B&W Prospective Innovation Skincare Marketing Manager

• Align with the Skin Lead on the priority projects that you will lead with their support and coaching.
• Work closely with the Trends & Beauty Academy Lead and R&D teams to translate macro trends into tangible opportunities for product & pack innovation for the skin brands.
• Act as an ongoing strategic partner to skin brand teams and prospective innovation managers, by challenging/shaping project briefs and then leading co-creation sprints (e.g. innovation, brand, design) as well as ongoing crafting sessions to refine the output.
• Lead the development of the creative stimulus for co-creation sprints by collaborating with internal teams (e.g. R&D, CMI, Marketing) and external parties (e.g. consumers, external experts, designers) to stimulate creative thinking and bring the best sprint to life.

• Partner with Brand Leads to execute their design strategy into tangible project briefs, leading a design ecosystem (internal teams and external designers & agencies) to land these new designs in market.
• You will directly manage 2-3 freelance designers as part of the design eco-system: briefing and evaluating work and managing overall project workload.
• You will have shared responsibility for sourcing and onboarding any new external partners to Unilever’s procurement systems and will have ownership of managing the project budget and payment of these suppliers for your category.

• As part of your design and co-creation projects, you will help to build an external contact database. In partnership with your skin counterpart you will ensure all profiles are kept up to date with high levels of data accuracy.
• Onboarding any new external suppliers to Unilever’s procurement systems.
• Raise all purchase orders for skin co-creation and design projects budget and work with finance to complete any cross-charges necessary.

• Curiosity and passion for beauty and aesthetics with deep understanding of the skin/hair category and competitors.
• Strong 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.
• Solid understanding of the overall B&W business with a proactive mindset who can identify ways to improve existing approaches or suggest new workstreams.
• Highly organised and able to plan and prioritise own work.
• Facilitation & co-creation skills, able to structure engaging and productive sprints & workshops, guiding participants through activities to achieve desired outcomes.
• Strong personal mastery and agility - comfortable working in an environment where there is frequent change.
• Proactive and supportive team player.
• Obsession with understanding consumers – their needs, their emotional states, their desires, their aspirations – and helping them achieve all these through end-to-end design.
• Ability to readily translate an aesthetic vision, breaking it down into clear beauty codes, who speaks the language of beauty and can articulate that forward in brands, mixes, concepts.
• Express creative concepts with sharp coherence between words, visuals, and staging (must be fluent with the language of colour, lighting, composition, finishes and textures).
• Extremely high degree of attention to detail.

• Bachelor’s Degree with a significant level of experience of working in brand marketing including product innovation.
• Experience leading packaging design projects, briefing designers and evaluating creative work.
• Experience of leading innovation and brand strategy development, particularly in beauty.
• Proven track record of leading a cross-functional team with an ability to be able to manage multiple projects in parallel.

• London based role, with a minimum of two days a week in the office.
• Travelling- mobility is important as this role requires to travel in the UK and abroad for print trials, mock up productions...

• 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 readily translate an aesthetic vision, breaking it down into clear beauty codes, who speaks the language of beauty and can articulate that forward in brands, mixes, concepts.
• Facilitation & co-creation skills, able to structure engaging and productive sprints & workshops, guiding participants through activities to achieve desired outcomes.

• 2+ years’ experience working in beauty and wellbeing skin or hair brands.
• Brand Crafting: Creative briefs & briefing, Creative Judgement. Purposeful brand crafting and positioning.
• Innovation Crafter: People insight, Create people-centric, compelling propositions & claims, Superior & sustainable product design
• Marketing Strategy: Growth opportunity identification & segmentation

• Collaborative Team Player - thrives in a team setting, avoiding territorial behaviour, and always working towards collective success.
• Ability to self-motivate and drive change in a highly innovative environment facing at time, uncertainty and volatility - Maintains composure and effectiveness when faced with uncertainty and volatility, demonstrating strong problem-solving abilities.
• Growth mindset and founder’s mentality - Demonstrates a growth-oriented, bias for action and hands-on approach, embracing challenges as opportunities for innovation and improvement. Consistently delivers incremental results, even in complex or ambiguous environments, with a clear focus on achieving tangible outcomes.

• Consumer obsession & absolute commitment (and clear evidence) to building strong external partnership
• Innovative Curator - brings fresh, innovative thinking to the table, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring new possibilities, including in ways of working.
• Excellent communication (and listening) and excellent (proven) stakeholder management

• Commitment to B&W and PISD Stated values (Respect, Trust, Integrity, Commitment to team, Creativity.
• Alignment with your own professional values

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