KEY SKILLS:

• Proactive self-starter, accountable for defining, driving and owning the Strategy and Execution
• Excellent project management, planning and organisation skills.
• Ability to be able to juggle multiple projects and priorities, as well as demonstrating real ownership and accountability.
• Curiosity and passion for beauty and aesthetics with deep understanding of the skin/hair category and competitors.
• An outstanding communicator, relationship builder and influencer, capable of working effectively with counterparts of all work levels and across multiple cultures/countries and able to say no.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking that makes you performance orientated, able to sharply define priorities and execute with excellence.
• Strategic networker who can proactively seek out and create opportunities to expand their professional network and leverage these connections for capability or trends projects.
• Extremely high degree of attention to detail.

KEY EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a significant level of experience of working in strategy or insights.
• Experience of leading innovation and brand strategy development, particularly in beauty.
• Demonstrated ability in the translation and understanding of scientific territories and the direct link and creation of a thread to innovation spaces
• 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.
• A flair for beauty, fashion, art or design; having connections in this world is a plus.
• Proven track record of planning, organising and executing successful large events e.g. conferences, trade shows, corporate meetings or large social gatherings.
• Proven track record of leading a cross-functional team with an ability to be able to manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Previous insight or trends agency experience preferred.
• Line management experience and leading through change.

TOP 3 UNILEVER BEHAVIOURS:

Consumer & Customer Love: We delight our consumers and partner our customers better than anyone else.

Behaviours:

• Spending time considering and understanding the needs of (internal and/or external) consumers, anticipating and translating future trends into viable strategies and solutions.
• Anticipating and meeting customer needs, seeking to move past the traditional ways of doing things, generating creative ideas and promoting innovative thinking in others to drive category growth.

Traits: Empathy, Curiosity and Need for achievement.
Drivers: None.
Purposeful Impact: We care deeply about delivering positive impact for people & planet.

Behaviours:

• Purposeful decision maker: Considering all relevant information and multiple points of view, focusing on balancing competing needs and priorities when making decisions.
• Forward thinker: Thinking ahead and approach challenges using a broad perspective to create breakthrough strategies.

Traits: Curiosity, Focus, Persistence.
Drivers: None.
Agility: We are curious, courageous and adaptable to change.

Behaviours:

• Nimble Learner: Learning through experiences and experimentation and applying the lessons quickly through new situations.
• Change adaptor: Dealing comfortably with uncertainty and change, taking action and making tough decisions in high-stakes situations, and adapting your approach in response to changing circumstances.

Traits: Curiosity, Adaptability, Tolerance for ambiguity, Risk Taking.
Drivers: Structure (low).

DOMAIN EXPERTISE (RELEVANT AND RECENT EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE BUSINESS GROUP):

• Relevant years’ experience working in beauty and wellbeing marketing or CMI.
• Marketing Strategy: Growth opportunity identification & segmentation; Category Visioning.
• Trends & Foresight: People insight; Macro trend foresight and prediction; Market & Category insight.
• Capability: Teaching/knowledge embedding; Business acumen.

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JOB PURPOSE

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 Foresight, Design & Beauty Academy Director, this role is central to driving our beauty trends and capabilities agenda. 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.

TOP 3 ESSENTIAL SKILLS (FROM ROLE PROFILE):

• Ability to be able to juggle multiple projects and priorities, as well as demonstrating real ownership and accountability.
• An outstanding communicator, relationship builder and influencer, capable of working effectively with counterparts of all work levels and across multiple cultures/countries and able to say no.
• Ability to plan, organise and execute successful large events e.g. conferences, trade shows, corporate meetings or large social gatherings.
• Proactive self-starter, accountable for defining, driving and owning the Strategy and Execution