Senior Manager Consumer & Market Insights - Performance, Deos & Strategy

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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 disruptive 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 MenCare Degree Axe.

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

Supporting Category & Unilevers Customerlevel Growth through thought leadership category value drivers market analysis etc. Market Share Forecasting & Predictive Insights/ Analytics to deliver our MS objectives. Customerlevel Insights/ Analytics that drive Unilevers 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 57 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 pointsofview. Not afraid of sharing POV even if its different from key stakeholders.
• 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 inmarket 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 $113400 to $170200. 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.

LongTerm 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.

Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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