Global Market Insight Assistant Manager

ROLE TITLE:     Global Assistant Market Insight Manager

WORK LEVEL:    1C

About the Growth & Marketing Office (GMO)

The GMO are on a mission to reshape how we do marketing to build unmissably superior brands that are the source of Unilever's Growth Action Plan 2030. The GMO is divided into three key teams to enable our shifts - Integrated Brand Experiences, Growth Initiatives & Capabilities and Consumer Market Insights. We have evolved as an area and are now ready to build on last year's foundation, focusing on our new marketing model, Culture that Converts. We are laser-focused on our three marketing transformation priorities: Elevating the Brand Experience, Social First Demand Generation, and Market Making Innovation. 

The Role:

This role is a unique role with a very wide range of business partners. Our primary partners are the Global Performance Management team, Business Group and Business Unit CMI teams, and the D&A team based in India and UK.

There are 2 key purposes of the Global Market Insight team:

The first is to provide one version of the truth. Our key focus is to ensure that we have the right data and insight available to run the business and report on our competitive performance. This includes the responsibility for our global market share databases and our key global metrics covering topics such as Premiumisation, Distribution, Brand Power, Penetration, Category Growth and Channel performance. To do this we partner very closely with the D&A team to ensure our systems and data are accurate, that they are refreshed in full and on time, so that users are able to have their fingers on the pulse when it comes to data.  

The second is to provide cross BG Insights to drive business performance and growth.  Our role is to look for the insights that span across the business groups. This ranges from drivers of Unilever business performance, to understanding key topics such as drivers of category growth or spotting cross country and cross category trends in consumer purchasing.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the team to :

• Ensure that we have one version of the truth to manage business performance. Including Market Shares, Distribution, Penetration, Brand Health Tracking, Channel Performance etc…

• Manage ad-hoc data and insight requests

• Democratise data - work with D&A to build new, or refresh Dashboards and make new metrics available as required

• Understand key drivers of Unilever business performance

• Work with D&A to drive governance on data quality and bring new tools and capabilities to the business

• Drive Best Practice in Global agency relationships

• Identify cross BG and cross country insights to drive growth

Key Interfaces :

BG and BU CMI Teams

D&A team

Nielsen and Kantar Agency Partners

Global Performance Management Team

Global Strategy Team

GMO Team

Investor Relations Team

All About You:

You have a real passion for Market Insight and have leading edge knowledge of Retail data, Consumer Panel data and Brand Health Tracking. You understand or can quickly learn how our Global systems ( eg. GMI) work You will have prior experience of working in a market insight role. You have experience of working with and analysing multiple data sets to drive insights You have high attention to detail and can spot trends, opportunities and data patterns quickly. You are never happy with the Status Quo are always looking for ways to make things better. You have a strong drive to turn discussion into action. You work well under pressure with tight deadlines You are collaborative and enjoy working with a wide range of business partners. You are curious and are always looking for the ‘next big insight’.

Behaviours:

• Stay 3 steps ahead: You are bold and creative in your thinking to make breakthroughs in performance. Anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends, shifting from reacting to leading, shaping, and disrupting the market.

• Deliver with Excellence: The emphasis is on delivering everything with excellence and pace, taking personal ownership, and holding each other accountable. We aim to shift from pride in thinking to pride in execution, developing breakthrough solutions

• Focus on what counts:  We prioritize what truly matters, setting clear and stretching goals. We aim to shift from having everything as a priority to focusing on fewer, bigger things that are delivered to conclusion and are being rewarded.

Key Skills Required:

• Proven experience in market insight. This could be agency side or Client side.

• You have a good knowledge of continuous data sources, including consumer panel, retail audit. Knowledge of brand health data would be an advantage.

• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

• Strong ability to deliver on-time, in full to high standard.

• Strong networking ability and strong cross – functional team working.

• You are a strong team player and enjoy working as part of physical and virtual teams.

• Rigorous and with great attention to detail

• Highly numerate and adept at working with data.

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’  

Location 

In September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston, Unilever House in Leatherhead and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, free gym, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all. 

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unileveropens in a new window.

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