Unilever Jobs – 30 June 2026

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Demand Operations Lead (DOL)- Nutrition

Function: Supply Chain

Reports to: Sales & Operations Planning Lead

Scope: Southern Africa

Location:  La Lucia

Terms & Conditions: Full time

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. 

The DOL supports the execution of the demand planning agenda by delivering accurate short- and long-term forecasts, coordinating promotional planning, and ensuring alignment across key stakeholders. The role focuses on translating data, insights, and commercial inputs into actionable demand plans, while continuously improving forecast accuracy, reducing bias, and closing performance gaps.

This role works closely with cross-functional teams to drive forecast execution, support promotional effectiveness, and leverage planning tools and systems to ensure reliable demand signals that enable strong business performance.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Long-Term Forecast Planning

• Develop and maintain full-year demand forecasts using sales trends, macroeconomic insights, promotional plans, and innovation pipelines.
• Leverage AI-enabled forecasting tools to generate baseline and promotional forecasts that support business planning.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather inputs, align assumptions, and build robust demand plans.

Short-Term Forecast Execution

• Own the quarterly demand forecast, ensuring delivery against value and volume targets.
• Drive continuous improvements in forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias.
• Identify performance gaps and develop actions to mitigate risks and deliver business targets.

Promotional Planning & Performance

• Collaborate with Customer and Planning teams to develop and execute promotional forecasts.
• Evaluate promotional performance and ROI, identifying opportunities to optimize investment and improve business outcomes.
• Provide data-driven insights to support commercial decision-making and demand generation strategies.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• 3-5 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.
• Understand S&OP process & cadence
• Experience in managing external parties.
• Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.
• FMCG experience
• Strong capability in using AI-enabled planning/forecasting tools and data-driven systems
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business decisions

Skills

• AI-Enabled Planning & Analytics
• Stakeholder Management
• Commercial Acumen
• S&OP Process Knowledge
• Problem Solving & Decision Making
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Digital & Continuous Improvement Mindset

Leadership
You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way. As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Unilever behaviours
CARE DEEPLY: We care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development and our impact on the planet. We care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win. It is not just about being nice or avoiding honest conversations about performance and opportunity.

FOCUS ON WHAT COUNTS: We ruthlessly prioritize what really, really matters, allowing us to do better on fewer things. We set clear and stretching goals and recognize maximum performance impact. It is not about reducing ambition or effort or running after the ‘new and shiny’.

STAY THREE STEPS AHEAD: We think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident, anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends to beat the competition. It is not taking our eye off the ‘here and now’.

DELIVER WITH EXCELLENCE: We deliver everything we do with excellence and pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we’ve said we will do. It is not about analyzing the inevitable roadblocks, admiring the problem or tolerating mediocrity.

Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.  We are intentional in employing the best talent that reflects the demographics of our country and which will help build representation of currently under-represented groups. We therefore invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. When appointing potential candidates, the South African Employment Equity and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation will be considered.  

We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. If you are applying as a foreign national, please note that you may be requested to provide supporting documents supporting this. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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Digital Marketing Manager Cleanipedia

Unilever is currently hiring for a Digital Marketing Manager – Cleanipedia
Function: Marketing
Reports to:Home Care Southern Africa Marketing Lead
Location: La Lucia Ridge, Durban
Terms & Conditions: Full time, onsite

Are you ready to build Southern Africa’s largest cleaning platform? Do you want to change the game of #Cleantok? How would you like to make South Africa’s favourite cleaning brands famous on social media? Does collaborating with  hundreds of creators to deliver world-class creative communication sound like your thing? What about making brands like Omo, Comfort, Handy Andy, Sunlight, Domestos and Cleanipedia more famous?  Do you want to make cleaning fun, easy, desirable & shareable? Then this job is for you!
 We are on a mission to build the biggest cleantertainment platform in Africa & we need you as part of our team.

 Currently with 200k followers on Tiktok alone! We provide Unilever Homecare brands amplification through our easy cleaning info and hack with some of SA’s favourite cleanfluencers! 

IF YOU ARE READY TO CHANGE THE GAME OF CLEANTOK THEN THIS IS FOR YOU! 

