Retail Media Executive - Secondment

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Job Title: Retail Media Executive - Secondment

Location: Kingston

Work-Level: 1C

 
JOB PURPOSE 

You will be executing onsite media (Search & Display) and retailer-partnered offsite (paid social, BVOD, DOOH) campaigns with our key retailers. You’ll be customer facing with our strategic retailers and their media agencies, working closely with Mindshare and collaborating with Brand, DMC, Shopper & Commercial teams. This role will deliver personalisation at scale through on and offsite media campaigns, executing brilliantly for Unilever brands. You’ll also be working directly with our customers to build and nurture retail media partnerships, ensuring the shopper journey is consistent and connected.  

The retail media landscape is fast evolving so you’ll need to keep up with the latest technology, be curious and inquisitive, and feel comfortable analysing and interpreting data. You’ll be responsible for planning, activating and reviewing campaigns, plus owning the optimisations and performance reporting with Mindshare and retailers.  

Sounds like a big role? Well it is! You’ll have true ownership over our Business Units media activation plans on key retailers, whilst learning from and being supported by a close team of retail media experts. If you’re up for a challenge and want to develop highly sort after skills in the next frontier of digital marketing then this role is for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Plan and execute always-on onsite campaigns (across display and search)  
• Plan and execute offsite campaigns via Retail Media Networks  
• Build campaign briefs with defined audiences, KPIs and clear campaign objective  
• Lead asset creation process from briefing to final sign-off for each brand  
• Manage budget process from forecasting in myBMI to raising POs and tracking spend  
• Own DDM post campaign analysis (PCAs) with retailers and share DDM and onsite search performance with CAMs, Shopper, DMC & Brand  
• Support paid search activation   
• Lead media best practices, ensuring Unilever media standards are implemented and tracked for all retailer DDM campaigns   
• Synthesise DDM campaign learnings to continuously improve our DDM performance  
• Upskill the broader business on DDM and retail media  

ALL ABOUT YOU 

• Retail Media experience: knowledge of Retail Media Networks  
• Customer facing experience: working with customers and/or their media agencies across growing and complex media landscape
• Media agency management: experience briefing and managing the campaign process with agency  
• Ideal experience: Media, Shopper, Commercial, Digital   
• Retail Media experience: knowledge of Retail Media Networks e.g. Criteo, Citrus  
• Project management with experience working in cross functional teams with multiple stakeholders (internally & externally).  
• Stakeholder management with proven ability to build and develop relationships, preferably with customers or agencies.  
• Excellent Communication with proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel and good attention to detail.  
• Reliable and Accountable – takes pride in their work and strives for excellence.  
• Business Acumen- able to evaluate media investments through a commercial lens.   
• Bias For Action- a doer, not a talker. Be able to get things done, on time and in full.  
• A Creative Eye – able to recognise and strive for best in class creative assets.  
• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.  
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.  
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.  
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.  
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.  
• Passion To Learn – keen to develop new skills and not afraid to ask for help.  

NOTES

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Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner listed at the right hand side of this vacancy. 

What we offer

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (unilever.com).

Location  

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London.  This site will house some employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars together with colleagues who are currently located in Lever House in Kingston. We are excited to be creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment. The campus is due to be completed in 2026.

Relocation to the UK 

Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.