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The Global B&W Strategy & Operations team partners closely with the Global B&W leadership team to drive outstanding multi-year performance. The team’s remit spans three pillars: Deliver (operations and innovation), Plan (business planning), and Shape (define multi-year strategy). This Business Analyst role supports the Senior Global Strategy Manager and Director predominantly in the Shape pillar — turning data and insight into powerful strategic recommendations on portfolio, geography, channel and operating models. You will play a central role in running analyses, building opportunity-sizing, and helping to craft executive-ready presentations that influence decisions at the highest level. You’ll gain exposure to global strategic projects shaping the future of Unilever’s Beauty & Wellbeing portfolio, as well as the opportunity work directly with senior stakeholders, including the Strategy Director and CMO. The role offers hands-on experience across data, strategy and communication in one of the world’s most dynamic categories.
Job Responsibility:
Market and consumer data analysis and insight generation
Partner with Consumer & Market Insights (CMI), Brand and Market teams to analyse and interpret consumer, market and competitor data
Lead quantitative analysis to support portfolio, channel and category strategy, including market sizing, trend forecasting, pricing and share modelling
Build and run models across market share, penetration, pricing, distribution and promotional effectiveness, leveraging both external sources (e.g. Euromonitor) and Unilever proprietary data
Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights, ensuring analytical rigour, consistency and version control across workstreams
Present your findings in clear, visually appealing charts and PowerPoint slides, with concise executive narratives
Financial and opportunity sizing
Analyse large financial datasets, building models and assumptions to assess financial opportunities
Support robust opportunity sizing through multiple triangulation approaches
Collaborate with Finance to develop financial models and business cases, estimating revenue and cost implications
Support on broader goals of Strategy & Operations Team
Support the Strategy & Operations team across key moments in the annual planning and strategy calendar
Contribute to the preparation of major internal and external events, conferences, and leadership forums
Support development of materials for strategy workshops, planning sessions and project gatekeeping reviews
Demonstrate flexibility and a proactive, can-do approach across ad hoc priorities
Requirements:
Experience in consumer/market insights or analytics, financial management or marketing within FMCG or a market research agency/consultancy
Genuine curiosity about the beauty industry, consumers and market trends
Advanced proficiency in Excel (data manipulation, modelling, scenario analysis)
Strong capability in PowerPoint (storytelling and presentation design)
Analytical and detail-oriented, with strong numeracy and logical problem-solving skills
Flexible and agile – able to react quickly to shifting priorities, handle ambiguity, take on feedback and work in an iterative manner with senior leaders
A collaborative team player, able to build relationships across functions such as CMI, Finance, and Marketing
Able to communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Fluent in written and spoken business English
Nice to have:
Prior exposure to Beauty categories is a strong advantage
What we offer:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
Annual bonus
Subsidised gym membership
Discounted staff shop
Shares
Flexible and hybrid working environment
Support for wellbeing including hubs, programmes and development opportunities