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Job Summary
As the Wild ANZ Business Development Manager, you will shape, scale, and accelerate one of Unilever’s most exciting purposeled brands across Australia and New Zealand. You will be the connector between Wild Global and ANZ, leading brand strategy, category growth, media and activation planning, innovation pipeline development, and retailerspecific execution.
Key Responsibilities
Wild ANZ Strategy & Business Growth Model
Collaborate with Wild Global to localise, develop and execute the strategy and build actionable, insightled ANZ growth plans
Deliver strategy working with local & global marketing on demand creation & ANZ sales teams to unlock sales results
Work closely with global teams to shape the innovation pipeline for 2026 and beyond using Australian consumer, shopper, and category insights
Customer, Category & Shopper Insight
Support the CSP Lead with customer and category insights to shape strategy, pricing and range review outcomes
Act as the shopper marketing lead to deliver bestinclass instore activations and retailerspecific campaigns
Generate standardised monthly category reporting and collaborate with Sales to deliver insightled retailer conversations
Partner with Sales teams to bring insightled recommendations to retailers
Brand & Marketing
Ensure flawless planning and execution of media activities, partnering with the global team on asset creation and localisation
Redefine the ANZ influencer strategy to ensure alwayson, culturally relevant, creatorled content
Explore and shape ambassador opportunities, collaborations and retailer partnerships, that align with Wild’s purpose and consumer base
Operational & Commercial Excellence
Partner with global supply chain and procurement to unlock efficiencies and deliver a strong fuel for growth pipeline
Key Requirements
Experience
Commercial experience, ideally cross functional with customer facing and category exposure
Proven track record in FMCG or similar fast paced retail environments
Strong experience in analysis, insights, and datadriven storytelling
Core Skills
Go to Market Strategy: Generates objective brand, channel, category and shopper insights. Translates data into strategic recommendations that reflect the Wild ANZ consumer
Data Literacy & Storytelling: Uses analytics to form compelling narratives and drive decisions
Integrated Media and Shopper Excellence: Ensures flawless delivery across media, shopper, PR, influencer, and instore execution
Commercial Strategy: Evaluates investment allocation and shared value opportunities
What awaits you at Unilever?
The core of Unilever’s culture is captured as Human, Purposeful, Accountable. You will be joining a dynamic, flexible, and inspiring work environment that truly cares about your wellbeing, values what you do and celebrates your success.
This is your opportunity to be part of a purpose-led business and a global community where you can progress your career both locally and internationally. You will also benefit from amazing discounts on external company products, attractive employee referral reward program amongst other benefits.
This is a great opportunity to work within an iconic and global organization. We have gained our reputation as one of the world's most admired employers by providing an environment where individuals can achieve their goals, both professionally and personally.
Make no mistake we expect a lot from our people as they do of us. So, if you can rise to the challenge, don't waste any time - apply now!
Unilever is an organization committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities.
This means we encourage people with all backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pacific Peoples, and people with disabilities.
At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! We encourage you to advise us at the time of your application if you require any reasonable adjustment so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
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