Marketing Johannesburg Jobs

ABOUT UNILEVER Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, approximately 3.5bn households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future. Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you. ABOUT GLOBAL MARKETING SERVICES (GMS) Global Marketing Services (GMS) is a dynamic, collaborative team that partners with Unilever’s brand teams across the globe to deliver high-impact marketing services. Our mission is to drive speed, consistency, and operational excellence at scale, empowering brands to connect with consumers more effectively. GMS brings together deep expertise across several key domains: • Artwork Excellence: Our specialists lead the creation of mechanical artworks for both physical and digital packs, ensuring flawless execution and seamless collaboration • UARM (Unilever Artwork & Records Management): The custodians of Unilever’s corporate memory, UARM protects trademarks and records, offering brand teams historical insights and safeguarding intellectual property • Consumer Engagement Centres (CEC): These frontline teams engage directly with consumers across digital and traditional channels, responding to queries and feedback with empathy and precision • Innovation Project Management Office (PMO): A team of expert project managers accelerating innovation speed to market across Unilever’s Business Groups • Marketing Digital Solutions: Designers and architects of scalable marketing technology platforms, like The Asset Bank, which houses over 2 million assets • Product Data Management (PDM): Specialists in digitising and orchestrating pack-related data, enabling seamless integration across Unilever’s supply chain and marketing ecosystem JOB PURPOSE This role brings together technology powered expertise and solutions to the overall GMS ecosystem transforming how packaging artwork and digital pack assets are created, adapted, reviewed, delivered, stored and maintained across technology, processes and markets. The role must encompass and bring to life the strategy for automation within GMS across the ecosystem This successful candidate must have a good understanding of how general process flows work, as well as be familiar with current market trends/ landscape within the automation and AI ecosystem. WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE • Ownership and delivery - Identify key technology solutions in Market to design and run experiments/POCs to drive efficiency improvements in the e2e Artwork Process (2D + 3D) • Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to identify bottlenecks/ pain points and opportunities in the current and emerging Artwork Process to feed into the automation pipeline for both 2D and 3D (CGI) asset creation. • Data driven analytics within the Artwork Process (2D and 3D) to identify bottlenecks/ resource intensive tasks and opportunities for automation • Work with various vendors, IT business partners, Digital Asset Management teams to prototype valid automated and/or AI solutions to address bottlenecks/ resource intensive activities • Ensure solutions defined can be scaled globally • Build evaluation criteria and measure speed, cost, quality and compliance improvements • Document results, risks, and business value • Ensure compliance with Unilever Security policies when defining and embedding automation solutions. • Improve integration between external vendors, artwork tools, Digital Asset Management, Functional Source systems, Power BI etc, by defining requirements for API-driven system integration and orchestration • Hand over and training of BAU solution to identified stakeholders/vendors • Drive adoption of and change management for deployed solutions • Responsible for leading and meeting agreed timelines as per Project scope