Kenvue is currently recruiting for a:
Marketing Assistant: Essential Health
What we do
At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house of iconic brands - including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON’S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent.
Who We Are
Our global team is ~ 22,000 brilliant people with a workplace culture where every voice matters, and every contribution is appreciated. We are passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future–and yours. For more information, click here.
Role reports to:
Head of Essential Health and Skin Health
Location:
Europe/Middle East/Africa, South Africa, West Cape, Cape Town
Work Location:
Fully Onsite
What you will do
We have a great opportunity for a marketing assistant to join our Consumer business. Working within the Marketing Team, you will be responsible for assisting with the implementation of one of our consumer marketing brand plans across Listerine and Stayfree. You will work closely with a broad multi-functional team and marketing leadership to execute and track brand plans through the path to purchase, focusing on 1YOP.
COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrates an understanding of all elements of Brand plan and its impact on the marketing mix choices across the Must Win Battles.
- Assists with understanding of consumer, shopper and marketplace trends and competitor activities to drive competitive advantage.
- Develops project management tools and techniques to define project objectives, milestones, scope, as well as track projects and initiate potential process improvements.
- Demonstrates some knowledge of the brand P&L and its components to determine implications of marketing decisions on brand profitability and build business cases.
- Assist Brand Manager to complete brand performance analysis and deliver recommendations to the Multifunctional team for action
- Shows some understanding of media landscape including Influencer, the role and effectiveness of differing touchpoints for achieving different objectives.
- Assist Brand Manager with demand forecast to address key components and accuracy of forecasting in partnership with Supply Chain
- Can draw on understanding of HCP and support the delivery of key initiatives against “the science of selling” with HCP leads.
- Collaborative attitude to nurture healthy relationships with agencies, vendors, multi-functional teams, HCP’s, and other key partners to support business growth.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
- With support of Brand Manager, executes brand strategy with perfection across 1YOP
- With support of Brand Manager contributes to Delivery of brand Targets on NTS, GP and Share.
- Support specific elements of NPIC launches to ensure flawless execution.
- Conduct regular analysis of available data e.g. sales, shares, penetration etc and Turn data and insights into action to win with consumers. Analysis quality to be shareable up to head of marketing level.
- Contributes to the development of retail ready plans for your brand to deliver Category growth
- Manage media and flow plans and work with media partners to implement optimizations to digital campaigns
- Support manager in fostering external agency relationships and ensure work is delivered on time and within budget. Keep detailed tracking of projects.
- Work closely with Shopper team for effective instore solutions at best possible ROI
- Support HCP team in providing materials useful for executing in market.
- Track each relevant project with legal and regulatory teams to ensure zero tolerance for compliance gaps across brand executions
- Flawlessly Manages brand budget/ expenses across the full purchase to payments cycle.
- Champion your brands within the broader organization.
Qualifications:
- Education: Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing or Similar
- Experience and Skills: +2 years’ experience in marketing positions within FMCG companies
- Proven Track record for managing budgets effectively
- Proven track record on Innovation/ renovation launches
- Proven track record of using data analysis to drive business impact
- Strong ability to drive clear narratives across stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrated resilience – has managed through tough circumstances and grown from it
- Operator mindset – willing to roll up sleeves, show accountability for work and impact
- Demonstrated ability to navigate whitespace with little direction, strong collaborator
- Language: Strong communication required oral and written
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