Scope : this position will be supporting select BU’s across a key geographical Americas region ngaging with key senior stakeholders both in countries and within the GBS communities.

Job Purpose:

Deliver value across all Marketing Hub delivered and connected activities by driving continuous improvement and future transformation of the performance management of day-to-day delivery at scale in collaboration with our Partners and GMS Product Owners. This role is responsible to connect with both the GMS Product Owner team and in-country operational marketing teams to drive the adoption, execution and continuous transformation of GMS Hub capabilities/enablers.​

Key Accountabilities of the role include:

• Own the execution and adoption of the GMS capabilities and enablers across the pillars within markets​

• Sequence and execute transformation initiatives with countries/BUs as governed by GMS Product Owners

• Drive continuous improvement agenda with our Partners​

Key Responsibilities:

Owns prioritization of capability adoption of capabilities & transformation roadmap across pillars within the geographies on behalf of global GMS Product Owners and in coordination with IT, Country Performance Delivery Lead, and Country Marketing team​

• Address adoption issues and outside system work-arounds​

• Work with global Product, and IT teams for any exception/change requirements​

• Benchmark usage and effectiveness relative to other sites / markets​

• Drives process-based / capability-based governance and benchmarking within geography​

• Ensure assets are maximized before any small tech or auxiliary automations are developed to support operations​

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Owns continuous improvement agenda in collaboration with partners & country​

• Drives governance to ensure right prioritization of initiatives across markets with the Partner "TIO” (Transformation & Innovation Office)

• Ensures CI agenda of partners is aligned to UL priorities, roadmap, framework​

• Cross pollinate learnings / experience from within organization into our partner operations​

• Identify Best Practices - External and Internal. Explore emerging trends and actively seek opportunities to - SIMPLIFY, ELIMINATE, CONSOLIDATE, CENTRALISE, AUTOMATE​

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Unilever SPOC for global process excellence team into the geography​

• Drives prioritization of Product execution within the geography/BUs in alignment with global Product team​

• Represents markets within geography in global process / capability discussions and community of practices​

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Drive effectiveness and consistency of operating model (governance, gatekeeping, etc).

Required Qaualifications:

• Business acumen and customer centric mindset​

• E2E function agnostic integrator (non-silo mentality)​

• Demonstrable Agile mindset and capabilities​

• Ability to drive change ​

• Holding people accountable (peers, leaders and external stakeholders) and strong personal accountability for delivery​

• Team leadership experience​

• Ability to work effectively in both independent and diverse multi-task team environments ​

• Experienced in leading/working with virtual teams and driving performance across diverse mixture of cultures. ​

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