Chantel Paynter

I've led regional strategy, growth planning, and performance management for DSM-Firmenich's Unilever account across Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, and Israel.

I translate market, demand, product-performance, and customer data into growth opportunities, portfolio expansion cases, investment recommendations, and innovation priorities. Across complex multi-country environments, I align global strategy with local execution alongside commercial, technical, supply chain, creation, and evaluation teams.

Before account leadership, I owned marketing strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa at DSM-Firmenich, building market models, opportunity assessments, and go-to-market frameworks from consumer, category, pricing, and competitive analysis.

My experience also includes independent market research consulting and brand and trade marketing roles with Environ Skin Care, Galderma, AMKA Products, and Unilever. I'm strengthening my analytics capability through formal study in statistics, data science, machine learning, and Python.