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Business Context and Job Summary

CloseUp is the world’s No. 1 freshness brand in Oral Care. It pioneered the gel toothpaste format over 50 years ago and has since popularized anti-bacterial efficacy in toothpaste as well as become known for uniquely fresh and exciting flavors. CloseUp is a challenger brand in many markets, leading market development for the freshness segment and injecting fun into what otherwise would be a low-involvement category.

CMI Manager, Global Closeup is a Global role for Strategic Partnership with the Global Close Up Team, the role is based in India. You will play a key role in shaping the key Brand trajectory, showing the Business key growth opportunities, and partnering with a leadership Team comprising of Brand Directors and Category Vice President, a global cross-functional leadership team, and the CMI community.

The role requires considerable influence in keeping the core intact, harmonizing the brand across countries and categories, and also looking for how the brand can stretch in the future to new categories and formats. It also requires creating and driving winning future-facing and agile innovation tapping into emergent market trends. Put simply, you will play a key role in helping the Brand and business reach its ambition.

To grow big we need to think big. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to drive an aggressive growth agenda, make a big impact, and leave a positive legacy.

To support the aggressive growth agenda, you will have proven leadership skills, strong strategic rigor, be comfortable pushing back and managing senior stakeholders, proven experience in collaboration and knowing when (and who) to pull in different expertise, a strong background in analyzing the market, be able to decipher multiple information sources into a succinct story and point of view, experience in innovation development and have a diverse research background. We are looking for people who are future fit, excel in digital marketing and channels of the future, and have a strong balance of intellectual and emotional quotient.

Key Responsibilities

The core purpose of this role is to show the business where and how to win by championing and being the voice of the consumer. You need to be able to anticipate business partner needs before they know they need them.

• Strategic planning both at a category, brand, Global, and Regional level

• Setting the long & short-term growth agenda, identifying growth spots, future-proofing the portfolio

• Future facing Innovation & Brand Strategy

• An intimate understanding of business performance, priorities, and cross-functional needs

• Proactive knowledge of hot spots and opportunities

• Offer foresight rather than just insight

• Gatekeeping

• Briefing, managing, and landing all strategic understanding projects

• Project planning, brief creation/ brief ownership/ landing debrief/ research findings – local & regional projects

• Collaboration within the CMI community

• Harnessing and being on top of category and brand-related trends

• Staying abreast with consumer trends

• Leveraging all the tools and insights at our fingertips/ bringing everything together to land a clear and concise story that ultimately drives business action

• Driving global synergies – fewer, bigger better

• Managing CMI budgets

• Managing relationships across other CMI teams, agency partners, CTI, and cross-functional teams

Reporting through to the CMI Director, the successful candidate is:

• Preferred to have a minimum of 7-10 years of relevant experience

• Needs to proactive

• Able to work autonomously

• Know how to prioritise

• Have strong communication and storytelling skills

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Job Type: CMI Manager

Industry: UnileverExperiencedProfessionals