Associate Performance Lead, Nexxus & Tresemme – Amazon Retail Marketing

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JOB PURPOSE
As Associate Performance Lead, you will drive full-funnel performance across Amazon for Nexxus and Tresemme, optimizing media, content, and portfolio strategy to deliver measurable growth. You operate within the Media & Retailer Marketing team, enabling Unilever’s transformation toward performance-led, consumer-centric retail marketing.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

You are a performance-driven marketer with a sharp analytical mindset and a passion for unlocking growth and driving results through media, content, and data. You thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and bring a general manager mentality to your work—balancing growth with profitability. You’re fluent in Excel, the broader Microsoft 365 suite, and retail media platforms, and you know how to turn data into insights that drive action. You’re energized by the challenge of driving brand and category performance in a dynamic retail ecosystem like Amazon.

• Drive Full-Funnel Performance
  You will lead the performance agenda for Nexxus and Tresemme on Amazon, managing media, content, and portfolio levers to deliver against KPIs like ROAS, margin, and share growth. You use Excel and other tools to analyze data, identify trends, and inform strategy, optimizing execution across the consumer journey.
• Lead Retail Media Activation
  You own the planning, activation and optimization of Amazon Ads across search, display, and audience targeting. You ensure media investments are efficient, effective, and aligned to business goals—always balancing spend with return.
• Enable Portfolio Growth
  You collaborate with the brand, finance and sales teams to bring innovation to life, expand core assortment and optimize for profitability and consumer relevance.
• Optimize the Digital Shelf
  You enhance brand presence and conversion through content excellence, site merchandising, and promotional strategy—leveraging tools and analytics to continuously improve performance.
• Operate as a Business Owner
  You manage budgets, analyze POS and media data, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver results. You apply operational rigor and strategic thinking to make smart, data-backed decisions.
• Champion Competitiveness
  You monitor market dynamics and competitor activity to ensure Unilever’s Hair Care brands are set up to win. You lead deep dives and translate insights into action plans that drive growth.
• Collaborate & Influence
  You work across brand, category, media, and customer teams (Culture Squads) to align strategies and unlock synergies. You’re a subject matter expert who knows the right questions to ask and the right levers to pull.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
• 3+ years in Brand Marketing, Digital, or eCommerce.
• Proven expertise in Amazon Ads and retail media platforms.
• Experience with tools like Circana and Numerator.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft 365 Suite (Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint) and comfort working with datasets
• Demonstrated success in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Skills

• A bias for action and accountability, with a passion for driving category growth.

• Strong analytical acumen and strategic thinking.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A competitive mindset and deep curiosity about consumer behavior and market dynamics.

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.

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $86,080 to $129,120. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

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