UNILEVER IS LOOKING FOR ICE CREAM CMI PDC INSIGHTS ANALYST

• Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• 100% full time employee

• Local conditions apply

• Salary: 44K-64K (excluding 6% bonus) salary is depending on experience

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is one of the world`s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) businesses, with interest across Personal Care, Homecare, Refreshment and Foods product categories. We reach 2 billion consumers a day. It has 161,000 employees. We make products that people love – and that make a difference. Nutritious foods. Household care essentials. Indulgent ice creams. Refreshing teas. Luxurious shampoos. Affordable, disease-combating soaps... and many more. In fact, we make around 400 much-loved brands including global brands such as Knorr & Dove, but also local brand such as Calvé (the Netherlands) and Suave (the Americas) and of course our products of the Vegetarian Butcher. Shoppers buy them in more than 190 countries. That means you’ll find at least one of our products in seven out of ten households on the planet. And we want every one of those products to make a positive impact on the lives of the people who buy them.

• We want our business to flourish, and we know that our success depends on others flourishing around us. That's why our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and why sustainable, long-term growth is at the heart of our business model.

• A job at Unilever is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity. You can shape your own path as you work with the brands and people that drive our sustainable business growth.

JOB PURPOSE

The PDC Insights Analyst will be part of the Global Ice Cream CMI PDC (People Data Center) team, and will be responsible for analysing a wide range of data to help inform marketing, brand, channel and business strategies. They will ensure that internal briefs are translated into analytical projects and will be responsible for ensuring the analysis is relevant for their specific category or market. They will be comfortable using a wide range of analytical tools to help with their analysis, and be familiar with both digital data such as social and search right through to traditional business data such as penetration and brand equity. The individual will be responsible for providing quantitative and qualitative analysis and insight on PDC projects, whilst working alongside specialist external analysts where required. As such they need to be comfortable working on their own analytics projects and also be able to work with specialist experts on larger, more complex briefs.

WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Translate internal briefs into analytical projects (to include refining the initial brief and asking the ‘right questions’, working through potential hypotheses and storyboarding the output)

• Conduct analysis using in-house analytics tools, and be comfortable analyzing a range of social and business data

• Building and testing basic queries on in-house social and search data tools

• Building and maintaining dashboards for internal customers using internal visualization tools

• Provide qualitative and quantitative analysis and insight to inform business strategy, marketing and channel strategies, digital marketing content and brand strategy, communications and new product development

• Synthesizing data and analysis into impactful, action-orientated reports for internal stakeholders

• Able to communicate the key findings and insight to senior stakeholders and peers both conversationally and in formal presentation style

• Monitor progress of deliverables and actively work with delivery analysts in other parts of the business or agencies who will not be co-located on complex briefs

• Maintain knowledge of previous analysis to avoid duplication and to share learnings from relevant past projects

• Arrange a follow-up meeting with customers after they have received their analysis to ensure that it has been helpful and document any scope for improvements to the service

• Secondary responsibilities:

  • Maintain a catalogue of previous requests/projects and own the central database of case studies / outputs

  • Proactively flags any workloads issues or problems to the PDC Insight Manager and identifies opportunities for new services based on demand

  • Updates workflow trackers

  • Uploads briefs & deliverables to PeopleWorld

INTERFACES

The role will have global BG scope and focus on Ice Cream category

• The job holder will report into IC CMI Channel, Performance and PDC Manager and work alongside other BG PDC and Performance Analysts

• The job holder will also have to work with other BU and Delivery Hub PDC Insights Analysts to share learnings and ensure that an equal quality of output is being achieved

• The job holder will not have any people management responsibilities but will commission work to agencies when required

• The job holder will have to ensure that briefs are completed by the analytical pool to the required standard and in a way that answers the original request

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE LOOK FOR

• Primary traits (required):

  • Experience in unearthing business questions and writing appropriate briefs

  • Experience in an analytical role and providing insights and recommendation based on analysis

  • Some experience of using analytical tools

  • Familiarity with “storytelling” in a corporate context, and crafting clear, compelling messaging

  • Passion for the digital world and its implications for business – An understanding of the social media landscape, search & website analytics, influencer marketing, etc. is highly desirable

• Secondary traits (‘nice to have’):

  • Experience with social analytics or NLP tools

  • Advanced excel skills or data modelling experience

  • Understanding of traditional performance data

  • Experience in briefing technical teams and being able to translate business objectives into analytical hypotheses

  • Project management skills, and being able to run multiple projects at the same time

  • Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams both internal (Marketing, CD, CMI), and external (agencies, consultancies, data providers)

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

Unilever is the place where you can be yourself and bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We offer an exciting & dynamic work environment where you can make things happen. Furthermore, we offer some great reward and benefits!

• Attractive total remuneration package: excellent company pension, bonus, share scheme.

• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever.

• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained.

• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks and our transgender policy.

• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products.

• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products.

• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription).

• Homework allowance

• Company laptop and mobile phone

• Green Mobility Policy.

EXCITED?

Join Unilever and our team! To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Please note this is a Direct Search led by Unilever. Applications from agencies will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against.

By highlighting the gender diversity at the workplace, Unilever encourages women equally men to apply. If you look for a job after a long career break or after any type of leave, do not hesitate to apply.

NOTES:

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