The Business Intelligence Solutions Director for Beauty & Wellbeing (B&W) is a dynamic strategic & operational role across all brands and markets, leading consumer & market data led business intelligence and advanced analytics with AI built-in across our Business Group. Driving integrated business & marketing strategy, execution, performance, growth & AI transformation, for both the business and function. Driving accelerated growth & competitiveness now & future, with strategic perspective and business acumen. This is a high impact high visibility role, with particular skill & leadership competencies, leading from the frontline through collaboration & influence cross functional in a matrixed organisation. It is also pivotal role in reshaping the future of marketing, research and innovation at scale for the Business Group, with savvy objectivity, business acumen & expert rigour.
RESPONSIBILITIESDrive development, application and adoption of AI led advanced analytics solutions with consumer and market data relevance for Beauty & Wellbeing sector, from enterprise strategy, portfolio of brands, innovations and markets, through to 'store shelf' end to end.
Lead the embedding of consumer, market, segments and channels led share gain, expandability and premiumisation strategies & execution; including growth forecasts, competitive intelligence business solutions, pricing vision and implementation of relevant KPIs, tools and governance.
Lead the assimilation, implication and communication of external macro economic drivers, foresight forecasts and scenario planning into business & marketing strategic choices and execution pivots market, both short and long term.
Build competitive advantage simple data systems blended externally and internally for data analytics driven media spend leverage and execution, both with media landscapes insights, foresight, investment levels and ROIs at various layers.
Work with senior leadership and project teams to commercialise the upstream brand, innovation, channel and market development.
Act as the internal expert and impartial consultant with insight and business acumen to senior leadership, providing expert advice on strategic and business questions with high agility, simplicity and speed.
Partner and lead across CMO, CFO, President, Strategy Leads, Category & Market CMI Leads, Brand VPs, and Country CMI Leads for seamless consumer and market analytics systems, outputs and one version clarity in decision-making cross forums.
Develop a growing B&W capability in enterprise program management for Innovation and M&A cultivation in both organic and inorganic growth, with underlying consumer potential velocity.
Define and lead reporting and analysis of strategically relevant performance metrics that deliver on both internal business and external consumer consistent choice winning in the marketplace.
Build and embed dynamic DIYs in light-to-no touch self serve immediacy across complex and disparate data structures & sources, leveraging Agentics, AI & partnerships.
Identify anticipatory and pre emptive issues and opportunities in activation to win in marketplace cross portfolio, tracking performance against defined JTBDs and strategic objectives.
Build, simplify and implement business winning and investment decisions short and long term into scaling brand desirability & choice, winning in channels of sales and communication media cross touchpoints, assortments & platforms.
Sustain an outside-in, future forward consistency within in-year performance and roadmap to transformance, making business savvy recommendations for corrective actions and growth unlocks based on data-driven insights.
Oversee business forecasting, P&L management, and target delivery by brand, business unit, and market-making activity.
Empower operations and senior leaderships at B&W enterprise level cross marketing, insights, finance, supply chain and CSP with a shift into real time always on one version insights & analytics to accelerate performance and anticipate demand, with supporting data driven literacy and simplification cross brand and market units.
Champion & discern innovation in ways of working for analyses, including data democratization, segmentations, build and adoption of GenAI-powered quick build solutions off Unilever mainframes, at scale.
Drive the transformation of marketing analytics into competitive edge Business Intelligence, introducing new methodologies and approaches as needed to data-driven decision-making.
Lead the creation and adoption of data ecosystems and scale AI+EI model & agents precisions steered by discerning human judgement & expertise. Applied in self serve DIY information democratization, productivity improvements & effectiveness multipliers.
Foster a culture of disciplined problem-solving, ruthless simplification & speed, prioritisation, and excellence in delivery.
Develop direct and non-reporting teams applied skills, talent and communication, including strategic partners.
London, UK - The role will be based at 100 Victoria Embankment ("100VE") until lease expiry 2027 or in Kingston upon Thames from early 2025, depending on future consultation outcomes.
WHAT WE OFFERCompetitive salary, pension scheme, annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, discounted staff shop and shares. Flexible hybrid working environment with support for wellbeing and inclusive workplace culture.
DIVERSITY AT UNILEVERDiversity 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self.