This role blends strategic digital marketing leadership with experiential brand-building to create integrated campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty. The successful candidate will lead end-to-end digital programs across channels while also developing and executing immersive brand experiences, events, and activations that connect meaningfully with consumers and customers. The role also includes leading influencer and creator partnerships, ensuring that influencer activity is strategically aligned to brand goals, audience growth, engagement, and measurable business impact.
In addition, this role owns social media strategy and execution across priority platforms, including content planning, community engagement, paid social, social listening, performance optimization, and emerging practices such as Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Large Language Model (LLM) optimization to improve brand visibility across AI-powered discovery environments.

You’ll be part of a team on a mission to build the biggest “cleantainment” platform in Africa — making cleaning fun, easy, desirable and shareable.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Marketing Strategy & Campaign Execution

• Develop and execute integrated marketing strategies across digital channels, social media, paid media, SEO/SEM, web platforms, and experiential activations.
• Lead end-to-end campaign planning from insight and concept development through to execution, optimization and post-campaign analysis.
• Use consumer, customer and market insights to shape marketing plans and improve campaign effectiveness across digital, experiential, influencer and social media activity.

Social Media Strategy & Content Leadership

• Own the social media strategy across priority platforms, ensuring channel plans are aligned to business goals, audience needs and brand priorities.
• Develop and manage social media content calendars, including editorial planning, publishing schedules and platform-specific content requirements.
• Lead the creation, briefing, review and optimization of social content formats including static, video, short-form, live and community-led content.
• Manage agency partners responsible for day-to-day publishing and community engagement, including responses to comments, messages, mentions and relevant online conversations.

Influencer, Creator & Community Engagement

• Develop and implement influencer and creator strategies to expand reach, strengthen credibility and drive engagement with target audiences.
• Identify and build relationships with influencers, creators and brand advocates aligned to brand values, audience priorities and campaign objectives.
• Oversee influencer briefs, content approvals, timelines, contracts, usage rights and compensation to ensure quality, compliance and on-time delivery.
• Collaborate with creators and cleanfluencers to deliver engaging, culturally relevant and shareable cleaning content.

Performance, Insights & Digital Optimization

• Track, analyze and report on campaign, influencer, event and social media performance using relevant KPIs such as reach, engagement, community growth, leads, conversion, ROI, earned media value, sentiment and brand impact.
• Conduct social listening and monitor brand sentiment, competitor activity, culture trends and emerging conversations to identify risks and opportunities.
• Plan, execute and optimize paid social campaigns to grow reach, engagement, traffic and conversion in line with campaign objectives.
• Develop content and channel strategies that improve discoverability across AI-powered search and answer engines using Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Large Language Model (LLM) optimization principles.

Experiential Marketing & Brand Activation

• Oversee experiential marketing programs, including events, activations, partnerships, trade engagements and consumer experiences that strengthen brand equity and engagement.
• Ensure consistent brand messaging and a seamless consumer journey across physical and digital touchpoints.
• Identify new technologies, platforms, creators, social trends and experience formats to keep the brand competitive and culturally relevant.

Stakeholder, Agency & Budget Management

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including brand, sales, shopper marketing, PR, creative, media, legal and external agency partners.
• Establish and maintain social media governance, including brand tone of voice, approval processes, platform best practices and escalation protocols for sensitive issues or reputation risks.
• Oversee budgets, timelines, vendors, platform partners and agency relationships to ensure campaigns and experiences are delivered on time and within budget.
• Lead and mentor team members where applicable, providing clear direction, prioritization and performance support.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
• Proven 7+ years experience in digital marketing, social media marketing, brand marketing, experiential marketing, influencer marketing, event marketing, or integrated campaign management.
• Strong understanding of digital channels, social platforms, platform-specific content behaviour, analytics, content ecosystems and marketing technologies.
• Experience developing social media strategies, managing content calendars and leading day-to-day platform execution.
• Experience with community management, paid social campaign delivery, social listening tools and performance reporting.
• Familiarity with optimizing content for AI-powered discovery, including GEO, LLM-friendly content structuring, answer-engine visibility and emerging search behaviours.
• Experience planning and executing brand activations, events, influencer programs, or immersive consumer experiences.
• Demonstrated experience managing creator or influencer relationships, negotiations, contracts and campaign delivery.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect marketing activity to business results.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, agencies and budgets simultaneously.
• Experience presenting plans, performance and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to convert data into actionable insights.
• Creative problem-solving ability and adaptability to changing social, digital and consumer trends.

Why Join Unilever?
• Work for one of the world’s most purpose-led and trusted brands.
• Drive meaningful impact on business capability and performance.
• Be part of a supportive, culture driven environment that values people and growth.
• Enjoy opportunities for regional exposure and professional development.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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