Associate Director, Asset Creation NA

About the role

Join us as Associate Director Asset Creation NA. This role provides an exciting opportunity to drive brand equity and sales growth for a priority region, North America (NA). In partnership with our marketing colleagues and key strategic partners, this leader will also enable leading-edge global marketing strategy, innovation goals, and business results.

Responsibilities

• Connect Unilever Marketing business needs and Marketing Procurement objectives to craft sourcing strategies across the value chain, driving alignment with global frameworks.
• Implement global strategy for Asset Creation in North America, ensuring the NA agenda and regional nuances are championed and enabled.
• Lead NA sourcing team for creative development, production, and adaptation across NA brands, ensuring quality and speed-to-market.
• Shape future-flexible supplier models and ecosystems for social-first marketing in line with marketing transformation.
• Negotiate and manage MSAs and SOWs with creative agencies, production houses, and adaptation partners, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
• Deliver value creation and reinvestment opportunities while maintaining creative excellence and operational agility.
• Partner with Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Digital teams to enable seamless campaign execution and governance.
• Uphold procurement standards, manage IR35 and tax compliance risks in freelance engagements, and ensure transparency.
• Ensure portfolio fundamentals (data consistency, contract governance, performance dashboards) to enable rapid decision-making.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in procurement with deep expertise in Marketing Services.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of supply markets, FMCG, and marketing value chains.
• Proven leadership in large-scale projects and change management.
• Passion for sustainability and continuous improvement.
• High financial acumen, communication, and project management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a complex global environment.
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and leading through change.
• Able to interact with senior stakeholders cross-functionally to deliver balanced solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including effective presentations.

Priorities

• Inspiring, motivational, and accountable people leader, able to lead remote and cross-cultural teams and connect people and ideas.
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and leading through change.
• Able to create and drive adoption and execution of a shared vision and strategy for change.
• Able to interact with senior stakeholders effectively and efficiently to understand their needs and deliver impactful, balanced solutions.
• Delivers change whilst understanding the interface between "day to day" and improvement projects.
• Passion for continuous improvement
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including creation and delivery of effective presentations.
• Skillful in selling ideas and concepts; especially influencing business stakeholders on change management.
• Strong in project and time management for complex global projects
• Passion and practical creativity
• Tenacious and resilient in the pursuit of challenging goals

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $146,200 to $219,400. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

This position is bonus eligible and LTI eligible. Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.