Associate Manager UFS Operations

Associate Manager UFS Operations – Unilever Food Solutions

Location: Remote – Hoboken, NJ

Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €3bn+ food service 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 72 countries. UFS prides itself on creating value for its customers through culinary solutions and improving the food experience for everyone from distributors and operators to diners and consumers.

$86,080 to $129,120

Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan including health, retirement, life, disability, parental leave, paid vacation, holidays and a range of voluntary benefits.

We are searching for an experienced Brand Manager to take global strategy and leverage local insights to strengthen the existing portfolio with sharp strategic focus, portfolio strategy and build the future portfolio with clear category roadmap and innovation plan for Out‑of‑Home across key Cooking Aids categories.

• Responsible for driving core and establishing a clear roadmap for sub‑brands within the portfolio, crafting growth acceleration and market winning plan
• Full P&L and marketing budget responsibility, coordinating with cross‑functional teams like CD and SC for demand and supply of products
• Devise a clear roadmap for sub‑categories within the Bases category, whether to accelerate, evolve or defend play based on market understanding and growth potential
• Innovation and Renovation Project Management, delivery, strategy, Portfolio Transformation and Brand Communication with speed of innovation and launch in the digital transformation journey
• Owns portfolio positioning, sustainable growth strategy and strategy into action to win market share, including net revenue management
• Drives the full Operator Lifecycle, working closely with Operator Experience Marketing to understand the Customer Experience (CX)
• Own local Category Strategy and Innovation/Rejuvenation roadmaps, as well as Brand‑Led Growth initiatives, campaign and execution toolkit planning and development
• Lead business transformation via owning progressive innovation platforms, driving network/virtual teams globally to think and act differently
• Understand deeply Scratch category insights and foresights— from trends to tensions, opportunities and competition
• Ensure Global Category Strategies reflect key insights from NA and define growth strategy for Scratch to capitalize trends and tailwinds, or fix the tensions

• Country & Stakeholder Management
• Digital
• P&L reviews and analysis
• Budget ownership

• 2+ years international marketing experience, including innovation management and delivery
• Brand/Category management experience
• Innovation & Renovation project management
• Ensure impactful innovation on the core/pack/price architecture to growth and increase profitability
• Price position and tracking
• Creates purpose‑led brand content for innovations and top 10’s for key touch points
• Ensures product campaign, messages integration into content calendar and journey stages
• Responsible for sales enablement Unilever Food Solutions in the food service (B2B) part of Unilever
• Strategy into action: develop strategy to drive growth & customer experience
• Business acumen: deep understanding of sales/marketing funnels, operator lifecycle & marketing automation journeys
• Customer centricity
• Creative & persuasive content performance measurement & analysis

• Project management
• Advance digital skills
• Finance
• Communication skills

• Caring deeply
• Positive Tensions for bigger outcomes, fairness and transparency, performance & care
• Staying three steps ahead of the market
• Build future while delivering today, think big simplify, commit lead shape disrupt market
• Delivering with excellence
• Pride in our execution, best in reality, developing breakthrough solutions
• Focusing on what matters most
• Fewer bigger things, fight for what matters most, challenging and debating right choices

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