Manager, Insights

Position Title: Manager, Insights
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace
Requisition ID: 29914
Are you known for being super-curious, strategic and a great storyteller? In that case, the Insights Team at McCain Foods would love to have you join our team! We are on a bold journey to ensure the consumer is at the center of all we do as we drive business growth. Reporting to a Sr Manager of North America Insights, this role is responsible for developing and championing consumer, and operator insights to drive business growth. This role will be responsible for leveraging foundational primary research, proprietary demand space framework, syndicated data and consumer trends and foresight to develop meaningful insights and strategic recommendations to deliver a competitive advantage to the company. The Manager will play an important role in the development and execution of McCain's go-to-market strategies and initiatives.
Essential Duties:

• Be the subject matter expert on assigned demand space to embed into organization, build opportunities for growth and create strategies to win.
• Drive insight development on Innovation and Marketing initiatives
• Collaborate with Innovation and Marketing teams to understand business questions and current and emerging priorities to develop, manage and execute customized learning plans that provide meaningful and actionable findings grounded in a depth of consumer understanding
• Educate organization on appropriate applications and limitations of available sources of consumer, shopper and customer data. Coach on custom study design, analytic techniques, data interpretation and storytelling
• Drive continuous improvement through ways of working, insights training and sourcing new innovative methods and techniques to drive novel insight generation with greater frequency, speed and scale

What will make you successful?

• Passion for Consumer Insights: 5+ years of Insights Experience (CPG or Foodservice experience a plus) Experience working research projects from inception to completion. Previous knowledge of sampling, project design, analysis, report writing and presentations a must. Experience with panel data like IRI, Nielson or NPD CREST (preferred)
• Strategic Thought Leadership: Ensure you are viewed as an expert that must be at the table for key decisions
• Strategic Storyteller: In conversation, in presentation, with data, via PowerPoint & Excel
• Self-Motivated: While part of a strong team of Insights experts, embrace the autonomy of creating learning plans and executing the work on your own
• Creative Resiliency: Incessant creative problem solver of ambiguous challenges
• Successful candidate must be able to interact effectively with senior and junior levels of organization across many functional areas. Candidate must have ability to think rationally and creatively, recognize and test assumptions, and move to creative problem resolution by identifying facts, causes and issues and present solutions. Candidate must demonstrate strong business acumen and have ability to make effective and efficient use of financial resource to achieve intended results

This is a hybrid role based out of our corporate office in Oakbrook, Illinois.
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Job Family: Marketing
Division: NA Potato
Department: Insights NA
Location(s) : US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace || US - United States of America : Illinois : Chicago || US - United States of America : Illinois : Lisle
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.