Unilever

We are looking for an Associate Director, CMI to join the UFS North America business based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA.

This role sits within the Global UFS Insights team and partners the North America business in its growth agenda. The mission of our team to generate insights to support, inspire, progress our operators and drive transformation action/growth. As the UFS Insights team we conduct market research studies with food service operators to understand their needs and translate those needs into actionable plans for our business. While our key focus is food service operators, we also conduct studies with consumers/diners to understand their expectations from operators. Therefore, an understanding of both operators and consumers is within the scope of this role.

We aim to accelerate digital transformation and growth in future fit categories by empowering future-fit marketeers to nurture digital relationships with their operators. To this end we use various resources and most importantly online digital research tools together with our own UFS databases. In this role you will be responsible for using these various research tools and techniques (mainly online digital) and identification of insights and translation of those insights into business strategy and landing them to the business effectively. You will be directly reporting to global UFS CMI Director, be a key business partner to the North American LT, including sales and marketing directors and flexibly work with and support the global research program representing North America.

As an Associate Director, CMI, you will,

• Act as a thought leader and business partner to drive business growth by building and embedding understanding of our customers, the category, and the market.
• Be a strong strategic thinker with the ability to join the dots between several different sources of data and information. Must be able to build a cohesive recommendation that helps drive the business forward.
• Build and deliver the annual insights agenda against business objectives and critical knowledge gaps to unlock growth opportunities for the business.
• Drive greater customer connectivity and insights to inspire stronger target consumer engagement through marketing campaigns and activities
• Conduct market research projects with operators and consumers with an agile mindset. Flexibly support MCOs/countries in their research needs where there is no local CMI available
• Lead workshops/global cascades for introducing research insights to the business and translate insights into action
• Manage local agency partnerships and annual contracts

About you:

• 8+ years of strategic insights marketing experience with an effective approach in influencing senior stakeholders and peers and hands on experience with qualitative, quantitative, and digital research tools.
• Excellent communicator - able to tell a compelling evidence-based story
• Curious, a self-starter and eager to learn. If you run into an issue, you won’t stop searching until you understand the cause and find the solution. You have a “can do” mentality and think in solutions rather than problems.
• Entrepreneurial and enjoy the learning process it brings.
• Result oriented & data excites you. You have strong analytical skills and data is leading in your actions and recommendations.
• Precise with a strong eye for detail.
• Approachable, patient and experienced in stakeholder management
• Advanced analytical and communication skills
• Truly flexible and agile person, quickly adopt and engage new business

Pay: The pay range for this position is $138,900 to $208,300. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.

If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at NA.Accommodations@unilever.com. Please note: This email is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry about positions or application statuses.