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Lead cross-brand capability building for Innovation and Creative Excellence within Unilever Prestige, a leading global luxury beauty company. The role involves developing and embedding new marketing capabilities, partnering with CMI, upskilling marketers, and influencing teams to turn best practice into everyday practice across the Prestige portfolio.
Job Responsibility:
Lead cross-brand capability building for Innovation and Creative Excellence
Develop and embed new marketing capabilities (New Product Development, social listening, insight-to-action)
Partner with CMI to track and improve innovation quality
Upskill portfolio’s marketers on creative excellence: writing better briefs, judging creative, and deploying social-first tools to be more relevant in culture
Influence brand/product marketing teams through training modules, toolkits, and workshops
Build & Scale Capabilities
Design and deliver training modules, certifications, and workshops for product and brand marketers
measure capability lift and adoption
Design and roll out playbooks, standards, and toolkits for trend-spotting, innovation funnel health, and creative excellence
Pilot new tools (such as creative evaluation frameworks, modular content systems) and codify ways of working for adoption across brands
Lead always-on social listening to identify early signals and creator-led trends
translate into innovation territories and creative inspiration
Innovation Quality
Partner with CMI to define and track innovation quality metrics (consumer problem clarity, proposition strength, mix readiness)
Coach teams on insight-to-brief and brief-to-mix excellence
ensure stage-gate deliverables are decision-ready
Quality of Creativity
Deploy ECE (Enabling Creative Excellence) principles: how to write unmissable briefs, judge creative ideas, and apply effectiveness criteria
Introduce social-first codes to make creativity work harder for conversion and brand power
Curate and share latest learnings, tools, and benchmarks from global creative effectiveness studies
Enable a repository of agency of records for Prestige
Governance & Performance
Reports to Prestige Central Marketing Capabilities Lead
Serve as a trusted capability partner to Portfolio CMO’s —advising on agency choices, creative storytelling, and test-and-learn approaches
Establish KPIs for capability adoption and impact (innovation success rate, creative effectiveness scores, speed-to-market)
Publish dashboards and best-practice playbacks
Requirements:
Proven/ Established experience in global/central marketing, innovation, or marketing excellence roles within beauty/personal care or CPG
Proven track record in capability building: toolkits, training, and adoption across multiple markets
Strong New Product Development knowledge and creative development experience (briefing, judging, content optimization)
Hands-on with social listening tools and creative evaluation frameworks
Data-literate and CMI-savvy
comfortable with insight synthesis and effectiveness metrics
Excellent facilitation and storytelling skills
credible with senior stakeholders
high autonomy and accountability
What we offer:
Flexible working options
Family-friendly and inclusive workplace
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives
Reasonable adjustments during application and interview process