**Associate CMI Manager \- Research Innovation**
**Description**
Associate CMI Manager – Research Innovation
Position Summary:
Are you a digital native? Do you have a passion for helping to craft the future of insights? Would you like to be part of inventing the future of how we understand consumers in the connected world?
The world as we know it has changed and the rate of change of technology is accelerating\. Moore’s Law of doubling in speed and halving in cost is now considered too slow to explain changes in computing power\. Consumers are more connected than ever before\. They are shopping more online, they are turning to online videos for entertainment and information, they are streaming TV shows so they can watch when it’s convenient for them, they are influenced by online personalities, and they are rarely found without a mobile device in their hand\.
Understanding consumers in this connected world has disrupted the traditional market research industry\.As one of the largest market research buyers in the world, Unilever Consumer & Market Insights \(CMI\) is at the forefront of creating the new world of measurement and methodologies\.This role within the CMI Research Innovation team will focus on driving the future of media and digital methodologies for Unilever with a range of internal and external partners\.
Key Responsibilities:
* Leads the agenda for research innovation within the global Connect team\. The vision for Connect is to embrace this CONNECTED world\. Connect is where people, data, technology, & measurement become one\. Where efficiency & effectiveness metrics collide\. Where all consumer touch\-points matter, requiring a creative spark for innovation and communication projects
* Identifies new opportunities and priorities to build methodologies and new ways of understanding consumers in the connected world
* Partners with external start\-ups as well as the insight leads at our major media partnerships to create and pilot new methodologies and tools for Connect
* Engages with and inspires the insight industry to help move the industry into the future
Skills & Competencies Required:
* Undergraduate degree required
Work Experience:
* Demonstrated high performance, 3 to 6 years of relevant experience in insights, media or a start\-up in a relevant area
* Passion for understanding consumers and methodologies
* Personal passion for media and digital
Experience with media measurement tools as well as quantitative and qualitative research
* Desire to provoke the way people think about methodologies and be part of crafting new frontier
* External focus and curiosity to know what is happening beyond one’s own company
Unilever offers acompetitive compensation package which includes: Medical & Dental Plans,Life Insurance, including eligible spouses, domestic partners & children;Health Care Flexible Spending, Dependent Care, 401k Savings Plans, TuitionReimbursement, Paid Vacation and Holidays\.
Please note: as part ofthe job application, you will be asked to complete an online assessment\.Completion of the assessment is mandatory\. In order to be considered, pleaseallow yourself plenty of time to complete both the application and assessment\.If the assessment is filled out partially or not at all, it will adverselyaffect the progress of your application\. Please be aware that you will have tocomplete the assessment at once as you will be unable to return to it later\.
Unilever is anorganization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business resultsand create a better future every day for our diverse employees, globalconsumers, partners, and communities\. We believe a diverse workforce allows usto match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business\.
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**Job:** Marketing
**Primary Location:** United States\-New Jersey\-Englewood Cliffs\-Englewood Cliffs \-700 Sylvan
**Schedule:** Full\-time
**Shift:** Day Job
**Unposting Date:** Jan\-15\-2017
**Req ID:** 16000J9O