Ben & Jerry’s EU & ANZ Assistant Marketing Operations Manager

Job Title: Ben & Jerry’s EU & ANZ Assistant Marketing Operations Manager

Location: B&J's Datchet

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont by childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever since 2000. With an independent Board of Directors, Ben & Jerry’s advances its social mission while maintaining brand integrity. As one of Unilever’s iconic brands, with annual turnover exceeding €1 Billion, Ben & Jerry’s aims to double its business and expand its global impact. Our mission thrives on balancing growth with our grassroots and activist spirit, ensuring we remain a purpose-led organization with a connected 3-part mission.

Ben & Jerry’s 3-Part Mission:

Social mission: We initiate innovative ways to improve the quality of life locally, nationally, and internationally specifically on Climate Justice and Social Justice, Racial Justice, and Economic Justice  

Product mission: We make and distribute the finest quality natural ice cream and euphoric concoctions  

Economic mission: We operate our Company for sustainable, Profitable financial growth 

JOB PURPOSE

Today, Ben & Jerry’s is a successful business in Europe and one of the fastest growing brands within the total European Ice Cream portfolio. As a result, we are looking for a passionate marketing operations candidate to help deliver our ambition of doubling the size of the business while simultaneously becoming the most ethical food brand in the market. This dynamic role includes responsibility for over-seeing efficiencies in our operations and in turn, delivering savings that can be re-invested to drive even more impact through our values led sourcing commitment.

Are you passionate about data, data analysis, data management? Are you looking for an answer to all your questions in MS Excel? Do you love problem solving, productivity improvement, complexity reduction initiatives while keeping business growing mindset?

If the answer is 3 x YES, then this job is for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will be part of IC MKT Operations team, working very closely with B&J’s brand innovation team, managing European codes/artwork portfolio ~ 500 items.
• You will be the person, that knows your brand’s portfolio best. You will keep track of all products, factories, countries selling, changes in the portfolio, you will keep the library of product codes & approved AWs updated;
• You will facilitate brand’s “destination portfolio” – an annual portfolio review process leading discussion with mkt central, countries and cross-functional teams;
• You will prepare the brand for annual “AW season” – an E2E packaging change / update process from defining what is in scope to tracking every item deployment in the factory;
• You will arrange for product codes for your brand via Prisma tool;
• You will coordinate annual AW season for your brand, ensuring smooth, timely process in harmony with other brands. You will be working closely with AWE and marketing teams to deliver AW plan on time and in full.
• You will be the early adopter, user acceptance tester for any new system to be implemented in IC Europe
• When needed you will wear the “Artwork Production Specialist” hat supporting Artwork Excellence with artwork management in Blue.
• Administrate the codes, share with relevant functions.
• You will expand your skills and scope beyond European countries helping to set efficient operations for Asia and Australia.

ALL ABOUT YOU

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent organizational skills
• Proactivity and passion for taking initiative
• Passion to understand wider business picture
• Brand owner & consumer love mindset, delivering product safety and superior quality
• Ability to understand business codependences and build effective relationships
• Very strong communication
• Hold people accountable, track and trace action deliverables
• Strong influencer
• Business Partner mindset when interacting with internal network

REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent computer literacy, especially advanced MS Excell skills
• Experience with systems (eg. Blue, SAP, CRM, Prisma, SalesForce)
• Project management experience
• Relevant years’ experience in the business environment, preferably in position related to data and/or process management

NOTES

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, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, 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’ 

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. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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