Location: Hoboken, NJ Headquarters
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, collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. 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
It is an exciting time in personal care, with new trends, benefits, and formats reshaping routines, habits, and attitudes surrounding personal hygiene. Personal Care products help people look, smell and feel better every day, and are a critical part of their everyday life that they would never compromise.
But driving growth for the US business is becoming more challenging and competitive. Unilever is the category leader in Deodorants, and our role is to continue to address what the market and consumers need and desire for today and for tomorrow – leading the entire category’s growth and trends with our world-class brands like Dove, Dove Men+Care, Degree and Axe.
We’re looking for an analytical, strategic research and insight expert who loves hunting for key facts and insights from a wide range of resources, connecting the dots, and turning them into powerful perspectives and recommendations. These will help us solve business questions and issues (i.e., driving sales/share, understanding consumer segments, retailers, pricing, trends), and guide business decision-making.
This role is a part of Marketing team, and will work across the Deodorants portfolio, doing category-wide, brand agnostic work, as well as focusing on short term innovation and engagement for Dove, Dove Men+Care, and Shea Moisture.
You will interact with a large number of different business partners (cross-brands, cross-functional, local-global, internal and external) in a fast-paced, dynamic, inclusive and fun team culture. So, you’ll be exposed to, learn from, and contribute to a breadth and a depth of marketing and research aspects while working in this role.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
- Have passion to bring in facts, data and consumers as the center of everything we do
- Fluent in numbers, and good at pulling key insights and implications (“so what”) from the data in a clear, constructive manner - not data dump.
- Run custom qualitative/quantitative research with or without research agency partners; desk research/analysis by using available sources.
- Interact with a large number of different business partners with different needs and questions -- Marketing team primarily, but also with cross-functional/organizational teams (i.e., Retailer/Sales, local and global teams, R&D, external research/data agencies)
- Willing to learn and quickly get familiar with a wide range of business needs and questions. Learn to clearly understand each of them (big or small, structured or random), and then address them with your actionable recommendations/point-of-view. Key areas: in-market business. performance (sales, share, distribution, penetration, etc), pricing, consumer segments like Gen Z, shopper/channel insights, shelf strategy and executions (planograms), e-commerce, brand communication and brand health, innovations, trends.
- Monitor in-market business performance of existing products and innovations from our brands and competitive brands for actions that our brands should take.
- Leverage partnership with data agencies and their analysis. Lead data quality governance with them.
- Master our performance/consumer research and insight tools and methods, and help to upskill business partners.
- Manage social listening tools and conduct searches, keep a pulse on trends, and deliver insights related to growing spaces.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree required. Advanced degree in Marketing, Marketing Research, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics or Business is welcomed.
- Demonstrated high performance, 3-5+ years of relevant experience (such as data analytics, research, consulting, retail, or marketing). CPG experience is preferred.
- Experience in in-market performance data analytics (sales, purchase/usage panel, pricing, distribution, etc.) is a must – both scanning and panel data sources. Experience in brand equity/health area, custom quantitative and qualitative research in addition is preferred.
- Strong inter-personal communication skills to work effectively in a high-speed, dynamic work environment with a large number of different business partners and stakeholders. Comfortable speaking up to land your perspectives.
- Demonstrate ability to think through problems and provide clear logic and points-of-view in a simple way, not just sharing data/facts/research outcomes.
- Strong Project Management skills in prioritizing projects and multi-tasks.
Build organizational awareness, prioritization skill, and clear understanding of the context/brief are key for successfully managing a high volume of different business needs. - Curious. Go beyond “do what was asked for” to “proactively look for solutions and opportunities”. You will be a critical part of the business team, not an order-taker or internal supplier.
- Ability to use a wide range of sources and your strategic filtering to identify what’s important, and then turn them into clear implications and recommendations for the business.
- Have a positive and can-do attitude even when facing challenging situations, and have fun!
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.
- Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
- PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
- PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
- CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
- PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
- AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.
Pay: The pay range for this position is $86,080 to $129,120. 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.
Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.
Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. Benefits: 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.
What We Can Offer You
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What We Do
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.
Our portfolio ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products. We produce world-leading brands including Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Dermalogica.
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.
