We are currently seeking an interim Assistant Brand Manager, to work with our global FMCG client , renowned for brands such as Dove, Sure, Persil, and Simple, and become an integral part of their fast-paced FMCG environment.
The position is based in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. This is a full-time temporary role to run for 3 months, requiring 36.25 hours per week to start ideally ASAP, Monday to Friday. Compensation for this role is competitive, paying up to £46,500 per annum, pro rata, depending upon experience.
The role currently offers a mix of remote and onsite working, subject to adjustment based on business requirements.

BACKGROUND
U/L is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Over half (57%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. U/L has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx.
Comfort is the #1 brand in Fabric Conditioner and one of the largest brands within U/L UK’s Home Care category. Comfort is trusted by over 10m shoppers each year to deliver long lasting fragrance, softness and care for their clothes. We have an exciting innovation and activation pipeline and are looking for an individual who can take ownership of this and accelerate growth for U/L, the category, and our retailers.
This role would allow the successful candidate end to end experience on one of U/L’s biggest brands - from innovation development to in market execution through media, shopper and digital activations – and build key commercial skills such as net revenue management, category development and business acumen.

RESPONSIBITITIES
You will be supporting the Marketing Manager in the implementation & execution on the Comfort brand in the UKI Home Care market, driving growth through marketing activities.
This will include: 

• Supporting the Marketing Manager in implementing the UK brand strategy and development of the marketing programs.
• Assisting with the commercial delivery of the brand incl. monitoring and reporting in market performance and action planning.
• Working with cross-functional teams to develop and launch innovations, including pack price architecture optimisations, and review success with post launch evaluations and 100 day tracking.
• Delivering campaigns and marketing activities: collaborating across functions, teams & agencies; bringing teams together to deliver strong digitally led, omnichannel marketing plans.
• Crafting content with a digital-first mindset and working closely with the Digital Hub team to deliver this with excellence to consumers, tracking, monitoring and assessing performance on-going in order to optimise and adapt.

• Representing Home Care within the business, as the key source of knowledge on brand performance and plans.
• Presenting to retailers and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing projects & budgets.

Key skills and Experience Required
To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Strong project management skills, with proven success of leading team/s to execute challenging & complex projects, including innovation/renovation development.
• The ability to work confidently and productively with multiple cross functional teams, with strong communication, presentation skills and stakeholder influencing abilities.
• Have a balance of creativity & science: can think creatively & strategically, with strong business mindset. Being commercially minded with proven track-record of successfully managing a P&L and budgets. Be creative with an eye for aesthetic & design, a passion for creative excellence & with experience developing communications and assets.
• Numeracy & data analysis skills for insight development.
• You are hungry to understand all the nuances of new categories/segments and emerging channels: have high standards, attention to detail and have an entrepreneurial and ‘can-do’ approach, be able to work with and unlock change and complexity to deliver results.
• Passion about our consumers, our brands & our purpose.
• Ambition to learn & proactivity in your own development: learning about the brands & U/L, but also challenging process and bringing new ways of thinking & behaving.
• Be able to demonstrate the U/L Standards of Leadership and champion the consumer, shopper and customer in everything they do. 

Kingston working environment:

• Contractors who are based at Kingston will be eligible to get free parking at a local carpark
• There is a Staff Shop located on the Ground Floor next to the main entrance, where Contingent Workers can buy discounted  products. 
• A canteen
• A Gym is available for use on the Ground Floor (with subscription). 
• Facilities in the gym include cardiovascular equipment, resistance machines, spin bikes, free weights area, boxing equipment and a stretch/matted area.  Classes are also available and can be booked directly with the Gym. Shower facilities are available in the changing rooms, along with hairdryers.