Business Partner Customer Market Insights (CMI) Beauty & Personal Care (m/f/d)

Job description

Unilever's portfolio includes iconic brands such as Dove, Magnum, AXE, Ben & Jerry's, PUKKA etc. and on any given day, over 2 billion people use our products around the world. Therefore we are looking for a

Business Partner Customer Market Insights (CMI) Beauty & Personal Care (m/f/d)

The Consumer & Market Insights team is currently looking for a motivated and driven CMI Manager to lead the Beauty and Personal Care (BPC) Insight agenda across the DACH region . The CMI function's mission is to inspire, provoke and drive transformation action/growth. In this role you will contribute to delivering the CMI mission by being the CMI business partner to the Local DACH Marketing team lead for BPC.

Purpose of the job:
You will be a key business partner within the local BPC leadership team, with the remit to use insight to drive the strategic direction and decisions in the category. You will be responsible for the identifying the consumer needs, insights and behaviors to guide the local marketing category strategy. You will also be responsible for understanding and driving action through category & brand performance, and insight to drive communication and innovation projects

Key accountabilities:

· Offer foresight rather than just insight, by proactively identifying consumer and market trends, and using these to shape the strategy moving forward
· Be independent and deliver fact based, objective views of the business, providing inspirational and credible recommendations to business partners
· Support the DACH Beauty and Personal Care leadership team by creating and driving the annual CMI workplan
· Responsibility for delivering insight that shapes and enables delivery of the country/cluster innovation & growth agenda, working across DACH markets
· Lead consumer guidance for 20/10 locally led innovation projects
· Create partnerships and collaborate with a wide spectrum of local business teams, agencies, CMI expertise teams to deliver against business needs
· Identify & land country & channel trends, de-averaging opportunities and pricing & promotional insights for the markets
· Support the insight Agenda with CD with regard to BPC questions, where appropriate partnering with CMI specialist functions
· Provide insight to drive and evaluate our media plans
· Represent the voice of the consumer within the BPC brand teams through driving a strong local consumer connect programme
· Leverage agency relationship with key research partners across DACH ensuring that we are driving strong insights and maximising ROI

Professional skills & key competencies:

· University degree in business sciences specialized in marketing, distributive trade or equal
· Ideally several of work experiences in consumer market insights in a branded goods company, preferably in FMCG
· You are expected to be fully operational in the higher order business partnering skills, particularly on showing the business How and Where to Win, and bringing integrated consumer and shopper insights into the business,
· You should also have a depth of experience on understanding market research fundamentals and mastering market research techniques
· You should have strong leadership skills
· You are expected to have broad CMI experience (brand development and brand building) and depth across people leadership, business partnering, understanding core business processes and business acumen
· A strong team player and ‘Can Do' mentality is key to success in this role. There will be a requirement to sometimes work outside of the Beauty and Personal Care Category and collaborate on cross category projects
· Openness to new techniques and Digital capabilities: As we are in the digital era, openness to new methods and techniques, the spirit of experimentation, learning new skills
· Fluent in German and English

What we have to offer:

· Competitive base salary & annual bonus
· Holiday pay and Christmas bonus
· Company pension scheme
· Agile working Environment
· Company pension scheme
· A good working atmosphere with a great team
· A work result to touch - our great products!

Interested in this position?
Then you should not wait to apply online (Email applications won't be accepted). Should you require additional information, please contact your Talent Advisor Sarah Chwalek by email (HR.DACH@unilever.com). I am really looking forward to your application and will contact you soon with a first feedback.