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Marketing Specialist at Unilever

Marketing Specialist at Unilever

 Job Title: Marketing Specialist, Pepsodent 

Job Category: Marketing

Location: Lagos

Job Schedule: Full-Time

On-Site

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.

Job Purpose

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are passionate about creating value for brands and teams and working with teams to grow, then this role is just for you!

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

  • Drive the value & volume-led growth agenda on the brand by leading Innovations, managing BLG campaigns based on category growth principles
  • End to End brand management role for the brand
  • Focus on incremental future growth opportunities, as well as management of existing core business
  • End to end P&L responsibility, including S&OP management
  • Budget (BMI) management to be vigorously controlled to ensure full delivery of projects
  • Leadership / support of NRM or SC Activity Requests: e.g. introduction of new pack sizes / formats for existing mixes
  • Developing & executing Inspiring brand communications in partnership with creative agencies
  • Leading Integrated Brand Planning Process (annual IBP)
  • Management of Brand’s digital strategy and electronic communications
  • Key relationships:

Customer Development, Shopper Marketing, Supply Chain, Consumer Market Insights, Research and Development, Finance Business Partners & Global and Local teams where relevant

Experiences & Qualifications

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

  • Proven Experiential Marketing: Typically 3+ years of experience directly conceiving, planning, and executing brand activations, ideally with a digital-first approach.
  • Shopper Journey Optimisation: Demonstrated success in analysing and improving customer experiences across multiple touchpoints (online store, social media, shelf, etc.)
  • Project Management Prowess: Evidence of managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, budgets, and timelines, ensuring successful delivery and budget ROI.
  • Digital Marketing Expertise: Confidence with digital marketing channels, tactics, and their role in amplifying brand experiences.
  • Innovation Execution: success in delivering brand experiences across the shopper journey to drive trial, desire and conversion.

Skills

  • Project leadership and business acumen
  • Strong numeracy skills
  • Ability to deliver operationally, while thinking ahead of the long-term growth strategy
  • Cross-functional relationship management: Agencies, Customer Development, Shopper Marketing, Supply Chain, Consumer Market Insights, Research and Development, Finance Business Partners
  • Strong levels of growth and ownership mindset – a self-starter with a winning and competitive mindset
  • Bias for action and drive – willingness to get things done with speed & efficiency, and comfortable working independently to deliver agreed goals
  • Consumer and customer focus – curiosity, ability to uncover relevant insights and translate these into actionable plans
  • Rigour and order – ability to identify important issues and work through complex problems in an accurate and in-depth way.
  • A deep seeded passion for exploding the brand and marketing with a purpose with the consumer always top of mind

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.
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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.

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.

How to Apply
Interested persons should click here to apply

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