CTI Digital Research & Data Analyst Industrial Placement

CTI Digital Research & Data Analyst Industrial Placement

Who are we?

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home, and 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 Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Marmite, and Lynx. 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 is why our purpose is “to make sustainable living commonplace”.

About Personal Care

Personal Care is a €12 billion business with much loved deodorant, skin cleansing and oral care brands including Dove, Rexona, Lux, Axe, Lifebuoy and Pepsodent. We hold leading category positions in deodorants and skin cleansing globally and the #1 or #2 position in oral care in the countries where we are present.

Through our Personal Care brands, we are taking action to drive positive change. We are advocates for new policies, laws and social norms that will promote inclusion, health, and wellbeing for all members of society.

With more than 1 billion people using our products every day, we have an opportunity to use our scale for good. So that people and the planet can thrive together.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary, we also offer an end of placement bonus and a discounted staff shop. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

What does our role entail?

During the placement, the successful candidate will become a valued member of our Digital & Market Research Team and the Consumer Technical Insight Department within Deodorant R&D. They will contribute to high-impact market research projects, leveraging one of the most innovative digital platforms and collaborating with leading global market research agencies. In addition, the candidate will have the opportunity to support the development of AI capabilities, gaining valuable exposure to cutting-edge technologies that are shaping the future of the job market.

This is both a blue-sky role that gives you a chance to roll up your sleeves and dive into big data sets and consumers insight in order to build consumers stories that can help Unilever to build the products of the future and manage important market research projects. This is an opportunity to think big about how to interpret the behaviour of consumers and improve Unilever existing or new product.

Example of the daily job responsibilities

• Overall, learn to deliver and manage end to end a quantitative and/or qualitative consumer market research projects.
• Help deliver quantitative and qualitative consumer primary market research through surveys or other digital market research methodologies (e.g., Forums, Reviews, Online Focus Group).
• Handle survey scripting process using survey software platforms.
• Deliver Descriptive and inferential (e.g., T-Test, Correlation, Regression) Statistical analysis using software such as SPSS, MiniTab, R, Python, Excel. However, you will have the opportunity (if you want) to learn and deliver more complex data analysis techniques closer to the machine learning space.
• Data Cleaning and uploading into internal databases.
• Research & Development Industrial Placement
• Global Consumer Technical Insights
• Create and present appealing power point reports.
• Manage Market Research Projects
• Be an active member of R&D Community

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a purpose-driven individual with a passion for learning, innovating, market research and data analysis. Someone who loves data and can interpret insight easily and turn them into business or/and marketing strategies.

What do we require from you?

We would like to hear from you if you have any of the following:

• A passion for Market Research & Data Analysis
• A passion for Unilever and its initiatives
• Passion for AI and automation
• A desire to learn new business and technical skills throughout the placement
• Interest/ passion in quantitative and/or qualitative market research methods
• Interest/ passion in statistics or/ and statistical software such as R, SPSS, Python, Minitab, STATA
• Ability to recognise insights and communicate them effectively to a team
• Strong ambitions and independency
• Eligibility to work in the UK

Location of the placement will be Unilever Deodorant Global Centre, 96 Coal Road, Seacroft, Leeds UK LS14 2AR. It’s an office-based job opportunity with the opportunity to work 1 day per week (Friday) from home if required.

Recruiting process is composed of the following steps:

1. Interview – 40 Minutes – Competency and Skills based interview approach.
2. Assignment -1 week – Opportunity to experience (and test you) a typical task you will be likely to perform during the placement. This can give you an opportunity to see if the job role and consequential responsibility can meet your and our expectations.
3. Final Presentation – 40 minutes - Presenting the assignment during the final stage.

This placement will also be an opportunity for the team to evaluate you as a potential employee. Please note that this placement does not provide a fast track to the Unilever Future Leaders Programme (UFLP) but will provide you with a wealth of experience and opportunities to support any future application to the UFLP scheme.

If you are interested in applying for this placement, please email your up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV) and cover letter to Lucio Longo at lucio.longo@unilever.com. The closing date for receipt of applications will be 16th of November 2025, with the aim of interviewing late January/ February.

Before the submission of the application, we would recommend you to use the University Careers Service to make sure your CV, Cover Letter & interview skills are ready for a recruiting process.

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.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button which will direct you to an email application. Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.