Assistant Brand Manager

You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As an Assistant Brand Manager, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About The Job As Assistant Brand Manager for Eve, you will manage the marketing activities of your assigned brand, either with the support of a brand manager or with delegated accountability from the brand lead. Your projects can span the full range of marketing, from new product development and brand strategy through to advertising, the annual brand plan and its delivery. You will collaborate with, and at times lead, a cross functional brand team spanning research and development, regulatory, medical, trade and shopper marketing and finance, making sure your activities meet the brand strategy and deliver both the annual budget and the mid to long term plan.

Main Responsibilities

• Own assigned brand projects, from the mid to long term vision, goals and strategy through to the annual sales and profit budget.
• Develop and manage brand marketing plans that grow the business, and drive sales results through a multi function team.
• Lead new product development end to end: product concepts, proposition and claims, scheduling, forecasting, internal approval, package design and the consumer research that sets project direction.
• Provide leadership within the brand team, working across brand and innovation marketing, shopper marketing and innovation planning.
• Lead and facilitate cross functional projects that improve operational efficiency and capability.
• Manage internal and external resources, including agencies, to deliver assigned brand projects.
• Track performance against the key business measures: sales, profit and loss, market sales and market share.

About You

• Experience: Project management and marketing management experience, including analysis, strategy and consumer communication planning.
• Skills: Leadership and team management, an agile and independent working style, and strong critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and communication, supported by a grasp of accounting and statistics basics.
• Education: Academic background, preferably in business administration, marketing, psychology, behavioral science, economics or a related field.
• Languages: Fluent Japanese and English, to work effectively in a business setting in Japan and with regional and global stakeholders.

This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. We are challengers. We are Opella. About Us Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.

Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.