Senior Manager CMI Performance, Deos & Strategy

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.

Consumer & Market Insights

CMI mission is to provide inspiration and provocation to drive transformational growth. This means delivering insights, ideas and impact – and in a world that is changing at an accelerating pace of change. This pushes us to evolve how we innovate for and engage with our consumers and be a future fit insights team.

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. 

If you are passionate about data driven decision making, and if you believe Insights functions’ can drive growth through desriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics - then this role is just for you.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

This is a Leadership CMI role in North America Personal Care on driving Performance through Market Insights & Analytics.

This role has dual scope leading: (a) Performance & Category Strategy Insights on USA Deos; and (b) PC Canada Insights & Analytics.

As the Insights lead on Deos Performance and Category Strategy, you will be working closely with the Head of USA Deos Category Planning and Performance, and CMI Head of Deos NA. You get to work on our amazing brands: Dove, Dove Men+Care, Degree, Axe.

In this capacity, your key deliverables (and not limited to) will be:

Supporting Category & Unilever’s Customer-level Growth through thought leadership, category value drivers, market analysis etc. Market Share Forecasting & Predictive Insights/ Analytics to deliver our MS objectives. Customer-level Insights/ Analytics that drive Unilever’s growth faster than the category AND Lead category growth. Grow our Share in DCom through powerful insights and actions. Accelerate our Innovation incrementality through Innovation tracking and early insights. Be a champion of making 6Ps operational for Brands’ Superiority.

As the PC Canada Insights leader, you will be working closely with PC NA Chief Insights Officer and Head of Canada PC BU:

Coaching/ guiding the Associate PC CMI Manager (Performance) Canada; Associate PC CMI Manager will continue to partner with the Head of Canada PC BU. Drive Canada PC growth and market share.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Demonstrated high performance and leadership, 5-7+ years of relevant experience (such as consumer/market research, analytics, consulting, customer development, CPG or marketing).
• Skilled in- Market Insights, Pricing Analytics, Descriptive & Predictive Analytics, Shopping, Channel and Customer Insights
• Good understanding of retail & channel landscape in the market and region
• Experience in running qualitative, quantitative research and/or data analysis of POS, scanning and consumer panel data
• Familiarity with or willingness to learn advanced data analytics (like pricing, marketing mix), brand communication and shopper/retailer business insights
• Demonstrate ability to understand the key problems/issues, think critically through problems, and provide clear logic and points-of-view. Not afraid of sharing POV even if it’s different from key stakeholder’s. 
• Ability to collaborate seamless & lead across agency partners and internal Unilever teams will be crucial
• Ability to coach and guide less experienced CMI colleagues
• Undergraduate degree required.  Advanced degree in Marketing, Marketing Research, Analytics, Economics or Business welcomed.
   

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.
• Proactively look for business opportunities, and use a wide range of sources/resources and your strategic thinking to come to clear, actionable insights and POV for the business
  Key areas include: consumer/category understanding, in-market performance, pricing, shopper/channel insights, dComm, brand innovation/communication (strategy, contents, target audience), trends
• Business partnering & influencing with Marketing, CS&P, Customer Development and Insights Agencies, etc. (both internal and external) in order to play as a critical part of the team to make greater impact.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $113,400 to $170,200. 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.

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