Assistant Brand Manager

Assistant Brand Manager (20 month fixed term contract)
About The Role
Essity may be a company you are not familiar with, but you will know our market-leading consumer brands, including
TENA, Bodyform, Cushelle,
Velvet, Plenty

and
Tork
, as well as
Leukoplast, Actimove,

and
JOBST
within our medical portfolio. Our company mission is to break barriers and improve the well-being of people across the world through our health and hygiene products and solutions.

Essity UK Consumer Goods is looking for an
Assistant Brand Manager – Consumer Goods
to work on our leading brands
Bodyfrom
and
TENA
. The Assistant Brand manager will take responsibility for the day-to-day marketing activation, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives and KPI's to support ambitious brand growth.

This full-time,
20-month FTC
position is offered on a hybrid working pattern of up to two days per week working flexibly at home with 3 days office-based.

There are plenty of reasons to work at Essity:

• High reaching starting salary with annual review
• Pension 10% employer contribution
• Annual incentive bonus
• Holidays starting at 27 days plus bank holidays (with flexible bank holiday options)
• Staff product and discounts
• Essity Rewards (online and in-store shopping discounts) including; gym membership discount and many more
• EAP support service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Local community activities and charitable initiatives

What you will do

In this varied role you will be responsible for:.

• Support the SBM in the implementation of ATL and BTL regional marketing strategy and plans in line with global requirements.
• Deliver clear communication and building strong working relationships with internal customer teams, global teams, agencies & retailers.
• Provide necessary support to our multi-functional operational business team regarding strategy, product information and media activities.
• Manage and implement marketing activities, ATL to BTL, with a special focus on digital communication and social media.
• Daily management of external agencies (media, PR, digital), including writing briefs, creative development, agency management and reporting, with continuous evaluation based on set KPIs.

Strong focus on Digital Marketing:

• Daily management of social branded content and social content calendar.
• Ensure brand images and assets are optimised for use on retailer websites.
• Management of brand websites in conjunction with internal digital hub.
• Work with internal digital hub developing ratings and reviews.
• Work with internal DTC team to develop and manage annual social content calendars.
• Support SBM with project management of PR campaigns
• Responsible for assigned Advertising & Promotion budget, with monthly tracking & reconciling along with raising PO's.
• Monthly analysis and reporting of market & consumer data and business performance against KPI's.
• Management of product range development – new packaging, new pack formats, changes in legal requirements.
• Ownership of the artwork development process including supporting on copy, artwork generation and approvals
• Admin based responsibilities

Who You Are

• Experience working within a marketing team preferably within FMCG
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment
• Strong cross functional experience
• Demonstrated experience and success in project management
• Excellent oral and written communication, analytical, and presentation skills
• Excellent team player and ability to work cross-functionally
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to multi-task under pressure
• Confident in using Excel and PowerPoint
• Can do attitude

About Our DEI Culture
Guided by our Beliefs & Behaviour, our culture is the foundation that connects our history with our future. At Essity, care, collaboration and inclusion are more than buzzwords, they are practiced on an everyday basis. And with a purpose of breaking barriers to wellbeing, promoting gender equality and enable customers and consumers to lead a fuller life at all stages of life, DEI is in our core.

As we work in diverse teams across geographies, cultures and professional areas, inclusive leadership is something we expect from ourselves and each other. In our leadership platform, we express this as leveraging the power of differences. From experience we know that diverse and inclusive teams are key to innovate and profitably grow our business while simultaneously address our ambitious climate targets.

What we can offer you

At Essity, we believe everyone's learning and professional development is unique and want to empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

At Essity, we embrace the individual and recognise the remarkable power that can be harnessed when different ideas, backgrounds, experiences, and perspective come together.  If you apply for a job at Essity, you can be sure that the only criteria we consider for selection is professional experience, qualifications, key job-related attributes and working values.

What's next?
Essity kindly but firmly declines direct contact with recruiting and staffing agencies, as well as job advertising sellers.

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Application End Date:

30 Oct 2025

Job Requisition ID:

Essity257425