Strategic CTI Analyst

Unilever is currently hiring for: Strategic CTI Analyst

Function: Cyber Security – Cyber Threat Intelligence

Reports to: Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence

Scope: Global

Location: Nigeria

Terms & Conditions: Full time

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is one of the world's leading consumer goods companies with operations in over 190 countries and serving 3.4 billion consumers every day. Unilever delivers best in class performance with market making, unmissably superior brands which include Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann's, Marmite and Lynx. Our strategy beings with a purpose that places our consumers at the heart of everything we do, "Brighten everyday life for all".

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

 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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life 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. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.