Personal Care Brand Finance Lead presso Unilever

Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.

Job title: Personal Care Brand Finance Lead

Location: 100VE, London

Work Level: WL3X

Function: Finance

Job Purpose

Unilever’s Personal Care division is a €13+ billion business, home to iconic brands such as Dove, Rexona, Lux, Axe, Lifebuoy, and Pepsodent. As Personal Care’s Brand Finance Lead, you will be a strategic partner to the Personal Care Chief Marketing Officer and their leadership team, driving financial performance, enabling growth, and shaping the future of our brand portfolio through data-driven insights and commercial acumen. You will also lead a high performing team that is responsible for partnering Personal Care’s R&D function and FET team.

This role is pivotal in delivering profitable growth, supporting innovation, and ensuring financial stewardship across the Personal Care categories (Oral Care, Deodorants and Skin Cleansing). You will report into the Personal Care Chief Finance Officer and collaborate closely with marketing, R&D, CMI and supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Performance Management

• Lead financial strategic planning and category building through a brand lens for Personal Care, portfolio strategy, pricing, and resource allocation.
• Lead a team that partners with Brand Directors and Global Brand Vice Presidents to model business scenarios, assess growth levers, and evaluate market development opportunities.
• Drive strategic interventions to address performance gaps and unlock value through margin accretive innovation and cost optimisation.
• Provide insights and input to the Personal Care Chief Marketing Officer to support the strategic direction of Personal Care, with a particular focus on how to unlock social first and desire at scale
• Owns central budget for PC >200m€ including Marketing and R&D, securing strategic investment and return on Investment.

Innovation & Business Case Leadership

• Co-create innovation business cases with cross-functional teams (Supply Chain, R&D, CMI), ensuring robust financial modelling and strategic alignment.
• Influence decision-making at key innovation gates and support post-launch interventions to maximise ROI.

Budgeting & Resource Allocation

• Champion Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) principles to drive accountability and optimise spend across categories.
• Ensure financial rigour in resource prioritisation and activation of strategic initiatives.

Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and develop a high-performing finance team, fostering a culture of ownership, agility, and consumer-centricity.
• Embed Unilever’s behaviours: Care Deeply, Focus on What Counts, Stay Three Steps Ahead, and Deliver with Excellence.

Key Relationships

• Personal Care CFO and Finance Leadership Team
• Personal Care CMO and Global Brand VPs and Directos
• Supply Chain, R&D, CMI, and Procurement Teams

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience in senior finance roles within FMCG or consumer goods, ideally with exposure to Personal Care or Beauty categories.
• Strong strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and stakeholder management.
• Expertise in financial modelling, performance management, and innovation finance.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving transformation initiatives.

NOTES

Please apply via this portal as e-mail applications may not be processed and include your Future Fit Plan if possible.

By applying for this vacancy, you are confirming that you have made your Line Manager aware of your application and that you are at a point in your career with Unilever where it is appropriate for you to be applying for other positions.   

Should you require additional information or reasonable adjustments to allow you to present your best self during this process, please contact your Talent Partner FULL NAME on Sophie.Whall@unilever.com  

What we offer

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 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 (unilever.com).

Location  

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

Relocation to the UK 

Please be aware if you are applying for this role from outside the UK, if successful, your application will be treated as a self-initiated Change Location Outside of Country (CLOC) transfer. This means any relocation costs must be self-funded with the potential to reclaim some specific pre-approved expenses up to £5,000. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you have any questions.