B&W asst CMI Manager EU at Unilever

Job Purpose

• The European Beauty & Wellbeing team at Unilever is growing!
• The B&W team are proud to look after a fantastic portfolio of brands – including but not limited to the likes of Dove, TRESemmé, Simple, Vaseline, Sunsilk and Andrélon. These brands have experienced phenomenal growth. As a result, we’re wanting to bring on board an Assistant Consumer and Market Insight Manager to help us reach our potential.

This Is Your Chance To

• Have fun, working alongside people that share your passion for the beauty industry
• Bring clarity and inspiration to cross functional brand teams; people that already care deeply about our consumers & value your perspective
• Grow and refine your CMI skills, as you adopt our bespoke industry-leading tools and Unilever Best Practices
• Get exposure to a wide range of business opportunities across the Beauty categories that we play in; Hair Care, Skin Care, Hand and Body care

This role reports into the Beauty & Wellbeing CMI Lead for Europe, helping our cross-functional teams to grow our brands in key local markets.

Responsibilities

The Assistant CMI Role

Role
The consumer is at the heart of everything our cross functional teams do; you will be a critical part of our success! In this role, you will:

• Be a go-to advisor for many different stakeholders across Marketing, Category, Research and Development - helping them to turn insight into action
• Connect dots across a wide range of data sources (EPOS, Shopper Panel, Consumption, Brand Tracking, Social Listening etc.) to
• Monitor and evaluate the in-market performance of our brands, innovations and marketing relative to our strategic intent
• Guide us on what we could be doing differently/better
• And, help us spot new opportunities
• Be an architect of growth; building a bridge between human opportunities for growth (i.e. shopper, consumer) and the commercial opportunities for growth (i.e. market, channel, retailer, brand, product, price etc.).
• Key areas of focus for this role include:
• Leading Unmissable Brand Superiority - heling our brands wo win across all 6Ps to drive share
• Supporting Social First Transformation - creative & media effectiveness, social listening
• Guiding Market-Making innovation - incremental gains
• Tap into a wide range of support; cross functional teams, partner agencies, data/report automation, AI, freelancers etc.

All About You
Successful candidates in this role will likely

• Have relevant years of experience working in Consumer and Market Insight. This is a hands-on research role, so you will need to have experience diving into data, so agency side experience may be advantageous.
• You will need to have experience working with local market stakeholders, guiding them on in market execution
• Have a passion for Consumers, Culture and Data
• Have an insatiable appetite for all things Beauty . You’ll likely already be up to date on all the latest trends and cultural movements across Hair, Skin, Hand & Body (as well as broader agencies – fashion, make-up, etc.)
• You are a digital and dative native, with a passion for the digital world and it’s implication for Beauty. You want to work in a digital-first environment; consumer and shopper behaviour shifts become increasingly more online
• Have experience working with cross functional teams; helping them to refine their business questions to get to the ‘brief behind the brief’
• Be confident in connecting dots across a wide range of traditional & modern data sets to provide multi-source insights (EPOS, Shopper Panel, Consumption, Brand Tracking, Social Listening, Digital Analytics/e-Comm etc.)
• Enjoy learning about new research and analytical tools, vendors and approaches
• Have experience running projects independently from start to finish – ensuring you seek guidance where needed and bringing people with you
• Be strong story tellers; clear, engaging and succinct.
• Comfortable managing a wide range of senior stakeholders and juggling evolving priorities

You’re Not

• Afraid to fail fast and learn from the experience.
• Of fixed mindset. You are calm & confident in ambiguous contexts and willing to navigate change with flexibility and agility
• Wedded to linear and fixed brand /people partnering. You will flow to work where the growth is
• Someone who works in silos. You are a team player who is open-minded and collaborative.
• A brief taker. You will need to anticipate and define the agenda with your stakeholders – proactive not reactive.