Home Care Channels Customer Strategy

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF ROLE:

The Home Care Channels Customer Strategy & Planning Assistant Manager delivers consistent, competitive, and profitable growth by translating the Home Care brand strategies into holistic category growth programs across MT and DT channels. This requires an in-depth understanding of category-channel portfolio opportunities and competitiveness, that leads to the development and deployment of strong shopper and trade marketing programs activating the 4Ps (product, price, place, promo) that considers category trends/ opportunities, shopper needs, and retailer/channel priorities, while ensuring investment efficiency.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and deploy category growth strategy for MT and DT channels, including a comprehensive distribution strategy across the eRTM, based on category data, shopper insights, and retailer/channel opportunities and landing Design4Channel programs and activations
• Develop and deploy robust category commercial plans and define right investment model to deliver competitive and profitable business results in key MT and DT channels.
• Defines category channel execution blueprint to ensure our brands reach and win shoppers at both the physical and digital shelves.
• Brings the voice of the shoppers and/or retailers into the country business unit, to ensure plans are designed for channel, esp in terms of portfolio and deployment plans.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance to drive category-channel growth agenda internally in Unilever.
• Key targets: channel growth, distribution, spend efficiency.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Strategic, collaborative, proactive, detail-oriented, data-driven, innovative/creative.
• Shopper- and consumer-obsessed: strives to understand consumers and shoppers to know the right triggers and barriers to drive behavioural change.
• Data-driven creator: doesn't just analyse data, but is able to translate data into actionable insights to create category growth programs with channels and retailers.
• Curious about the unknown and finds proactive ways to learn and upskill, unlock new ways of doing things or new approaches to old processes to lead to pioneering executions.
• Business acumen and ownership mindset: understands key levers to deliver business results and takes ownership of results.
• Project Management and Communication skills: able to manage project networks, can clearly and effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional partners to land projects and shared objectives OTIF.
• Strategic influencing: able to drive category agenda with different high-level stakeholders and partners to deliver business objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS / BACKGROUND

• Category management. Shopper channel marketing or in Trade Marketing
• Familiar with data analytics tools and dashboards
• Digital/Dcommerce marketing is a plus
• Industry background: beauty and personal care, FMCG, Distributive Trade sales/channel marketing

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