Trade Promotion Executive -Data Analytics- Research - 6-12 Months

The Programme

As an analyst, you are accountable for delivering impactful customer and consumer solutions and add measurable business value to Unilever.  
 
We partner with our strategic vendors (Also in-house) to lead technology, systems and scaled transformation across the region and globe. 
 
Team Structure - Reporting to - Group Commercial Innovation & Analytics Manager. 
 
Key Stakeholders – Internal - Customer Strategy and Planning; Customer Business Development; Geo IT; Customer Service Operations and Supply Chain.

What You Will Do

The role will be working on a business intelligence solution tool to help to answer business questions on:

• Effectiveness of promotion mechanism. 
• Financial implications on incremental uplift and profit. 
• Scenario building towards competitive advantage. 
• Analysis on promotion and investment returns. 
• Facilitate CBD business unit in delivering Data & Analytics agenda for a business transformation project and solutions. 
• Manage Data Readiness Assessment project and co-ordinate stakeholders across Tier 1, 2 and Data Pilot phases. 
• Embed data analytics & decisions into Unilever's monthly business process, based on both external data (e.g., market share and Point-of-Sales/POS Data) and internal data (e.g. sales data). 
• Lead category/channel forecasting on Market Size Estimates and Market Share Growth projections based on the available internal & external data analysis. 
• Improve Trade efficiency and enable trade cost saving by running analytics. 
• Data science or innovation projects to solve existing business questions differently by IoT, automation, external data, etc. 
• Our analytics are a combination of insight and foresight. Overall work would be a good mix of delivering today (70-80% time/capacity) and creating tomorrow (20-30% on innovation/data science projects).

Required Skills and Abilities

What You’ll Need to Succeed 

• Bachelor/master's degree in a relevant field (Business Analytics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, Econometrics, or Mathematics) is preferred. 
• Overall working experience of 1 - 3 years in data and business analytics is preferred. 
• Fresh Graduate is encouraged to apply. 
• Strong track record of working with senior business leadership to drive definition, alignment, and support for application of analytics and data to address complex business issues (e.g., centralization of promotion spending decisions). 
• Ability to rapidly connect and match analytics and data products to business needs. 
• Expert knowledge of analysis tools such as Python, R, Power Query; Power BI and Etc. 
• Experience in coding languages (Java, C) is a plus. 
• Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing tools a plus.   
• Familiarity with relational databases in SQL & Azure. 
• Working knowledge to apply Microsoft Azure analytics product to develop scaled analytic models in the cloud. 
• Passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data. 
• Ability to apply an agile analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision. 
  Ability to communicate complex quantitative insights in a precise, and actionable manner.

Travel:

• No travelling is required.

About Unilever: 

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. 
 
We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas, and disrupt processes: use your energy to make this happen.  
 
Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, many Malaysian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life-giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future. 
 
Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work.  
 
Join us and you will be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you will channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we will work to help you become a better you.