Beauty & Wellbeing Global Trends and Beauty Academy Assistant Manager

Beauty & Wellbeing Global Trends and Beauty Academy Assistant Manager

Job Title: B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Assistant Manager

Location: 100VE

The PISD team connects the business group together and partners the Marketing leadership team in the key areas of Trends, Innovation, Design and Beauty Culture & Capability. All of this is done in close collaboration with the PISD SVP, Global CMO, Brand Leads and BU leaders across the world. Reporting to the Trends & Beauty Academy Lead, this role is central to driving our capabilities agenda and trends.

You will have the opportunity to shape the Beauty Academy content created to build a Beauty culture, transform our capability & expertise in Beauty to rival competitors, and position UL as a true Beauty player.

The team values are centred around trust, transparency, honesty, authenticity, good intention, and live out through the 4 Unilever Behaviours in the day‑to‑day execution. It is critical that every member feels seen, heard and valued; we lean into the hard conversations with good intention to learn, adapt and improve. Making transparency and trust a core principle that the leadership team is nurturing as we build a strong foundation and transition through the stages of team formation.

We have a BOLD ambition, which is transformation at the core. To achieve this, we re‑write long‑established processes and ways of working, think, educate, inspire cross‑functional teams and brands within which we work. Therefore, the profile of the talents we bring in is critical, and we are looking for people who can challenge the status quo, are dynamic, resilient, agile, solution‑finders beyond pure executans and marketing crafters.

• Work with senior leadership to design and execute a Beauty Academy cadence that provides learning aligned to business priorities & builds a Beauty culture & eye.
• Support the Trends & Beauty Academy Lead in delivering the Beauty Learning curriculum & sessions across the year, including a Learning Day (one‑day event) to our Global B&W community (BG & BU).
• Work with external agency partners to develop Beauty Academy content that achieves the learning objectives for each module and is 100% aligned to the BA visual design principles across all touchpoints.
• Where relevant, recruit & work closely with a network of beauty specialist agencies to develop and drive the capability program.
• Design, shape & keep up to date the Beauty Academy visual identity, assets and executional guidelines.
• Track on measurement tools, reports & UL platforms, and recommend corrective actions to support Beauty Academy company targets (e.g. 15‑hour OKR) across the year.
• Support the Trends & Beauty Academy Lead in engagement with BG/BU to drive visibility & engagement of the program & deliver OKRs on target at year‑end.
• Maintain & refresh BA SharePoint.
• Provide ad‑hoc support on design of content on wider Trends cascade where relevant for the scope.
• Support the B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Lead in connecting with wider PISD teams to ensure seamless flow and translation of trends into BBMs/MMPs.
• Support the B&W Global Trends and Beauty Academy Lead on Inno Prof execution (annual innovation "fair").
• Identify relevant trends and spaces in Beauty to inform key topics covered within the Beauty Academy learning curriculum.
• Bring/implement ideas of projects that build trends thought leadership; attend and report on relevant events, exhibitions, etc.
• Own and manage the Beauty Academy budget & supplier payments for your projects, feeding into the overall Trends & BA budget.
• Share ownership for sourcing and onboarding new external partners to Unilever’s procurement systems (Coupa).

• Excellent project & event management, planning and organisation skills.
• Ability to work independently, juggle multiple projects and priorities, showing real ownership and accountability.
• Strong relationship builder and influencer, capable of working effectively with counterparts of all work levels and across multiple cultures/countries, driving the Beauty Academy agenda.
• Resilience & managing ambiguity: maintain effectiveness & deliver when managing…