Assistant Global CSP Manager

Job Title: Assistant Global CSP Manager, Beauty and Wellbeing

Reports To: BG B&W CSP Lead - India

Location: Mumbai, India

Drive Unbeatable Beauty Execution in India & Shape Global Retail Excellence

Be the engine that powers Unilever's Beauty & Wellbeing growth in India, ensuring world-class execution across every touchpoint. Simultaneously, you'll leverage your expertise to elevate our beauty retail execution standards on a global scale, focusing on practical implementation and tangible results. This will directly address our strategic imperative for flawless market execution and accelerated growth in India and other global markets.

This individual will be the operational backbone, translating strategic plans into on-the-ground reality. They'll ensure our innovations land effectively, driving critical capabilities in digital and quick commerce, and overseeing perfect store actions including the global Unmissable POSM (UPOSM) programme. Their focus on execution excellence, coupled with global retail best practices, will be instrumental in unlocking significant market share gains and improving our return on investment across all channels. This is a lean but high-impact role vital for delivering our ambitious 2025 targets.

Your Role in Action:

I. Elevating India's Beauty Execution Capabilities (30%):

• Implement and drive adoption of Category Management and Shopper Insights tools within local CSP teams, ensuring their effective use to identify and capture growth opportunities.

• Orchestrate and execute the Beauty Selling Academy program for frontline teams, focusing on practical skill-building that translates to superior in-store experiences and drives sales. Oversee the hands-on implementation of the Beauty Advisor program in India.

• Support the rigorous channel-specific execution of portfolio strategies to accelerate growth, specifically managing the logistical and operational aspects of expanding into the high-growth quick commerce channel and optimizing overall e-commerce presence.

• Drive the practical application of NRM pricing strategies at the point of sale, ensuring flawless price execution that reinforces brand superiority and maximizes value.

• Lead the ground-level implementation of perfect store actions across all relevant channels in India.

II. Bringing India's Executional Reality to Global Innovation (30%):

• Act as the execution expert within global innovation squads, providing concrete, on-the-ground insights into market, customer, and channel realities in India to ensure new launches are operationally feasible and impactful from day one.

• Develop and implement practical go-to-market strategies for India, including channel-specific activation plans for PPA (Pricing, Promotion, Assortment) and promotions.

• Ensure "Social First" assets are execution-ready for the Indian market, considering platform nuances and local consumer behavior to drive maximum impact.

III. Driving Global Excellence in Beauty Retail Execution (40%):

• Lead the practical deployment and adoption of the Retail Beauty Academy App within shopper marketing teams globally, focusing on driving usage and measuring its impact on retail execution.

• Champion the pragmatic implementation of the "Design Once, Deploy Everywhere" POSM strategy globally, ensuring POSM is not only designed but effectively produced and placed in diverse retail environments. Drive the evaluation and integration of cutting-edge AI-powered POSM tools for enhanced execution and ROI.

• Lead the global Un-Missable POSM Community of Practice, focusing on sharing actionable best practices and real-world execution examples across markets.

• Develop and implement clear "Look of Success" guidelines by channel globally, establishing measurable execution metrics and rigorously tracking performance. Oversee the systematic tracking of all POSM deployments and their effectiveness scores over time.

• Collaborate with global CSP teams to drive the practical roll-out of execution best practices and tools into key markets, sharing learnings and actively supporting implementation.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven expertise and a strong track record of driving successful, hands-on execution in commercial roles within the FMCG sector, especially in the dynamic quick commerce and e-commerce landscapes.

• Exceptional project management and organizational skills, with a laser focus on delivering tangible outcomes.

• Deep understanding of the Indian retail landscape and the practicalities of execution across traditional, e-commerce, and quick commerce channels.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and drive collaborative execution across diverse teams.

• A proactive, problem-solving approach with a commitment to finding practical solutions for executional challenges.

• Familiarity with POSM deployment processes and a keen interest in leveraging data and technology (including AI) to optimize execution effectiveness.

Ready to be the execution powerhouse that fuels India's beauty growth and elevates global retail standards? Apply now