Job Description

Job Title: Home Care Fabric Cleaning Lead - UKI
Location: Sunlight House, Kingston

JOB PURPOSE

Fabric Cleaning is the powerhouse of Unilever Home Care in the UK — our largest category and home to two iconic brands: Persil and Surf.

Persil, the #1 Fabric Cleaning brand in the UK (RSV £290m+), is one of the most recognised and trusted names in the market. Driven by its world-renowned “Dirt is Good” platform, Persil combines superior performance with purpose — inspiring people to get stuck into life without fear of getting dirty.

Surf, one of the UK’s biggest Home Care brands (RSV €170m+), wins with long-lasting fragrance, great value and a playful personality. As the #1 fragrance brand in UK Fabric Cleaning, Surf connects with consumers through emotion and sensorial superiority.

With an ambitious innovation and portfolio roadmap ahead, this role plays a defining part in shaping the future of the category. We are looking for a commercially sharp, entrepreneurial and growth-driven leader to drive transformational growth across Persil and Surf, unlock the next phase of our Wonder Wash portfolio, and build distinctive consumer journeys across all channels.

This is a high-visibility strategic role with significant exposure to UKI Home Care leadership, European Business Unit and Global Brand teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the Persil and Surf growth agenda, owning full P&L accountability and delivering against market share, turnover and profitability targets.

• Shape and execute the brand and portfolio strategy, driving long-term category value and sustainable growth.

• Drive portfolio prioritisation and investment trade-offs to maximise short- and long-term performance.

• Lead high-profile innovation and renovation programmes end-to-end, ensuring pace, quality and strong commercial delivery.

• Partner with CMI and Net Revenue Management to unlock new growth opportunities across channels and shopper missions.

• Develop and deliver integrated, multi-channel communication strategies (Digital, TV, PR, Influencers, Shopper), ensuring creative excellence, memorable consumer journey and local relevance.

• Partner with Sales and CSP to shape channel strategy, expand distribution and drive promotional and shopper excellence.

• Influence and align European and Global stakeholders, ensuring UK strategy is represented and embedded within broader business priorities.

• Lead post-launch and campaign performance optimisation, translating data and insights into decisive action.

• Build and lead a high-performing team, developing future marketing leaders and strengthening category capability.

• Champion an entrepreneurial and agile mindset, driving continuous improvement in ways of working and innovation governance.

Key Relationships

• UK Home Care Marketing Team

• Digital Marketing, Media & Commerce (DMC)

• Agency partners (creative, digital, influencer, media, activations)

• R&D, Finance, Supply Chain

• UK Customer Strategy & Planning (CSP), Category Management, Shopper & Sales teams

• European Business Unit

• Global Brand Teams

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Established experience in Brand Management or related commercial roles within FMCG or a dynamic consumer environment

• Proven track record of delivering sustainable and profitable growth, with full P&L ownership and accountability.

• Strong experience leading complex innovation pipelines and high-investment, multi-channel communication strategies

• Advanced commercial and financial acumen, with confidence managing revenue,marginand investment decisions.

• Demonstrated ability to shape brand and portfolio strategy and influence senior stakeholders within a matrix organisation.

• Proven people leadership experience, building and developing high-performing teams.

• Enterprise mindset with the ability to balance short-term delivery and long-term brand equity building.

• Bachelor’s degreerequired; MBA or postgraduate qualification preferred.

WHAT WE OFFER

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

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 are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. 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 at Unilever | Unilever

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