Assiatant Retail Innovations Manager

Full Job Description

Reports to: Head of Customer Marketing and Retail Innovations

Scope: Local

Location: Head Office

Terms & Conditions: Full-time

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world. 

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you are passionate about enabling senior leadership decision making by identifying the key drivers of KPIs by building causal models and scale successful models both in design and on ground execution of sales and distribution, then this role is just for you! You would execute deep, complex quantitative analyses that translate data into actionable insights. You will be supporting projects under development that can improve the performance of the KPIs in Sales, Distribution and Merchandising.
 

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Deep dive into assessment of key drivers for key performance indicators (KPIs) by drawing relevant business hypothesis and quantify the impact of these drivers on the relevant KPI.

• Be responsible for defining and improving key metrics and communicating business trends to leadership.

• Work closely with the business/ product teams to enable data driven decision making.

• Think at scale and integrate solutions into product systems.

• Be responsible for assortment planning and demand capture efficiency in the sales and distribution network for the company.

• Identify stock keeping units (SKUs) which can be categorized as Cousin-SKUs and guide the sales team to effectively manage sales & distribution.

• Analyze and enable senior management on service mix model and Route-to Market (RTM) excellence.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

Candidate should:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Sales or Business Management.

• Have 2-3 years of experience in sales and retail innovations, preferably in an FMCG environment.

• Previous work experience in FMCG route to market related roles would be an added advantage.

• Have proficiency in SQL, Power BI, other scripting languages (R, Python, etc.) will be an added advantage.

Skills

• Data Driven Decision Making

• Business Acumen

• Design for Channel

• Data Literacy

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

  • CONSUMER LOVE : Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

  • PURPOSE & SERVICE : Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

  • AGILITY : Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! 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. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity 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. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bring ing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.