Job Description

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We are looking to hire a Global Oral Care Claims Manager in our Oral Care team based in Mumbai:

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Oral Care category, through its Billion Smiles Mission, strives to bring healthy teeth and beautiful smiles to 1 billion consumers every day. Unilever Oral Care is the market leader or the second biggest player in 8 out of the ten key markets it operates. The category represents a huge growth opportunity for Unilever through investing its core brands with superior technology and claims.
As a Claims & Professional Comms Manager, you will be in a competitive environment with a highly skilled and experienced team, creating and leading the claims mapping strategy for the brands you are working with. You will be applying your creative scientific skills developing - and potentially patenting \xe2\x80\x93 new substantiation methodologies to deploy consumer led superior claims in your projects. Making the most of our advanced - leading edge oral care technologies, you will be building the professional comms capability in D&E.
Job Responsibilities

• Design, map and lead short- and long-term claims strategy for the brand.
• Translate consumer insights into creative claims and able to design new substantiation methods to substantiate desired claims.
• Have a deep understanding holistic product design and the link between oral care benefits and sensory cues in product design to construct the right claims with RTBs.
• Create memorable and distinctive selling story assets across channels with internal and external partners
• Partner with clinicals team to maximize ROI on clinical investment taking into consideration long term category strategy; also incorporating legal and regulatory requirements of different countries.
• Provide input for challenge and/or respond to market challenges with a clear strategical approach partnering legal, regulatory, and local teams.
• Translate our superior and advanced technology and product benefits into world class professional assets, building the professional communication capability in D&E.

• Proven experience and substantial track record in a category R&D function, including significant Claims experience
• Strong Skills in the areas of Insights mining, determining consumer needs and linking them to build new claims opportunities and selling stories
• Highly skilled and competent in working and managing cross-functional teams and with a good experience with external Research and PR agencies. Interaction with academia and professional groups is a plus.
• Strong external orientation \xe2\x80\x93 competitive landscape, trends, consumers, and habits, understanding of regulations and legal Boundaries within claims/communications
• Experience in demo / selling stories creation \xe2\x80\x93 professional communication experience is a plus
• Working knowledge of statistical tools and complex data analysis.
• Digital Savviness and data driven approach
• Experience in oral care products would be an added advantage.

• Scientific curiosity & creativity
• Adaptable to rapid changes & agility
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills both internal and external
• Ability to see the big picture with an eye for critical details