Senior Assistant Brand Manager Cooking Aids

Unilever is hiring a Senior Assistant Brand Manager Cooking Aids (Knorr).

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 inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all career path. Instead, we’ll support you with the tools and opportunities to grow in a way that’s meaningful to you. We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That's why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model.

As part of our team, you’ll work on brands that people love—like Knorr—and help shape the future of food. We’re proud to offer a workplace that’s inclusive, collaborative, and flexible.

Job Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Cooking Aids team, part of Unilever's biggest BU - Foods Europe. You’ll be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team that values creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. If you are passionate about innovation, portfolio strategy and revamping Knorr, then this role is just for you! The role sits within the Platform & Innovation team. In your role you will work across the strategic priority segments Seasoning and Bouillon.

Main Responsibilities

• End-to-end project leadership: Take ownership, lead and project manage innovation/renovation/savings initiatives, working closely with the cross-functional and country teams to bring products to market OTIF. This will need excellent project management skills and strong relationship-forming with cross functional teams.
• Shape the Future of Cooking Pastes: Drive the roadmap for our newly launched Cooking Paste platform, collaborating across teams to unlock its full potential.
• Modernize Bouillons: Help elevate our Bouillon portfolio by introducing contemporary new formats and patented technologies that reflect modern cooking habits, deliver added value to consumers, and bring fresh relevance to the category.
• Help Knorr reach more contemporary cooks by developing new concepts that are exciting, on-trend and drive penetration for our brand. We are looking for creativity, a can-do mindset and a lot of positive energy!
• Accelerate Market Impact: Deliver innovation quickly and effectively, including post-launch reviews, budget management, and agile consumer testing.
• Support Category Strategy: Work with EU platform leads to build winning strategies tapping into category understanding, food trends across segments and evolving consumer habits.
• Drive day to day contact with local markets to support them in bringing our category mixes and category plans to life.

Skills You Should Have

• 3+ years of experience in marketing, preferably in portfolio management and/or innovation
• Proven track record in Project Management
• Positive mindset and a lot of energy
• Ability to work independently and to (project) lead cross-functional teams
• Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Passion for food and cooking, constantly curious for the latest trends
• A fast learner

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in Foods is a plus

What Is In It For You?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.
• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.
• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.
• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.
• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40%-60% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.
• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products.
• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).
• Homework allowance
• Company laptop and mobile phone
• Green Mobility Policy.

Excited?

Join Unilever and our team!