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CATEGORY/FUNCTION INTRODUCTION
Unilever Canada Skin Cleansing is the category leader with over 30% market share providing superior whole-person wellbeing through irresistible products, joyful experiences, and purposeful brands. We are seeking a Sr. Manager, CS&P Canada, Skin Cleansing to lead our portfolio through end-to-end category and shelf strategy and flawless execution to deliver share winning growth plans. This leader will partner with the Skin Cleansing cross functional leadership as well as the overall Personal Care leadership team to deliver the Canada growth strategy.
JOB PURPOSE
Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. The Customer Strategy & Planning Manager (CSP) is the voice of the customer and the shopper in the Personal Care Business Group. They will be responsible for all commercial levers including performance management, P&L ownership, category and brand operations and planning, shopper marketing, NRM as well as category strategy.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
The CS&P Sr. Manager will set and deploy channel strategy for their category and deploy holistic customer investment across customers to deliver profitable growth. This role represents the customer in core organizational processes including Sales & Operating Plan (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP), & Net Revenue Management (NRM)

The CS&P leads will be responsible for ensuring channel and customer insights are incorporated in the development of brand and category plans and building execution against those plans in the context of retailer strategy inclusive of instore execution elements of Instore Visibility and Integrated OMNI shopper initiatives.

• Responsible for in year delivery, P&L management, customer planning and category strategies including deployment of TTS.
• Bring the retailer shopper voice into the Skin Cleansing business; Pioneer 'consumer love' for the Business Unit and Business Group.
• Sales and Operating Plan - lead consolidated Customer Development (CBD) input and own 'output', drive CBD business performance
• Ensure excellence in brand and customer operations across the SCL business through ownership of S&OP and forecasting processes.
• Development and implementation of channel specific strategies including innovation to address the changing needs of the diverse shoppers across all channels in the Canadian marketplace as a part of Perfect Plan/IBP process
• Develop price, promotion, distribution, and retail strategies for assigned brands with a relentless focus on flawless execution and the shopper.
• Integrate Category Management functions to deliver brand/marketing strategies - ensuring brand DNA comes to life at shelf.
• Make strategic brand trade-offs at shelf, guiding brand teams on most effective shelving strategy.
• Input into innovation / renovation business cases e.g. pack size by channel, pricing, distribution targets & trade margins
• Leverage Net Revenue Management (NRM) strategies to maximize ROI on trade strategy.
• Develop and empower a high performing team of 4 people

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 8+ years of experience in consumer goods and sales/customer development
• Strong understanding of customer operations and channel drivers
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Understanding of Net Revenue Management concepts
• Leverages Category Management generated insights to develop/execute fully integrated brand/category strategies and activities for customers.
• Proven ability to demonstrate analytical thinking, data-driven decision making, and ability to influence strategy through storytelling, data and insights

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.
• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people - coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

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Unilever Canada est une organisation engage a la diversite et a l'inclusion pour stimuler nos resultats d'affaires et creer un meilleur avenir chaque jour pour nos employes, les consommateurs globaux, les partenaires et les communautes. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifiee nous permet de faire correspondre nos ambitions de croissance et de stimuler l'inclusion dans l'entreprise. Tous les candidats qualifies recevront la consideration pour un emploi sans egard a la race, la couleur, la religion, le sexe, l'orientation sexuelle, l'identite ou l'expression de genre, l'age, l'origine nationale ou ethnique, l'etat matrimonial, la situation familiale, l'invalidite, les caracteristiques genetique, et une condamnation pour laquelle un pardon a ete accordee.
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