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 Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with 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” 

About Data & Analytics: (D&A)
D&A has a purpose to make Unilever Data Intelligent by powering key conclusions with data & advanced AI.

The vision of a Future-Fit Unilever is of an organisation powered by data throughout all aspects of the company’s operations and processes; leveraging data to vastly improve innovation and build stronger brands, drive excellence in execution with our customers, enhance the consumer experience through personalisation and deeper engagement, and transforming our internal operations to run more efficiently.

Our team of D&A specialists operate in every part of our business and we are looking to grow our capabilities with tomorrow's stars. A unique opportunity to work in a data and analytics role, with one of the strongest FMCG brands in the world, giving you the ability to link your work directly with business growth, and working on cutting edge technology in an innovative environment. Your role will have direct impact on Unilever’s purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace.

About Your Role: 
The Product Manager plays a key role within D&A, owning solution development and guiding the squad from high level proposal through to delivery. The Product Manager owns project budgets, timelines and designs and is the accountable person within the squad to the business. Product Managers retain ownership of their products once they are live, and act as a key conduit between the business teams & DevOps teams for ensuring products are appropriately supported and further developed where necessary.

This role will require a solid understanding of how D&A are driving business outcomes. Based on this understanding, the Product Manager will develop the product roadmap to meet the P&L of the product and to reduce time spent on and decision-making with the activation of Assisted and Predictive decision-making capabilities. 

Be the bridge between business users and the product development team to define and develop product features that meets the needs / opportunities of business users. 

Identify opportunities to apply diagnostic insights to data. Use recognized data & visualization techniques to make sense of data in a way that helps the markets to discover useful information to improve the overall business objectives and performance

Own the product SLA & OTIF post completion working in partnership with Solution Factory teams bridging the connect between Service Delivery & Business Managers.

Act on user feedback on product & derive constant enhancements to the product managing cost efficiencies & finding ways to deliver at low costs
Drive Business engagement with senior stakeholders engaging on the product road-map & benefit tracking

Own products developed in BAU ensuring desired levels of Adoption and User satisfaction (tracked through Users, Usage and NPS). Work with the business for requests to be appropriately managed, budgeted and delivered
Work with the Global D&A Platform team to ensure edge to edge user journeys and best in class User experience 

About You:

The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded commercial and analytics professional. They will have a solid knowledge of operations and the value chain in a consumer goods company, that is complemented by application of data management, data strategy or business information intelligence, and emerging technologies required to deliver a world class data service. They will have proven commercial judgment and most importantly, the ideal candidate will enjoy rolling their sleeves up to work towards outcomes.

Beneficial Areas of Expertise:

D&A including experience working with Finance/Marketing/Customer Development data domains  

Knowledgeable of D&A project delivery

Ability to build partnerships with senior team members (e.g. Directors) on developing the data and insights strategy.

Ability to communicate complex and data science solutions in a precise, and actionable manner to senior management

A technical expertise to dissect D&A solutions

Experience building business cases and owning delivery of the projects/programs

Ability to work as a part of a cross-functional team and work in an agile manner without necessarily having a traditional team set-up

What We Offer:

Not only do we offer a competitive salary, but also our pension scheme, an annual bonus, a free gym, a staff shop and shares. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and agile environment. We strive to achieve a family-friendly culture and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

D&I Statement

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.

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