Job Title: B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Assistant Manager
Location: 100VE
Overview:
The PISD team connects the business group together and partners the Marketing leadership team in the key areas of Trends, Innovation, Design and Beauty Culture & Capability. All of this is done in close collaboration with the Design SVP, Global CMO, Brand Leads and BU leaders across the world. Reporting to the Trends & Beauty Academy Lead, this role is central to driving our capabilities agenda and trends. You will have the opportunity to shape the strategic trends content created to drive the innovation strategies for B&W marketing and play a pivotal role in transforming the company’s expertise in beauty so that we become a true industry challenger.

KEY SKILLS:

• Excellent project management, planning and organisation skills.
• Ability to work independently, to juggle multiple projects and priorities, as well as demonstrating real ownership and accountability.
• Resilience & managing ambiguity: Maintain effectiveness & ability to deliver when managing uncertainty and volatility with a can-do attitude.
• Curiosity and passion for beauty and aesthetics with an eye for detail.
• A strong storyteller, adapt at connecting the dots & turning complex concepts into simple, actionable stories for innovation crafting marketers
• A strong relationship builder and influencer, capable of working effectively with counterparts of all work levels and across multiple cultures/countries, driving the Beauty Academy agenda and saying no where needed.
• A confident leader of agency relationships, able to provide clear guidance and feedback on creative content
• Keen networker who can proactively seek out and create opportunities to expand their professional network and leverage these connections for capability or trends projects.
• Proficient in spoken and written English
• Great numeracy
• Attention to detail
• Confident at adopting new technology in particular AI & AI tools
• Software: Intermediate-Advanced in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Miro/ Mural.

KEY EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with experience of working in marketing or insights.
• You are a passionate about beauty- you will know about the latest beauty hacks and social media conversations. Previous experience in the beauty is a strong plus.
• A personal interest in keeping connected to the changing external world & evidence of being able to develop strategic trend content from various sources and delivering with impact to the business.
• Proven track record of planning, organising and executing successful large events e.g. conferences, trade shows, corporate meetings or large social gatherings.
• Experience of leading a cross-functional team with an ability to be able to manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience working with multiple external agencies, providing feedback on creative content

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JOB PURPOSE

The team values are centred around trust, transparency, honesty, authenticity, good intention, and which live out through the 4 Unilever Behaviours in the day-to-day execution.
It is critical for us that every member feels seen, heard and valued; we lean into the hard conversations with good intention to learn, adapt and improve. Making transparency and trust a core principle that the leadership team is nurturing as we build a strong foundation and transition through the stages of team formation.
We have a BOLD ambition, which is transformation at the core. To achieve this, we are re-writing long established processes and ways of working, thinking, educating, inspiring the cross functional teams and brands within which we work. Therefore, the profile of the talents we bring in is critical, and we are looking for people with an ability to challenge the statu quo, dynamic, resilient, agile, solution finders beyond pure executant and of course marketing crafters.