Job Description

ABOUT UNILEVER


With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people - we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.


At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our, collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centres around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. We don't believe in the 'one size fits all' approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.


BACKGROUND & PURPOSE OF THE ROLE


Beauty & Wellbeing is a powerhouse business playing in the dynamic categories of Hair Care and Skin Care with our iconic global brands like Dove, TRESemme, SheaMoisture, Nexxus, Vaseline and Dove Men+Care.


This role leads the B&W Performance & Portfolio Management pillar. This leader is

responsible

to drive

the business performance by

end-to-end

integrated leadership and thinking to tie all functions together for holistic business delivery and decision making.

This is the link between Demand Creation and Customer Strategy & Planning - while all functions (CS&P, Demand Creation, Supply Chain, Finance, CBD, CMI etc.) will continue to contribute in their own functional expertise, the performance pillar will synergize it all together to ensure they functional efforts are converging together to deliver ONE total Business Unit / Category ambition & performance targets. This role is not responsible for Customer Strategy & Planning or Demand Creation - this is a Performance led role, focused on delivering business results and driving category growth.



WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE?:


E2E Business & Performance Management:


Leading functional connectivity to ensure functional plans are complementing one another and are not silo-ed.


Manage the interface between the Demand Creation and CS&P teams, ensuring both functions are delivering at the speed and quality required to win in the market


Deliver the right performance signals to Demand Creation and CS&P to understand if the trade & BMI investment plans are successful or not


Category Competitiveness & Growth:


Unilever vs. Competitor share monitoring to understand insights and clearly identify issues & opportunities.


Continuously assess market dynamics to provide CSP and MKT teams with category/brand opportunities


Performance analysis to inform growth plans and pivots needed to deliver growth plans


S&OP and P&L Management:


Manage business fundamentals: USG, GM, UOP, UOM, Competitiveness


Manage in year target delivery and P&L management

Note: While the "analysis" sits with this team, the delivery of business fundamental is owned by all functions.


Leads business operations to provide accurate and efficient S&OP process in collaboration with SC and Finance


Ensuring business investment (Trade & BMI) are utilized most effectively based on performance signals


Portfolio Management:


Innovation Management:


Owning Canada business cases and get local approvals


Representing Canada portfolio needs and inputs in the NA Investor Board


Innovation performance tracking


Ensuring Canada retail needs are communicated to the NA Innovation leads


Design 4 Channel:


Identifying opportunities based on channel trends and data with CS&P support


Creating and owning D4C business cases and ensuring NA IB clearance with SC support


"Portfolio Transformation":


Opportunities: channel opps, format opps (particular sizes that are growing), distribution opps, listing gaps, customer opps etc.


Profitability:


Cost Transformation with support from the NA Cost Transformation team


Net Revenue Management



WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?:

You a seasoned general manager with a proven track record of leading categories and/or business units to deliver USG, profitability and market share targets You have excelled in business performance management, portfolio management and SOP management roles and have delivered with excellence You have significant experience in leading and owning P&L Management across all metrics (topline, profit, trade and marketing investment) You are an end-to-end leader: You are an end to end thinker - strategic thinker and execution powerhouse. You have an understanding of key functions like Marketing, Innovation Management, Customer Strategy, Finance, Supply Chain, dComm Performance Management - so you are able to connect the dots on business performance impact You have owned Innovation management - led and delivered localization of innovation strategy and consumer trends into country business cases and have experience in innovation performance tracking across all key financial and consumer metrics You have unlocked P&L value by focusing on profit improving initiatives such as savings programs in partnership with SC - or net revenue management with trade You have a clear vision to grow the category and are thinking 3 steps ahead to win vs. competition You are a strategic long term thinker but have a strong grip on the business operations and short term business delivery You care deeply about performance results and are able to identify issues & opportunities and pivot quickly to create an action plan You are analytical and can convert data into insights You have been a senior business or a functional leader and have been on Leadership Teams You are a strong people manager and have coached and mentored senior managers. Lastly and most importantly, you are AMBITIOUS, DRIVEN, COMPETITIVE and a complete WINNER! You believe that Performance IS Care. Your values match Unilever values: Deliver with Excellence, Staying 3 steps ahead, Focus on what counts and Care Deeply
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Unilever Canada is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national or ethnic origin, marital status, family status, disability, genetic characteristics, and a conviction for which a pardon has been granted.



If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at NA.Accommodations@unilever.com. Please note: These lines are reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and are not a means of inquiry about positions or application statuses.



Unilever Canada est une organisation engage a la diversite et a l'inclusion pour stimuler nos resultats d'affaires et creer un meilleur avenir chaque jour pour nos employes, les consommateurs globaux, les partenaires et les communautes. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifiee nous permet de faire correspondre nos ambitions de croissance et de stimuler l'inclusion dans l'entreprise. Tous les candidats qualifies recevront la consideration pour un emploi sans egard a la race, la couleur, la religion, le sexe, l'orientation sexuelle, l'identite ou l'expression de genre, l'age, l'origine nationale ou ethnique, l'etat matrimonial, la situation familiale, l'invalidite, les caracteristiques genetique, et une condamnation pour laquelle un pardon a ete accordee.



Si vous etes une personne handicapee qui a besoin d'aide a tout moment au cours de notre processus de recrutement, veuillez communiquer avec nous au NA.Accommodations@unilever.com. Veuillez noter: ces lignes sont reservees aux personnes handicapees ayant besoin d'aide et ne sont pas un moyen d'enqueter sur les postes.