Assistant Brand Manager - BLU Asia Hub (1 year contract)

Your Tasks

The position reports directly to the Senior Brand Manager BLU Asia Hub and is responsible for:

• Support the strategic and conceptual advancement of NIVEA`s product portfolio in Asia (including China), for the assigned categories
• Facilitate the implementation of aligned strategy and innovations of NIVEA Asia portfolio within the Pre-IIM and IIM development process:
• Responsible for implementing, adapting, or creating a NIVEA skincare pipeline for the assigned categories (from short- to long-term planning)
• Steering as marketing core team in IIM for Asia Innovation projects to make sure innovation launch in the market on-time
• Steering and realization of the Asia pipeline from BLU Category within the IIM process, actively align – within limitations and where possible – global and Asia pipelines and IIM projects to maximize synergies
• Understand regulatory challenges & requirement in Asia region to feeding information to global marketing team/innovation team to maximize innovation opportunity in region.
• Continuous exchange with Marketing colleagues in the Region and their adjoining functions
• Monitor consumer needs, trends, ingredients, understand needs of professional target groups, as well as monitoring competition
• To develop launch controls/trackers to guide and influence future brand decisions
• To ensure and foster collaboration, information and best practice sharing among BLU and Asia and rest of world countries
• Participation in regular strategy and pipeline meetings with Asia stakeholders

Your Profile

• University degree
• 3 years of working experience in marketing (internationally), ideally with experience in Asia as an advantage
• Team player who has experience working in cross-functional, international, dynamic & diverse teams
• Convincing personality, strong influencing skills, able to lead and motivate stakeholders
• Ability to manage high complexity & to work in dynamic, changing environment
• High level of resilience and assertiveness
• Very good conceptual and analytical skills,
• Self-motivated, proactive working style, positive mind set and can-do attitude
• Confident communicator with strong written and oral presentation skills
• International mindset and intercultural competence
• Fluency in English both spoken and written