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SalaryInnovation Intern UKI – Elida Beauty
Work Location – UK, Battersea
Job Type- Full Time / 12 month placement in your penultimate year of University
Who we are … we are Elida Beauty
Elida Beauty is a very exciting new beauty business within Unilever. We are re-founding iconic brands by remixing them for today’s generation, making them even bigger beauty hits than they were the first time around. Our remixes democratize beauty, because we want everyone on the ‘beauty dance floor’ with top-quality products at great value.
Driven by our colleague’s creativity, agility and close connection with consumers, customers, and suppliers, we are able to unleash the true potential of our already loved brands with a fresh start. We ‘Re-Found’ them using a start-up mentality that always ‘finds a way’. Our ‘no silos’, one team approach drives both personal and business growth so that together we deliver outcomes that are music to the ears of consumers, customers, colleagues and the planet alike.
At Elida Beauty…
You will be empowered to act as a “founder” and develop the skills of a CEO, learn, grow fail and succeed with a like-minded team and reap the reward for your efforts.
You will be encouraged to take risks in an environment where work outcomes are rewarded consistently and fairly.
You will challenge yourself to find innovative, outside-of-the box solutions, so you can grow yourself and others.
What is this role?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious intern to contribute to the new product development for the hair category within the Elida Beauty business. This role requires working with multiple partners, including the brand teams, along with functions across the wider team.
Exciting and fast-paced, this will be a busy and dynamic environment where you will be expected to work collectively with teams across the business to unlock the power of our brands for both consumers and the customer.
This is an exciting role where an intern can really learn a lot and get to grips with working in a marketing team and contributing to iconic brands in Elida Beauty’s Hair portfolio.
A passion for consumer understanding will be key, as we seek to lead categories with highly functional product performance linked to insight driven claims that result in conversion to sales.
Reporting into the Elida Hair Innovation Manager, you will work together to be the market and consumer trends experts, leading innovation planning and execution, as well as margin accretion and compliancy initiatives across the hair brands in the Elida Beauty portfolio.
This will require the ability to take a big picture approach and to work closely with stakeholders to drive growth. You will need to work particularly closely internally with commercial, R&D, finance, and supply chain teams as well as external partners to deliver exciting innovation roadmap plans and new product launches into market.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Market and consumer trends : Working closely with the consumer insight and analytics manager you will need to ensure the rest of the team are up to speed and act as the experts for the business.
- Analysing and discovering insight from claims
- Contributing to the hair innovation roadmap: Together with the innovation manager you will identify product gaps and opportunities, or upgrades that can drive brand or profit growth.
- Innovation project activity: The innovation team will guide projects from insight through to execution in market.. Working with the brand activation teams you will conduct thorough post launch evaluations to ensure all learnings are recycled back into the business.
- Compliancy, quality and savings: The Innovation team will also be responsible for any marketing inputs required on projects driving legal compliancy (due to changes in regulations) and or savings initiatives designed to drive margin accretion.
This is a one year internship and the main requirement is a passion for learning and marketing.
- A base understanding of the importance of consumer insight and how this translates into marketing planning and execution. You will have plenty of opportunities to develop these skills further in the type of work you will be asked to do.
- An ability to prioritizing and organizing work across projects in a busy, dynamic working environment.
- Analytical capability
- Excellent organization skills
- Ability to work with people across different functions and with different working styles.
- Base understanding of how the P&L is structured
- Experience working on beauty or personal care brands will be an advantage but not a necessity.
- Glass half full. You will be a positive solution finder, who is driven, curious, and bold. But also, honest and empathetic, this is a team orientated environment where everyone has a voice and you must be willing to listen to different points of view.
- Passionate about products and trends. You want to get under the skin of what will really drive an amazing product experience and create the next big thing!
- A great negotiator and influencer. This is a complex role, with many stakeholders and inputs. You will need to have patience and be able to flex your style and approach.
- A pragmatic problem solver. Driven to work in a high functioning team which pivots to meet the latest challenge – agility will be critical.
- Excited to push boundaries. You will be able to find creative solutions within tight budgets.
- Inclusive and motivated. A self-starter looking for the opportunity to show what they can do. You will need to be comfortable managing projects autonomously.
To ensure that your personal creativity helps to unlock our potential, we will upskill and reskill you. We will develop leading-edge digital marketing skills and best-in-class teamworking capabilities.
Most importantly, we will give you the autonomy to use them like a ‘founder’. We will help you to think like a CEO so that we all focus on delivering our Purpose and so you drive growth as you develop. Imagine how good we will feel when we see that our creativity reignites growth in the business because consumers embrace our new ideas.
Better for our consumers, better for the world and better for each of us
The way we manufacture, package and distribute our products will be better for everyone and for the planet. We will bring a new meaning to diversity and inclusion by providing access to beauty products that suit every kind of skin and hair.
