iOPS European D&A Lead

For Unilever to remain competitive in the future, the business needs to continue the path to become data intelligent. The Data & Insights team will persevere to make Unilever Data Intelligent; powering key decisions with data, insights, advanced analytics and AI. 
 

Our ambition is to enable democratization of data, information and insights as ​a completely agile organization ​that builds fantastic careers for our people ​and is accountable for delivering great work ​that maximizes impact and delivers growth. 

This Data & Analytics function endeavours to create clear accountability for all aspects of Data Strategy, Data Management, Information Management, Analytics, and Insights. We would be accountable for impact of solutions, maintaining market relevance and minimising unnecessary overlaps in analytics products, ensuring simplicity and that our solutions better meet the needs of our users.

We would partner with the Digital and Data Legal Counsel to ensure that our Data Defence (Privacy, Governance, Quality, etc) is well structured and sufficiently robust to use data and AI correctly throughout the enterprise. We would democratize information across the business, while supporting the culture shift required for data driven decision making. Further, this team would drive capacity unlock from manual and duplicative reporting capabilities, while also refocusing a portion of the unlock on embedding predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities into our highest potential opportunities. 

We have four key operating principles:

One team

Connected to the business

Deploying with pace and discipline

Designing for experience
 

Our vision is to make Unilever data intelligent, partnering with the business to power key decisions with data, advanced analytics and AI to accelerate growth. Our 5 strategies to achieve this are: 

Accelerate & simplify access to relevant data, information and insights

Build in-house, leading-edge data, information, insights & analytics capability 

Lead the data & insightsculture and careers to empower employees across Unilever 

Rapidly embed analytics products, solutions and services to drive growth

Advance Information Automation at Scale 

Main Purpose of the Job: 

The iOPS Europe lead interfaces between the iOPS Design Authority D&A team, D&A product teams, Europe iOPS tech deployment teams and the iOPS markets to ensure the D&A activities in the iOPS Runway, Deployment and Run are delivered successfully and in a coordinated manner. 

Key accountabilities:

Work closely with SC and iOPS Director, the D&A iOPS Design Authority Lead and market engagement teams to plan the D&A components of the iOPS deploy and run capabilities.

Lead the D&A markets engagement in Europe for iOPS planning and running the engagement runway process including data assessments and pilots for all iOPS D&A/tech solutions

Be the point of contact for markets on business case development and sign off

Work with the iOPS DL orchestration lead to develop DL build and integration plans to support iOPS deployment

Coordinate delivery of the core D&A products with the D&A Global product teams – FEU, CD LW, TPx, SC LW, O2C, CDP, PDR plus additional ones as they develop 

Design with the D&A insight hubs what iOPS D&A capabilities will be deployed into them and what will not and manage that transition

Support the deployment of D&A capabilities and solutions into the iOPS partners as part of the transition

Be first point of contact to handle change requests, major incidents and performance issues of D&A solutions within the iOPS ecosystem

Experience and qualifications required

Essential:  

Global Project Management, Budgeting and Tracking 

Customer and Supply Chain process knowledge 

Good understanding of data and KPIs that support customer and supply chain

Strong Business Partnering capability and experience.

Experience of delivering projects and working with multiple business teams and stakeholders

Experience of delivering End to end Data and Analytics data governance and quality solutions

Ability to lead in a complex ambiguous environment

Ability to understand how to integrate data and analytics into business process and the value that can create

Internal 

Supply Chain and iOPS Business teams

D&A Portfolio Manager, Solution Factory, BDL Factory, Information Factory, Data CoE, Data Science Coe, Tech 

Transformation, Global Platforms Team, iOPS Design Authority

D&A Finance team

D&A Market and Insights hub
 

External

3rd party suppliers

iOPS Partners

Disclaimer

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and 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