Assistant Brand Manager

**Who we are?**

On any given day, 2.5 billion people globally use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get more out of life. Many of our brands are well-known, household staples and old-time favourites including Dove, Rexona, Lynx, Vaseline, OMO/Persil, Surf, TRESemmé, Continental, Ben & Jerry’s and Streets.

We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world’s first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap more than 100 years ago, and it’s at the heart of how we run our company today. In 2022 Unilever Australia & New Zealand became a Certified B Corporation (B Corp), joining a growing network of organisations committed to galvanising a stronger, more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy for all.

A job at Unilever is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity and is pioneering flexibility. There’s no better time to join our team

At Unilever ANZ, we have also embarked on something special: we are proud to be undertaking a 4 Day work week trial. This trial will see our staff retain 100 percent of their salaries, while working 80 percent of the time and delivering 100 percent of business outcomes. The **Assistant Brand Manager - Streets role is designed to be fully functional in the 4-Day work week trial.**

**Job Summary**

We are looking for an **Assistant Brand Manager - Streets** who will lead and execute the development and implementation of local brand plans in Australia and New Zealand to achieve long and short term business goals. Our Ice Cream category vision is measured in smiles and happiness - Ice cream makes you happier. This role will allow you to work on Australia and New Zealand’s much-loved Streets brands, such as Cornetto and Golden Gaytime.

Within this role, you will be a catalyst to the brands strategic choices, product, and commercial innovations, and branded activations across media and consumer touchpoints, leveraging data, insights, creativity, and innovation to achieve success.
- Permanent full-time role with hybrid (WFH + Office days) working arrangements.
- Office locations: Sydney CBD & North Rocks.
- You will report to the Streets Marketing Manager and work with a passionate and dynamic team in Sydney.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Leads the development of the Brand Marketing Plans by identifying the brand’s key issues and opportunities using:

- Consumer knowledge & understanding
- The drivers of brand growth and business performance
- Leveraging global best practice and learnings
- Project management and cross functional collaboration as a project lead. Leads new project execution plans across Australia and New Zealand, working closely with key agencies, customer development teams and relevant global teams.
- Focus on leveraging data sources to develop insights for future local brand growth opportunities, including monthly brand performance analysis, market share commentary and tracking and owners mindset for brand performance.
- Builds productive working relationships with customer development, CMI, global team, finance and supply chain to manage the brand’s day-to-day operations and key annual activities including range reviews and innovation reviews.
- Develop engaging and inspiring brand/sell in presentations for internal and external partners.
- Engage with agency partners to create bold, disruptive, and unmissable integrated media plans and POS, making our brands stand out online and offline.
- Day to day budget ownership for Streets across the calendar year.

**What are we looking for?**
- Independent, organized and autonomous self-starter
- Strong people and stakeholder management
- Team player with a strong desire to learn and grow. Goal driven, with an ambition to deliver extraordinary results every time
- Presentation and storytelling skills
- Analytical skills
- Budget management - previous exposure to managing spend and independent workload management

**Does this sound like You?**
- Tertiary qualifications in business/marketing preferred
- 1-2 years of relevant work experience
- Experience in Marketing - project management/ brand campaigns implementation/ budget management.
- Leadership (in or outside of the workplace)

**What awaits you at Unilever?**

The core of Unilever’s culture is captured as Human, Purposeful, Accountable. You will be joining a dynamic, flexible, and inspiring work environment that truly cares about your wellbeing, values what you do and celebrates your success.

This is your opportunity to be part of a purpose-led business and a global community where you can progress your career both locally and internationally. You will also benefit from amazing discounts on external company products, attractive employee referral reward program amongst other benefits.

This is a great opportunity to work within an iconic and global organization. We have gained our