meet annual targets.
- Involve in launch management, building launch plans, customer sell-in and legal and regulatory issues.
- Manage the assigned brand’s new product launch assessment and deployment in the local market, including P&L, pricing, place and positioning.

**Key Stakeholders**:

- Internal: Global Brand custodians, Local and Global Cross-functional teams - Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Development, Local marketing expert team (Market Research, Digital)
- External: Customers, Creative and Media agencies, Regulatory authorities

**Essential Experience/Skill/Knowledge**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or equivalent.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in brand/product management/marketing, preferably in the consumer goods industry.
- Proven track record of delivering topline and marketing KPIs (driving share and penetration).
- Experience in managing agencies.
- Experience in managing digital channels and programs: Digital demand creation and fulfillment.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing effective and integrated brand plans.

**Desirable Experience/Skill/Knowledge**:

- You are always obsessive in consumer Intimacy and completely immersed in the world of the consumer, intimately understanding consumers' current needs and curious about future needs.
- You embrace a high growth mindset with a strong love for consumers, shoppers and customers.
- You are excellent in communication channel management with an integrated program of brand communication in the most cost-effective way.
- You are knowledgeable in end-to-end marketing management, ability to understand the big picture and are comfortable with details and managing the operations.
- You are equipped with media-savvy particularly in digital marketing and know-how.
- You are experienced in proven project and budget management.
- You are multitasking and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

**How to Apply**:
**About Unilever**:

- 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. Every day, many Malaysian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life-giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.- Every individual