The Company:

We are a key player in Australia's consumer healthcare - the company behind some of the most trusted names in the country's medicine cabinets. Backed by a global parent, we operate with the pace and autonomy of a lean local business, and our portfolio is genuinely category-leading, with deep consumer trust and robust healthcare-professional endorsement across pharmacy and grocery. After years of consistent growth, we're now at an inflection point - reshaping how we market to reconnect our brands with a younger, more digitally-engaged consumer, and building new capability around content, social and the smart use of AI.

The Role:

This newly created Assistant Brand Manager role gives you day-to-day ownership of a market-leading brand within our portfolio - not in a few years' time, but from day one. Reporting to a senior Marketing Manager, you'll be the key point of contact for the brand and hands-on with every element of its strategy and execution, while also supporting a Brand Manager in a fast-growing category elsewhere in the portfolio.

Key responsibilities include:

- Own the brand's P&L; day to day, including budget planning, reconciliation and portfolio forecasting
- Help build the long-term brand and innovation strategy, using fresh consumer research to move communication beyond a purely functional, seasonal message
- Project manage NPD initiatives in partnership with the Innovation team
- Lead market analysis and category insights, using retail scan data to identify growth opportunities
- Develop social and content strategies that build brand engagement and trust




- Support a second Brand Manager on a new brand launch, and gain exposure to the healthcare-professional channel

What You'll Bring:

- Around 2+ years' experience in an Assistant Brand Manager or Marketing Assistant role, ideally in a fast-paced, progressive consumer business (FMCG, beauty, skincare, or health and wellness). A different category is genuinely welcome - fresh thinking is part of the brief
- A strong all-round marketing foundation: the analytical skills to manage a P&L;, budget and forecast; the strategic potential to build a brand and innovation plan; and the creative instinct to shape communication
- Comfort with numbers - managing an A&P; budget, reconciliations and portfolio forecasting
- Ideally some exposure to retail scan data (IQVIA, NielsenIQ, Circana or similar) - not essential, but it will get the right person up to speed faster
- Comfort working across pharmacy and grocery channels is a plus
- Above all, attitude and fit - passion, work ethic and the drive to run at a fast-changing business, and make it your own

Why Join?

This role puts a real brand, a real budget and genuine ownership in your hands early - the chance to put a three-year brand plan in front of the executive team and run with it. You'll be mentored directly by a Marketing Manager who is genuinely invested in developing marketers through hands-on coaching, real exposure to every part of brand management, and the smart use of AI. Add a clear progression runway - Brand Manager, Senior Brand Manager, Marketing Manager - and this is a genuinely smart move for a marketer ready to make their mark.

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