Global Strategy Analyst – Beauty & Wellbeing at Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

The Global B&W Strategy & Operations team partners closely with the Global B&W leadership team to drive outstanding multi-year performance. The team’s remit spans three pillars: Deliver (operations and innovation), Plan (business planning), and Shape (define multi-year strategy).

This Business Analyst role supports the Senior Global Strategy Manager and Director predominantly in the Shape pillar — turning data and insight into powerful strategic recommendations on portfolio, geography, channel and operating models. You will play a central role in running analyses, building opportunity-sizing, and helping to craft executive-ready presentations that influence decisions at the highest level.

You’ll gain exposure to global strategic projects shaping the future of Unilever’s Beauty & Wellbeing portfolio, as well as the opportunity work directly with senior stakeholders, including the Strategy Director and CMO. The role offers hands-on experience across data, strategy and communication in one of the world’s most dynamic categories.

This Strategy Analyst role supports the Senior Global Strategy Manager in the Shape pillar — turning data and insight into powerful strategic recommendations on portfolio, geography, channel and operating models. You will play a central role in running analyses, building opportunity-sizing, and helping to craft executive-ready presentations that influence decisions at the highest level.

You’ll gain exposure to global strategic projects shaping the future of Unilever’s Beauty & Wellbeing portfolio, as well as the opportunity work directly with senior stakeholders, including the Strategy Director and CMO. The role offers hands-on experience across data, strategy and communication in one of the world’s most dynamic categories.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Market and consumer data analysis and insight generation

• Partner with Consumer & Market Insights (CMI), Brand and Market teams to analyse and interpret consumer, market and competitor data
• Lead quantitative analysis to support portfolio, channel and category strategy, including market sizing, trend forecasting, pricing and share modelling
• Build and run models across market share, penetration, pricing, distribution and promotional effectiveness, leveraging both external sources (e.g. Euromonitor) and Unilever proprietary data
• Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights, ensuring analytical rigour, consistency and version control across workstreams
• Present your findings in clear, visually appealing charts and PowerPoint slides, with concise executive narratives

Financial and opportunity sizing

• Analyse large financial datasets, building models and assumptions to assess financial opportunities
• Support robust opportunity sizing through multiple triangulation approaches
• Collaborate with Finance to develop financial models and business cases, estimating revenue and cost implications

Support on broader goals of Strategy & Operations Team

• Support the Strategy & Operations team across key moments in the annual planning and strategy calendar
• Contribute to the preparation of major internal and external events, conferences, and leadership forums
• Support development of materials for strategy workshops, planning sessions and project gatekeeping reviews
• Demonstrate flexibility and a proactive, can-do approach across ad hoc priorities

ALL ABOUT YOU

• You will likely have experience in consumer/market insights or analytics, financial management or marketing. This would either be within an FMCG or a market research agency/consultancy
• You have a genuine curiosity about the beauty industry, consumers and market trends. Prior exposure to Beauty categories is a strong advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (data manipulation, modelling, scenario analysis) and strong capability in PowerPoint (storytelling and presentation design).
• Analytical and detail-oriented, with strong numeracy and logical problem-solving skills
• Flexible and agile – able to react quickly to shifting priorities, handle ambiguity, take on feedback and work in an iterative manner with senior leaders
• A collaborative team player, able to build relationships across functions such as CMI, Finance, and Marketing.
• Able to communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent in written and spoken business English