Global Marketing Manager - Marketing ( Prestige

Global Marketing Manager – Central Marketing (Unilever Prestige)

LOCATION:

100 VE. Global travel ~10%, or, LA HUB.

ABOUT UNILEVER PRESTIGE:
Founded in 2015 as a stand‑alone global business unit (GBU), Unilever Prestige is now a leading global luxury beauty company and a powerhouse hub within Unilever. Having achieved €1.6 bn turnover in 2024 through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, Prestige has aggressive growth ambitions for the future. Unilever Prestige comprises a portfolio of eight distinctive, authentic brands that are powered by unique social and planet missions.

Unilever Prestige’s decentralised ‘House of Companies’ operating model has a small, high‑performance, agile, core central team at the heart of it. Unilever Prestige is scaling a social‑first, innovation‑led growth model. Our newly created Central Marketing team builds the capabilities, standards, and tools that help our Prestige brands move faster—from spotting emerging trends to launching better products and raising creative effectiveness.

You will be the builder and connector who turns best practice into everyday practice across our Prestige companies.

ROLE FOCUS:
Lead cross‑brand capability building for Innovation and Creative Excellence.

• Develop and embed new marketing capabilities (New Product Development, social listening, insight‑to‑action).
• Partner with CMI to track and improve innovation quality.
• Upskill portfolio marketers on creative excellence: writing better briefs, judging creative, and deploying social‑first tools.
• Influence brand/product marketing teams through training modules, toolkits, and workshops.
• Design and deliver training modules, certifications, and workshops for product and brand marketers; measure capability lift and adoption.
• Design and roll out playbooks, standards, and toolkits for trend‑spotting, innovation funnel health, and creative excellence.
• Pilot new tools (e.g., creative evaluation frameworks, modular content systems) and codify ways of working for adoption across brands.
• Lead always‑on social listening to identify early signals and creator‑led trends; translate into innovation territories and creative inspiration.
• Partner with CMI to define and track innovation quality metrics (consumer problem clarity, proposition strength, mix readiness).
• Coach teams on insight‑to‑brief and brief‑to‑mix excellence; ensure stage‑gate deliverables are decision‑ready.
• Deploy ECE (Enabling Creative Excellence) principles: writing unmissable briefs, judging creative ideas, and applying effectiveness criteria.
• Introduce social‑first codes to make creativity work harder for conversion and brand power.
• Curate and share latest learnings, tools, and benchmarks from global creative effectiveness studies.
• Enable a repository of agency of record for Prestige.
• Report to Prestige Central Marketing Capabilities Lead; serve as a trusted capability partner to Portfolio CMOs, advising on agency choices, creative storytelling, and test‑and‑learn approaches.
• Establish KPIs for capability adoption and impact (innovation success rate, creative effectiveness scores, speed‑to‑market).
• Publish dashboards and best‑practice playbacks.

• Proven/established experience in global/central marketing, innovation, or marketing excellence roles within beauty/personal care or CPG.
• Proven track record in capability building: toolkits, training, and adoption across multiple markets.
• Strong New Product Development knowledge and creative development experience (briefing, judging, content optimization).
• Hands‑on experience with social listening tools and creative evaluation frameworks.
• Data‑literate and CMI‑savvy; comfortable with insight synthesis and effectiveness metrics.
• Excellent facilitation and storytelling skills; credible with senior stakeholders; high autonomy and accountability.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full‑time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family‑friendly and inclusive workplace and, above all, to create possibilities for all. Diversity at…