SEA Regional Category & Innovation Strategist

Job Title: SEA Regional Category & Innovation Strategist

Location: Malaysia

About Unilever
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At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. 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.

About Unilever Food Solutions
Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €2.5bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growth objectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to operators across 22 Multi Country Organizations (MCOs) in 67 countries. Our purpose is to Free Chefs to love what they do. Our brands include Knorr Professional & Best Foods— trusted and used by chefs and F&B operators every day.

Job Purpose
If you are a passionate marketeer with a keen eye for strategy, data, impactful projects, and brand building, then this role is just for you!

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
You will work closely with the Southeast Asia Regional Category Marketing team to develop and drive strategy for portfolio management & innovation development. Your day-to-day tasks will revolve around the following key themes:

1. Insights and data:
   Work closely with the regional CMI counterparts along with the category execution teams in each market to develop, evolve, and evaluate internal and external data points to generate actionable insights. Use these insights to craft tangible strategies for portfolio management and innovation development.
2. Portfolio Management:
   Guide and enable regular portfolio health check protocols to maximize growth and profitability potential. Develop and drive discipline of using tools and protocols such as the NRM to ensure markets are on track to deliver on their planned objectives and KPIs for growth and profitability.
3. Innovation Development:
   Lead regional innovation projects from inception to execution while collaborating with multiple cross-functional stakeholders throughout the region. Execute the innovation strategy to develop a long-term innovation pipeline for the region.
4. Additional learning opportunities:
   Engage in general marketing projects and discussions around the latest skills and trends such as data, digital, and AI to ensure that you are trained into becoming a top-notch holistic marketing resource.

What You Need To Succeed
Experiences & Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree (preferably in marketing & brand management).
• 2 to 3 years experience in marketing and brand management / portfolio & innovation development and management / consumer research and insights.
• Preferably in the consumer goods industry.
• Available to commence immediately.

Skills

• Medium level understanding and appreciation of Marketing fundamentals and processes.
• High agility to learn and adapt.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
• Openness in facing business challenges.
• Ability to self-organize and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Good cross-functional stakeholder communication skills.
• Passion for discovering customer insights.
• Strategic thinking.
• P&L Understanding.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results and are an example to others.
• Focus on the consumer and what they need.
• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors include Passion for High Performance, Personal Mastery, Consumer Love, Purpose & Service, and Agility.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

ARE YOU INTERESTED?
Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications will not be processed. By applying to this role, you confirm that you have informed your Line Manager and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.