Junior Brand Manager

Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Join us as Junior Brand Manager

Function: Marketing

Location: Unilever Sri Lanka Head Office, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Terms & Conditions: Full Time.

ABOUT UNILEVER

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.

Would you like to work in a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do? You can create a better business and better world by working on brands that are loved and improve the lives of millions while you learn from brilliant business leaders!

We have an opportunity for Junior Brand Manager, see more information below.

But first, an important message. Diversity is one of our most relevant pillars in people management and our main objective is to develop an internal environment open to the multiplicity of world views, through inclusion without stereotypes. This allows us to value the best professionals, bringing together different profiles and operating styles, and to face with greater propriety the current and future challenges of the company.

At Unilever, more than 50% of leadership positions are held by women. And we want more diversity in our company. In this way, we consider all candidates for our vacancies, regardless of disability, race, color, religion, gender and gender identity, nationality, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, or any other diversity.

Job Purpose As the Junior Brand Manager, you will solely be responsible for driving and delivering agreed brand objectives. You will work closely with cross functional teams to ensure all plans for brand promotion, innovation, brand budgets etc are in place and work closely external agencies in developing and landing advertising strategies for your brand. You will report to the category lead of your respective brand category.

Responsibilities:

Brand Management

Support the development and execution of core business annual growth plans.

Manage brand performance, tracking key business, market share, and profitability metrics.

Lead deployment of innovations, renovations, consumer activations, and consumer promotions.

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver best-in-class execution across priority channels.

Translate consumer and market insights into actionable growth opportunities.

Digital Performance

Lead the Skin Care digital effectiveness agenda across paid, owned, and earned channels.

Evaluate campaign and content performance using Unilever-approved effectiveness measurement frameworks and tools.

Develop actionable recommendations to improve creative quality, consumer engagement, conversion performance, and marketing effectiveness.

Assess assets against key creative effectiveness principles and digital best-practice standards prior to deployment.

Identify opportunities to optimize and repurpose content across platforms, audiences, and consumer touchpoints.

Improve asset productivity by extending content life cycles and reducing duplication.

Success Measures

Delivery of business and market share targets.

Successful execution of campaigns and other growth initiatives.

Improvement in digital content and campaign effectiveness metrics within skin care.

Increased productivity and utilization of digital marketing assets.

Your key stakeholders will be..

Media agencies

Category Head

Brand Managers/ Senior Brand Managers

Marketing Director

Trade Category team

Supply & Network Planning team

Regulatory team

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in marketing, Business Management, or a related field.

1-2 years of experience in Brand Management, Marketing, Digital Marketing, or Analytics.

Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability, and project management skills.

Experience working with agencies and interpreting campaign performance data.

Passion for beauty, consumer trends, and digital innovation.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

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.