Ice Cream Marketing Activation Manager

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast - moving consumer goods in foods, household, and personal care products. Our purpose is to meet the everyday needs of people everywhere – to anticipate the aspirations of our consumers and customers and to respond creatively and competitively with branded products and services, which raise the quality of life.

At Unilever, we share one simple purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace. Across all our household brands, Home Care, Beauty and Wellbeing, Personal Care, Ice Cream and Nutrition, we are creating a bright future for our business and our planet.

We are now looking for Unilever Sweden a Marketing Activation Manager to join our Marketing team in the Ice Cream Category!

As a Marketing Activation Manager, you will be an important part of our strong Marketing team within the Ice Cream category. You will be responsible for marketing and sales material for this category, including world leading brands like Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum as well as our local well-known brand GB Glace.

What you will be doing?

As a Marketing Activation Manager at Unilever, you will be a part of a passionate Marketing team.

Your responsibilities include:

• Create yearly sale activity plans.
• Developing, sourcing & ordering of branding material, point of sales material and gimmicks with advertising agencies and print houses.
• Identify & execute local partnerships / co-branding opportunities to inspire our consumers.
• Developing and producing sales catalogues
• Support our field sales team and merchandisers.
• Plan and execute events, fairs, and other promotional activities.
• Work cross functional with Marketing, Category Manager and Key account Managers.
• Budget management.
  

You will report to a Senior Brand Manager in the Ice Cream marketing team. The role is based in our Nordic head office in Solna, Sweden.

What does it take to succeed in the role?

To work within the Ice Cream category, you need to be a person with a winning mindset who likes to work in a dynamic environment with high pace and constantly look for change and improvements to deliver on shopper and consumer needs.

To succeed in this role, you need to:

• Persist a great internal drive with a strong ability to manage your own time and multiple workstreams at once.
• Promote an analytical and result/business-oriented mindset, with a strong passion for growing businesses.
• Inherit a strong blend of people, communication & presentation skills; you’ll need to be credible and confident in front of people with the power to influence and negotiate.
• Be effective in building, maintaining & facilitating relationships within the organisation and with external parties.
  

Besides you have:

• A University degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Marketing is preferred.
• Achieved visible results within sales and/or marketing.
• Experience from trade/shopper marketing and/or brand management.
• Experience from FMCG is a strong merit.
• Experience of project management.
• Fluent skills in Swedish and English, both written and spoken.

What’s in it for you?

As an employee at Unilever, you are offered hybrid working, competitive pay, bonus scheme and benefits (e.g., health care allowance & lunch benefits).

Unilever offers you an exciting opportunity to drive the growth of our strong portfolio brands & categories whilst developing a fulfilling and interesting career. With over 400 brands spanning across 190 markets globally, the world act as your playground with possible next steps both within the Nordics and internationally.

You will get the chance to work with highly passionate, fun, and professional people. You will have clear and stretching responsibilities and play an active role in our business. You will be joining a company with a bigger purpose, to improve the everyday lives of consumers in the Nordics, and to do it in a sustainable way.

Apply today!

The application deadline is 4thth of April. You apply on www.unilever.se/careers/ Upload your CV and Cover Letter in PDF. Keep in mind that the position might be filled before the last day of application. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants.

Please note that there will be an on-going screening process and that the position can be filled before last application date. We use HireVue - Digital interview tool in our recruitment process and will invite potential candidates to participate a recorded video interview.

Contact

For questions about the position, please contact Erik Fredricson +[Register to View] 6. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Advisor Lead: Kira Soini, [Register to View] is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.