Brand Manager - Skin Cleansing (Fixed Term Contract)

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

• Leads the development and implementation of insight-led Skin Cleansing brand plans across Australia and New Zealand to deliver sustainable market share, revenue and profitability growth.
• Owns key innovation, renovation and demand-creation projects across bars, body wash and adjacent cleansing formats, from local opportunity identification through to in-market launch and optimisation.
• Builds productive partnerships across Customer Strategy and Planning, Customer Development, Consumer and Market Insights, R&D, Finance, Supply Chain, regional and global category teams, and agency partners to deliver brilliant end-to-end execution.

Main Accountabilities

• Leads the development and implementation of insight-led Skin Cleansing brand plans across Australia and New Zealand to deliver sustainable market share, revenue and profitability growth.
• Owns key innovation, renovation and demand-creation projects across bars, body wash and adjacent cleansing formats, from local opportunity identification through to in-market launch and optimisation.
• Builds productive partnerships across Customer Strategy and Planning, Customer Development, Consumer and Market Insights, R&D, Finance, Supply Chain, regional and global category teams, and agency partners to deliver brilliant end-to-end execution.

Key Skills and Behavior

• Consumer and shopper obsession, with curiosity about evolving cleansing routines,beautyand wellness trends
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to turn insight and data into focused growth choices
• Creative judgement and passion for socially relevant, distinctive brand-building work
• Commercial acumen, including P&L, pricing, promotion,mixand budget management
• Excellent project management,prioritisationand operational discipline across multiple workstreams
• Confident stakeholder influence and collaboration across a complex local,regionaland global network
• Ownership mindset,agilityand resilience, with a bias for action and continuous improvement
• Clear written, verbal and presentation communication
• Enriches team dynamics through collaboration,inclusionand knowledge sharing

Relevant Experiences

• 2-3 years of relevant marketing experience; experience in Personal Care, Beauty and Wellbeing or another high-involvement FMCG category isadvantageous
• Proven experience developing and executing integrated brand marketing plans and campaigns
• Experience managing innovation,renovationor product-launch projects on time and in full
• Experience working with media, creative, social, publicrelationsand shopper agencies
• Strong cross-functional experience with Customer Development, Customer Strategy and Planning, Consumer and Market Insights, Finance, Supply Chain and R&D
• Experience analysing brand, category and shopper data and translating it into practical action
• Project and budget management experience; working knowledge of brand P&L drivers
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or a related discipline preferred
• Digital, social commerce,e-commerceor alternate-channel experience is highly valued

Contract duration: fixed-term for 6 months

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