Category Assistant Manager – Beauty & Wellbeing

ABOUT UNILEVER INTERNATIONAL

Do you want to work for Unilever’s fastest growing cluster that has more than tripled its size 6 years and has an ambition to become EUR 5bn by 2025? Do you want the opportunity to work in a fast paced, high growth environment? If so the Unilever Korea, Assistant Category Leader - Skin , is for you!

Unilever International is Unilever’s White Space Arm. Our purpose is to ‘Serve the Underserved and Make a Difference’. We work as a ‘fully independent yet fully integrated Go-To-Market with various MCOs through hubs in US, Europe, Africa, AMET, South Asia, SEAA and North Asia to fill white spaces for Unilever. On one hand, we are completely responsible for building all of Unilever’s brands in white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia and on the other we are now leading the launches of big brands like Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Fair & Lovely, Tresemme among others into big markets like the US, China, Western Europe and SEAA.

As Unilever’s growth engine, we are thirdly responsible for creating a global white space business in alternate channels like Duty Free (66bn$ globally), E Commerce Seeding in China and India, marketing to Institutional partners like the United Nations and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who miss their home brands.

Singapore is UI’s global hub which leads strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. Speed is the mantra for Unilever International’s success and this role will epitomise that. Hence as a game changer business, here are some of the rules we live by:

• We will be the fastest route to market globally
• We take challenges which no others take
• Impossible is an opinion, not a fact
• Speed is our Currency
• When brands are built right, they can last a lifetime

ABOUT UNILEVER KOREA

Unilever Korea is one of the white space geographies managed by Unilever International, since 2015. It is a unique business unit of UI as it is the only Operating Company that is managed by UI end-to-end. Some key facts about this Opco:

• Estimated 2021 Turnover: E 80 M
• Number of Employees (including Contract-based): 110 employees
• Number of Sites: Headquartered out of Seoul & Daejeon (SC, R&D)
• Key Brands: Core Brands – Dove, Vaseline, Pond’s, Lipton, Magnum, Lipton, Vaseline
• Future Core – B&J, Snuggle, Closeup, Seventh Generation, Knorr
• Availability in Specific Channel : Lifebuoy, St.Ives, Clear, TRESemme, Sunsilk
• Key Channels: Hyper, Super, Health & Beauty, Ecommerce, Horeca B2B & Exports
• Innovations: Made-In-Korea Program – leveraging on 3P Manufacturers to develop and launch innovations with speed for both domestic and export markets
• Starting Q4 2019, Unilever Korea is moving toward direct distribution by taking back the HPC distribution from YK business partner. The ambition is that the business will reach its first 100mil E by end of 2021 and 250mil E by 2025, to be No1 MNC in FMCG.

Main Job Purpose:

Marketing Category Assistant Manager of Beauty & Wellbeing will play a key strategic role in supporting the Category Leader of Beauty & Wellbeing in leading growth of Skin Body & Face Care and Hair Care category business which is one of the core business division in Unilever Korea. This role leads brand building of core Unilever brands in Beauty & Wellbeing category majorly targeting Vaseline. Furthermore, this position acts as a key hub responsible for providing local insights and trends supporting the global brand and category teams stationed across multiple regions.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be:

• Lead responsibility for Skin Care brands aligned with global category and brand strategies.
• Lead Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Beauty & Wellbeing identifying category issues and opportunities
• Develop brand marketing plans and future roadmap to deliver sustainable category growth
• Manage Beauty & Wellbeing category and brand P&L
• Act as the category guardian for Korea, managing brands adhering to global standards
• Develop and execute integrated brand communication plan.
• Review effectiveness / outcomes of campaigns, monitor performance, and take actions necessary for improvement
• Initiate new product development through consistently exploring white space and consumer insights from market.
• Lead NPD briefing and collaborate with Innovation team to deliver new product on time

Experiences & Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Minimum 7 years of brand marketing experience in FMCG
• Brand management experience required
• Fluent in Korean and English
• Experience in Multinational company is preferred

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates 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.

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.