Beauty & Wellbeing Business Intelligence Director

England, United Kingdom

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Job ID:: R-1173869
Date posted:: 01/27/2026
Job Type:: Part time
Job Category:: Marketing

Please Note:The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day beforethe job posting end date.

Job Title: Beauty & Wellbeing Business Intelligence Director

Location: London, UK

JOB PURPOSE

The Business Intelligence Solutions Director for Beauty & Wellbeing (B&W) is a dynamic strategic & operational role across all brands and markets, leading consumer & market data led business intelligence and advanced analytics with AI built-in across our Business Group. Driving integrated business & marketing strategy, execution, performance, growth & AI transformation, for both the business and function. Driving accelerated growth & competitiveness now & future, with strategic perspective and business acumen. This is a high impact high visibility role, with particular skill & leadership competencies, leading from the frontline through collaboration & influence cross functional in a matrixed organisation. It is also pivotal role in reshaping the future of marketing, research and innovation at scale for the Business Group, with savvy objectivity, business acumen & expert rigour.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Deliver business impact analytics led programs with business outcome value at scale, while simplifying complexity, at record speed. Translate strategy into data driven execution performance steering and pre emption, locally and globally. Deliver with high frequency and urgency, both C-suite pithy level and granular at cross sections of internal and external data across markets and brands & competitive analyses, with data driven financial acumen.

1. Consumer, Market & Business Analytics for Strategy & Business Leadership

Drive development, application and adoption of AI led advanced analytics solutions with consumer and market data relevance for Beauty & Wellbeing sector, from enterprise strategy, portfolio of brands, innovations and markets, through to ‘store shelf’ end to end.
Lead the embedding of consumer, market, segments and channels led share gain, expandability and premiumisation strategies & execution; including growth forecasts, competitive intelligence business solutions, pricing vision and implementation of relevant KPIs, tools and governance.
Lead the assimilation, implication and communication of external macro economic drivers, foresight forecasts and scenario planning into business & marketing strategic choices and execution pivots market, both short and long term.
Build competitive advantage simple data systems blended externally and internally for data analytics driven media spend leverage and execution, both with media landscapes insights, foresight, investment levels and ROIs at various layers.
Work with senior leadership and project teams to commercialise the upstream brand, innovation, channel and market development.
Act as the internal expert and impartial consultant with insight and business acumen to senior leadership, providing expert advice on strategic and business questions with high agility, simplicity and speed.
Partner and lead across CMO, CFO, President, Strategy Leads, Category & Market CMI Leads, Brand VPs, and Country CMI Leads for seamless consumer and market analytics systems, outputs and one version clarity in decision-making cross forums.
Develop a growing B&W capability in enterprise program management for Innovation and M&A cultivation in both organic and inorganic growth, with underlying consumer potential velocity.

2. Strategy into Action & Bi-Focal (Business & Consumer/Channel) Performance Steering

Define and lead reporting and analysis of strategically relevant performance metrics that deliver on both internal business and external consumer consistent choice winning in the marketplace
Build and embed dynamic DIYs in light-to-no touch self serve immediacy across complex and disparate data structures & sources, leveraging Agentics, AI & partnerships.
Identify anticipatory and pre emptive issues and opportunities in activation to win in marketplace cross portfolio, tracking performance against defined JTBDs and strategic objectives.
Build, simplify and implement business winning and investment decisions short and long term into scaling brand desirability & choice, winning in channels of sales and communication media cross touchpoints, assortments & platforms.
Sustain an outside-in, future forward consistency within in-year performance and roadmap to transformance, making business savvy recommendations for corrective actions and growth unlocks based on data-driven insights.
Oversee business forecasting, P\&L management, and target delivery by brand, business unit, and market-making activity.

3. Transformation in organisation, talent & culture.

Empower operations and senior leaderships at B&W enterprise level cross marketing, insights, finance, supply chain and CSP with a shift into real time always on one version insights & analytics to accelerate performance and anticipate demand, with supporting data driven literacy and simplification cross brand and market units.
Champion & discern innovation in ways of working for analyses, including data democratization, segmentations, build and adoption of GenAI-powered quick build solutions off Unilever mainframes, at scale.
Drive the transformation of marketing analytics into competitive edge Business Intelligence, introducing new methodologies and approaches as needed to data-driven decision-making.
Lead the creation and adoption of data ecosystems and scale AI+EI model & agents precisions steered by discerning human judgement & expertise. Applied in self serve DIY information democratization, productivity improvements & effectiveness multipliers.
Foster a culture of disciplined problem-solving, ruthless simplification & speed, prioritisation, and excellence in delivery.
Develop direct and non-reporting teams applied skills, talent and communication, including strategic partners.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Minimum 10 years’ experience in business insights, analytics, brand management, or related fields such as supply chain or finance , driving impact from frontline business end not backend analytics.

Proven track record in analytics transformation, business performance management, and strategic consulting.
Demonstrated ability to lead teams and manage cross-functional partnerships.
Experience with AI and advanced analytics tools, and a strong interest in leveraging technology for transformation.
Deep business acumen: ability to interpret data and knowledge into actionable plans, not just technical analytics.
Experience in innovation planning, benefit segmentation, and market-making activities.
Strategic & critical thinking commercial vision, problem solving and implementation.
Track record results oriented marketing and business acumen impact led insights.
Team leadership and people management in growth mindset, agility, AI integration, influence and trust building.
An ambidextrous analytical and AI business leader, able to drive nimble execution with business result impact at scale.
Par excellence in own and data integrity, impartiality, alignment, communication and impartiality in stakeholder management.
Demonstrable ability to simplify the complex, drive impact & adoption from insight.
Working knowledge to leading edge analytics solution development including LLMs, Agentics, ML, Gen AI and advanced analytics, with external orientation.
Collaboration with autonomy in high intensity priorities and urgencies juggling between the immediate and future building.
Expertise in statistical programming, data science, & Agentics quick builds with commercial acumen.

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About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food,Homeand Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove,Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil,Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet.That’swhy our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan toconsolidatea number ofUnilever’s offices across theSouthEastof England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal toretainour central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet tocommenceconsultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme,wealso offer an annual bonus,subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares.You’llhave the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs,programmesand development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace andto, above all, createpossibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creatingpossibilitiesand growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. 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. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups,please click hereEquity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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