Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, 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. We are known for our great brands, a global footprint and our belief in doing business the right way

For Unilever to remain competitive in the future, we need to continue the path to become data intelligent. The purpose of the Data & Analytics team is to help Unilever become Data Intelligent and a clear analytical competitor- partnering with the business to power key decisions with data, insights, advanced analytics and AI.

Our ambition is to enable democratisation of data, information and insights as a completely agile organisation that builds fantastic careers for our people and is accountable for delivering great work that maximises impact and delivers growth.

About Data & Analytics (D&A)

The Data & Analytics function endeavours to create clear accountability for all aspects of Data Strategy, Data Management, Information Management, Analytics, and Insights. We are accountable for impact of solutions, maintaining market relevance and minimising unnecessary overlaps in analytics products, ensuring simplicity and that our solutions better meet the needs of our users.

We have four key operating principles:

• One team Connected to the business Deploying with pace and discipline Designing for experience
• Our vision is to make Unilever data intelligent, partnering with the business to power key decisions with data, advanced analytics and AI to accelerate growth.   Our 5 strategies to achieve this are:
• Accelerate & simplify access to relevant data, information and insights Build in-house, leading-edge data, information, insights & analytics capability Lead the data & insightsculture and careers to empower employees across Unilever Rapidly embed analytics products, solutions and services to drive growth Advance Information Automation at Scale

Role Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Global Integrated Customer / Shopper Data (i.e.Sales, Promotions, Retailer POS) Team as part of Data & Analytics, Data Centre of Excellence.  This role is tasked to deliver the data foundations needed to deliver maximum value from data to drive business and organisational performance. 

Areas of Focus

The role has three main areas of focus:

Define, execute and embed the data and analytics strategy, delivering the data platform foundations needed to fuel our analytical products and deliver the democratisation of our data across the whole organisation.  Defining and embedding a strong enterprise data governance and data quality programme within the Data Lake to properly govern our internal, 2nd and 3rd party data assets and to ensure we have end to end quality from source to product. Partnering with our functions and analytical products to consulting and innovate on data components of products within a function / country / cluster: establishing data as a product, data as an enabler, then data as a service (and maybe eventually data as a business).

The position will be a Senior Manager responsible for GlobalIntegrated Customer / Shopper partnering with functions and markets to deliver the functional design specification for the data platform .  You will work with the Data CoE Director to masterfully execute and collaborate with senior stakeholders to (i)drive cultural shift around data within the organisation; (ii) explore innovation opportunities around new data channels, new data feeds; (iii) identify interdependent activities and bias towards front-loading high impact work;

All About You

The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded commercial and analytics professional. They will have a good knowledge of operations and value chain in a consumer goods company, that is complemented by working knowledge of data management, data strategy or business information intelligence, and emerging technologies required to deliver a world class data service. Most importantly, the ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and ability to work with peers and demonstrate vertical and lateral influence and will enjoy rolling their sleeves up to drive towards outcomes.

Relevant Experience:

• Overall experience of 8-10+ years preferred
• Experience in driving business value realisation from data and business intelligence preferred
• Strong track record of working with senior business leadership (VPs+) to drive definition, alignment, data driven foundations to address complex business questions
• Proven competency in managing and developing teams
• Data Governance understanding preferred
• Azure experience preferred

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.

bDiversity 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