Ice Cream Marketing Lead Poland&EE

at  Unilever

LOOKING FOR YOUR DREAM JOB? JOIN OUR ICE CREAM TEAM!

Unilever is currently hiring for IC Marketing Lead Poland&EE
Location: Warsaw
Terms & Conditions: Full-time role. Hybrid working model. Right to work in Poland required.
If you are in the Unilever Ice Cream business or consider choosing to work for the Unilever Ice Cream business, you will work for the Global, leading Ice Cream player with €7.9bn Turn Over in 2023. The Ice Cream business is operating in a highly attractive category, as we are part of the 1 trillion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Wall’s, Magnum, Ben &Jerry’s. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by November 2025.
Ice Cream has distinct characteristics from Unilever’s other operating businesses and the growth potential of Ice Cream will be better delivered under a different ownership structure. As Ice Cream company we are committed to developing and nurturing talent within our Ice Cream company. You will have ample options for career growth and exploration, allowing you for you to explore roles and opportunities across the new organisation. Your career development will be a priority for us, and we are dedicated to supporting your growth journey within the new company. We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.

SKILLS:

• Crafting superior communication assets and working knowledge on product development.
• Proven Leadership skills: leads the team into the goals; keeps team motivation high.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross-functional and international collaboration.
• Fluent English and Polish.

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 5 years of experience leading brands.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in leading teams.
• Has a good balance of marketing acumen as well as business drive.
• Acts strategically and tactically to achieve outstanding results.
• Resilient, positive, entrepreneurial and fast. Creates positive energy in the team.
• Takes intelligent risks experiments, learns, and moves forward in pursuit of the consumer needs.
• Is demanding from others and himself/herself.
• Is organized and disciplined. Drives simplicity, and fights with unnecessary complexity.
• Is comfortable working with people of different backgrounds and years of experience.
• BSc/MSc in Marketing, Management, Economics or a related field.

JOB PURPOSE:

Find your purpose at Unilever. If you are hungry for impact and thrive in an environment where you can combine work on strong fundamentals, while enjoying the thrill of experimentation and setting benchmarks which will make Polish Ice Cream category strong in Europe, then this role is tailored for you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Owns category P&L with topline and bottom-line responsibility.
• Closely oversees consumer trends in refreshment & snacking markets and takes a strategic lead to ensure that the Unilever can outperform competitors.
• Is accountable for the development and delivery of the annual category plans (IBP) with close cooperation with regional team.
• Creates end-to-end development plan for local brands.
• Makes world class deployment of regional plans for global brands (Magnum, CDO etc).
• Makes sure category plans are well communicated to sales teams and customers.
• 8 direct reports + 1 dotted line reporting.