Brand Manager, Dove

**JOB TITLE: BRAND MANAGER, DOVE - SINGAPORE**

**SCOPE: SINGAPORE**

**FUNCTION: MARKETING**

**ABOUT UNILEVER**

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes: use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, many Singaporean households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life-giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you will be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you will channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we will work to help you become a better you.

**ABOUT THE BRAND**

Since its launch in 1957, Dove’s purpose is to invite all women to realise their personal potential for beauty by engaging them with products that deliver Superior Care. Dove believes that beauty should be for everyone because looking and feeling your best makes you feel happier. Dove pleasurably delivers Superior Care to tangibly improve the condition of your skin whilst meeting or exceeding all consumer expectations on the key market drivers for each category.

**WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT YOU'LL DO**

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and drive Unilever’s growth engine into the future We are seeking a talented **Brand Manager** to support the Marketing Manager in leading activations of Dove’s brand strategy in Singapore across consumer-facing channels and partnering with markets for strategy deployment to propel the growth of Dove in the cluster.

Using breakthrough thinking, consumer, brand and customer understanding you will assist to create a clear and ambitious growth vision and strategy for the assigned portfolio & bring these plans to life with a high level of execution excellence. You will be part of Dove’s global marketing community working across a range of varied and exciting brand projects, from our big bang national advertising campaigns to building a standout brand experience across direct-to-consumer channels.

**WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR**

We are looking for a driven, proactive, creative and organized Brand Manager who will make this ideal future a reality for the business. The Brand Manager will be responsible for leading the activation of our brand strategy in Singapore across consumer-facing channels, building stronger purpose-driven brand equity for our brands while impacting the overall category/brand by designing the strategy of one of our critical Innovations Pillar. In this journey, the Brand Manager will have high exposure to key global brands and senior stakeholders and local markets to grow the brand.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Lead the development of the Brand Marketing Plan.
- Lead a multi-functional team to implement plans in the marketplace and monitors the performance of the support plans.
- Lead in innovation, activation, advertising, and promotion for the deployment of a Brand Marketing Plan and budget.
- Analyze brand Profit and Loss (P&L) and drive the profitability of the brand.
- Lead in ongoing analysis and review of consumer, category, channel/customer, and competitive information as part of a situation assessment of brand performance and identify growth opportunities.
- Build a productive relationship with the customer development/sales team, Consumer Market Insights, regional category team, finance, and supply chain to manage the brand’s day-to-day operations, and external partners and agencies.
- Support the creation of the National Category Building Plan based on viewing Category Strategy through the lens of the local market reality.
- Provide input to volume forecasting, and financial updates and monitors key indicators and drivers of brand performance (6Ps). Recommend solutions and implement improvements to meet annual targets.
- Involve in launch management, building launch plans, customer sell-in and legal and regulatory issues.
- Manage the assigned brand’s new product launch assessment and deployment in the local market, including P&L, pricing, place and positioning.
- **The roles of duties are not exhaustive and may change according to business requirements._

**KEY STAKEHOLDERS**
- Internal: Global Brand custodians, Local and Global Cross-functional teams - Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Development, Local marketing expert team (Market Research, Digital)
- External: Customers, Creative and Media agencies, Regulatory authorities

**WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or e