PZ Cussons Hiring for Brand Manager at Richmond, Victoria, Australia Full Time

**12month Parental Leave contract**

• Drive amazing global Beauty Brands – St Tropez, Fudge Professional alongside famed personal care brands Original Source, Imperial Leather
• Genuine Career Development opportunities
• Great Company Culture and Work life balance (hybrid and half day Fridays)
• New state of the art offices – central Richmond location

International FMCG PZ Cussons currently has an exciting opportunity for a creative and commercially minded Marketer ideally with 4+ years’ experience, that has a passion for beauty and an understanding of personal care products.

We are looking for a highly organised and talented Brand Manager to join the marketing team to work on exciting and innovative cross functional projects across our Beauty and Personal Care portfolio.

This is a rare opportunity to join this amazing team with highly experienced mentors at your fingertips in our superb new location at 510 Church St Richmond.

About Us

With a reputation for excellence and an impressive brand portfolio including Rafferty’s Garden, Morning Fresh, Radiant and St Tropez, PZ Cussons Australia is part of the growing global success story with more great innovation ahead.

At PZ Cussons, we are passionate about our culture, our brands, our people, and their development. The employee driven Social, Health and Wellbeing committee initiates regular activities such as fun runs; social lawn bowls events and volunteer days. In addition, we have a forward thinking Flexible Work Policy; Half-day Fridays; generous staff product discounts as well as access to over 16,000 online courses from LinkedIn Learning.

The Role

This role will suit an early career Brand Manager looking for a genuine career development opportunity or you may be a talented and highly experienced Assistant Brand Manager ready for a new challenge! Either way, you will have an affinity for high quality brands and experience in Project and Brand Management. You will need to be commercially savvy with a strong understanding of the FMCG landscape and/or the Pharmacy customer and preferably have had some experience within:

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in developing & articulating winning strategies for Beauty and Personal Care brands, including long term 3-year plans
• Lead the implementation of the marketing aspects of the growth plans, ensure excellent timely and cost compliant execution.
• Work with global brand owners to ensure key initiatives can be deployed to advance growth in ANZ
• Work closely with the Sales team to establish strategies to win with key customer partners. Key participant in category review process and customer engagement sessions
• Work within the A&P budget to produce the best communication solutions & promotional program delivery
• Ensure delivery of all key financial KPIs for relevant brands
• Deliver the sales and market share goals
• Develop & deliver all stage-gate projects & marketing communication plans
• Support commercial governance of relevant brands including review of the portfolio P&L and contribution through the IBP process

Qualifications and experience

To be the successful candidate you will have a relevant tertiary qualification in Marketing/Business/Commerce and ideally have 3+ years’ experience as a Brand Manager/experienced Assistant Brand Manager or equivalent role, preferably in FMCG environment.

You will have a high level of attention to detail and love managing projects. Along with Brand management and marketing functional experience, covering project management & creative development, you will have managed integrated communication strategies and have some P&L management. You will also have experience in developing key messages for presenting to trading partners

Your ideal proven marketing toolkit will include:

•  Consumer led orientation, ability to develop brand strategies and marketing plans
•  Influencing and interpersonal skills
•  Commercial acumen and ability to drive performance and delivery of results
•  Collaborative operational approach which builds trust and enables effective development of relationships across functions
• ‘Hands on’ approach with desire to make your mark

Employee Benefits

Half day Fridays (yes, every week!)

Hybrid Working – personalised flexibility re work from home

Annual Bonus scheme

Online Training – access to full LinkedIn Learning suite of 60,000 courses

Career Development Plan and Mentoring Program

12 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers

Volunteering Days – gifted to support our partner agencies

Generous Staff Discounts

Weekly recognition awards – aligned to our BEST Values

Heath, Social & Wellbeing committee that offer;

• Bake-off competitions
• Monthly birthday morning tea!
• Corporate Games
• Trivia lunches
• Festive celebrations, Giving tree
• Wednesday run club
• Annual Flu-shots
• Quarterly drinks

Does this sound like you?

You will be a Team Player with great Communication skills (verbal and written). You will need a strong interest in learning and developing your knowledge of general marketing principles, product development, pricing strategy, distribution strategy, adverting and promotional strategy, strategic planning process. You will be a Creative and Analytical Self-Starter.

If you have a positive attitude, are passionate about these brands and are looking to join a well-regarded International FMCG with a truly amazing culture, please apply.

*We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!**