Senior Manager, CMI Predictive Analytics & Insights

Unilever•Hoboken, NJ

6d•$119,400 - $179,000

About The Position

At Unilever, the Power of One CMI team sits at the heart of driving growth—transforming data into decisive action across categories and the U.S. market. By blending cutting-edge analytics with forward-looking insights, this team partners closely with business leaders to unlock opportunities, solve complex challenges with agility, and shape what’s next. This role is central to that mission, combining strategic problem-solving with the stewardship of our most critical performance data assets, and influencing how insights power decisions across the organization.

Requirements

Demonstrated high performance, 7-9 years of relevant insights & analytics experience
Prior experience working with core data agencies like Circana, Numerator, and NIQ is critical for this role
Prior experience managing direct reports or consultants
Proven ability to think through problems, provide clear logic, and influence stakeholders with actionable recommendations
Comfortable presenting complex information to senior level audiences – both verbally and in writing
Highly skilled in Excel (Advanced) and affinity for other analytic tools
Project positive attitude with history of dependability, resourcefulness and goal orientation
Passionate, Curious attitude, Strong interpersonal skills, Flexible, and Team player
Undergraduate degree required.
MS Office proficiency required.
Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools (e.g., automation, insights generation) and a growth mindset to learn quickly as new capabilities emerge

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Marketing, Marketing Research, Analytics, Economics or Business preferred.
Modeling experience welcomed

Responsibilities

Become an indispensable business partner with Business Group Leaders across Consumer & Market Insights, Marketing, Finance, Sales/CD and D&T
Drive business impacts across the community through insights and foresights from analytics.
Solve business problems and work with cross functional teams to turn recommendations into actions.
Communicate strategic and operational recommendations to CMI Business Unit Leads, GMs, & Category Leadership teams
Build stories using multiple data sets and synthesize into clear insights; suggest analytical approaches, analyze the data yourself or partner with agencies like Circana/Numerator to tell the story with data
Lead bringing industry experts in to share learnings with the US organization through CMI Perspectives series
Manage Key Metrics reporting across Business Units for the USA – including TO Weighted Market Share, TDP Share, Penetration, etc.
Connect regularly with the Global CMI team to ensure that there is alignment between local and global tools.
Help embed automated, AI-enabled reporting (standardize definitions, validate outputs, and drive adoption across stakeholders)
Help manage rollout of key analytic tools, including price elasticity studies
Partner with specialists in analytics (including but not limited to Pricing, Forecasting, etc) to help guide the marketing team in their business decisions
Stay on top of “new news” within the Performance data space – actively look for opportunities to expand market coverage and find creative solutions to requests from our teams
Be on the forefront of marketplace & shopping forces impacting and shaping the US - working with industry effects to be 'always on' with how retail, digital, and shopper expectations are evolving
Integrates signals across retail performance, shopper data, cultural trends, and competitive activity to define where, why, and how consumers are buying
Partner with the D&T team to ensure core data sets (such as Circana, Numerator, NIQ, etc) are ingested into our data lake at levels needed to support business tools and processes
Manage Research & Data spending and purchase orders