Strategic CTI Analyst at Unilever

UnileverNigeria Networking and Tech Support

Full Time

Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh. People's lives are changing fast. As the way we all live and work evolves, our needs and tastes change too. At Unilever we aim to help people in their daily lives. So we keep developing new products, improving tried and tested brands and promoting better, more efficient ways of working. We have a portfolio of brands that are popular across the country. Popular because of our two key strengths: Strong roots in local markets and first-hand knowledge of the local culture. World-class business expertise applied internationally to serve consumers everywhere. Focusing on performance and productivity, we encourage our people to develop new ideas and put fresh approaches into practice. Hand in hand with this is a strong sense of responsibility to the communities we serve. We don't only measure success in financial terms; how we achieve results is important too. We work hard to conduct our business with integrity - respecting our employees, our consumers and the environment around us. Unilever is proudly one of the country's leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods in all our three divisions - Foods, home care and personal care. Foods We are the largest seller of packet tea with our Lipton brand leading the Foods and Beverages category. We are the category leader in margarine in the country with the Blueband brand. In savoury, our Royco and Knorr brands are household names you can't ignore. Home & personal care We are highly visible in the home care market in the country, which includes cleansing and hygiene products. Our home care products, Omo and Sunlight are household names synonymous with home care. Within the personal care market, we are very visible with brands like Lux and Pears to help you look and feel good.

This role will support the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team in proactively collecting cyber security information and events and converting them into actionable intelligence that will be used by various technologies and stakeholders for securing Unilever. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of cyber threat intelligence processes, tools, and technologies, and will play a key role in identifying, analysing, and reporting on cyber threats that could impact our organization.

The Strategic Threat Intel Analyst will play a key role in identification, interpretation, transformation, and dissemination of threat intelligence crucial to the protection of Unilever. The candidate will support the daily operations of the CTI team in areas ranging from Strategic, Tactical and Operational intelligence.

The role should possess analytical skills to be able to assess and prioritize signals from the noise to ensure resources are utilized optimally at CTI and dependent teams.

This role involves continuous monitoring of the threat landscape, profiling threat actors and malware, tracking vulnerabilities, and the production of actionable intelligence to support decision-making, and keeping the stakeholders informed of threats that could have an adverse impact on the organization. The role is key to transforming the produced intelligence to cater to audiences ranging from technical to business stakeholders.

This role is also crucial to Unilever's overall cyber threat management efforts, as it helps to drive the right focus on cyber threats and instilling confidence that adequate countermeasures in line with the NIST Cyber Security Framework (version 2.0).

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE:

Intelligence Collection & Analysis

Identify, collect, and analyze open-source, commercial, and proprietary threat intelligence relevant to the organization’s risk profile.
Monitor geopolitical, cybercriminal, and emerging threat landscapes to assess potential impacts on business operations.
Develop threat models and scenarios to anticipate adversary behaviour and tactics.

Strategic Reporting & Communication

Produce high-quality intelligence reports, briefings, and dashboards tailored for executive leadership, security teams, and business units.
Translate complex threat data into actionable insights aligned with business priorities.
Present findings in strategic forums and influence decision-making with intelligence-driven recommendations.

Incident Response Support:

Work with the Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) in supporting them with cyber investigations.
Enrich and contextualize threat intelligence to support the investigations and containment efforts.

VIP Protection

Support investigations to ensure scams and frauds against / impersonation Executives are thwarted in a quick and efficient manner.
Support in creation of digital footprints for Executives to create awareness about their sensitive information present in publicly accessible forums.

Metrics and Reporting:

Create and maintain cyber threat intelligence content in Unilever’s central collaboration spaces.
Collaborate with Unilever’s Cyber Security Analytics (CSA) team for alignment on reporting of CTI metrics.

SKILLS

The role is highly responsive, and responsible for identification, analysis, processing, and distribution of intelligence related to threats and vulnerabilities.
Stay up to date on the threat landscape.
Excellent analytical, problem solving and presentation skills with a flair for technical aspects of cyber security.
Prioritize and use information derived from open and commercial intelligence disciplines to determine new / changes in actor activity, capabilities, intent, and resources.
Lead research efforts tracking threats and actors across industry verticals
Performing and adding structured intelligence analysis to the Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP).
Technical analysis of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) used in cyber incidents and campaigns: Analyzing attack vectors, finding adversary infrastructure, establishing intrusion chain, structured documentation of findings on the TIP.
Providing Intelligence support to Incident Response teams in Security Operations, Cyber Security teams and Business stakeholders.
Engage with IT and Security teams to apprise them of threats to the technology landscape and drive remediation.
Producing intel reports on incidents, campaigns and emerging threats for technical and Executive audience.
Usage of AI to simplify and automate CTI activities with working knowledge of automation using API integrations and webhooks.

Experience:

Minimum 4 – 5 years of experience in Information / Cyber Security domain with at least 2 years as Threat Intelligence Analyst.
Strong experience analysing and synthesizing actionable threat intelligence via open-source tools.
Solid understanding of threat intelligence lifecycle, cyber kill chain and Mitre ATT&CK framework.
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud) and their resilience features.
Solid understanding of network and endpoint security concepts in on-prem and cloud environments.
Solid understanding of vulnerabilities, how they affect systems, organizations and their corresponding context and severity (CVEs, CVSS, CPE and vulnerability disclosures).
Ability to identify, create, execute, and adjust standard operating procedures for day-to-day operations.
Ability to document technical analysis and articulate outcomes to non-technical audiences
Understanding of current events in the security and threat intelligence world.
Strong experience with SIEM, EDR, NDR tools.
Good to have, but not mandatory – Cyber security certifications

Leadership

You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.