Job For Category Insights Manager at Mondelez International LLC, 13th February, 2019

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Mondelez International LLC is a whole new company that has been re-imagined with a single focus in mind: create delicious moments of joy by sharing the world’s favorite brands. Launched on Oct. 1, 2012, and employing around 100,000 people around the world, MondelÄ'z International comprises the global snacking and food brands of the former Kraft Foods Inc. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Category Insights Manager Job Number: 1901736 Location: Lagos Job: Insights - Category Insights Schedule: Full-time Job Description

• The role of Category Insights is to drive growth and business results by embedding people centric strategies and actions into the organisation, said in other words, “to inspire growth by connecting with people”.
• This role is responsible to develop and leverage BU consumer and market in-depth understanding into business implications and recommendations, with shared accountability for growth and delivery of business results. This role works very closely with the stakeholders in local markets as well as regional teams based in other parts of the BU.
• This position is part of the MEA Beverages category, managing the Category Insights for all key market clusters under Middle Easyt & Africa.
• The purpose of this position is to actively contribute to the development of consumer-centric and market-relevant business strategies, and support the ambitious growth agenda of the BU.
• This position will be based out of Lagos, and will report into Manager, Category Insights Biscuits, Beverages and Meals MEA.
• Middle East & Africa is one of the 13 BUs established under the new Mondelez operating business model. Within each BU; separate category teams manage their respective brands and category P&Ls. The key categories being: Chocolate, Biscuits, Meals, Beverages and Gum & Candy. The Category teams lead the development and implementation of strategies that will drive a sustainable growth agenda of the BU.

Primary Accountabilities / Responsibilities 

• Category / Market Analysis: Ensure high quality tracking of the category, brand performance and NPDs in the markets. (Analysis of Retail Panel data, Consumer Panel data, Advertising Tracking, Competitive Product Testing, etc.)
• Develop Agency Partner Relationships: Proactively build and maintain effective agency relationships, both research agency and creative agencies. Ensure quality deliverables and high ROI from research partners.
• Growth opportunities: Proactively highlight business growth opportunities for relevant markets, by conducting thorough analysis of consumer needs and market trends
• Business Information needs: To proactively identify business information needs and ensure timely delivery of data/analysis to address these needs
• Market monitoring: To empower stakeholders with regular updates of market trends and performance of Mondelez brands
• Multiple stake-holders: Interacting and Engaing with multiple stakeholders, most of who will be based in other locations.
• Consumer & Market Landscape: Understand the consumer landscape through analysis of the consumer and market dynamics, the structure of the market (i.e. occasions & need states, product domains, retail dynamics etc.) and macroeconomic, culture and people and channel trends.
• Bring core/SVC consumer to life: Understand the Core Consumer and identify the SVC (strategic valuable consumer), bringing each to life in the most inspiring way.
• Compelling Recommendations: Communicate clear and compelling recommendations for concrete growth activities by combining consumer and category knowledge, as well as insights from multiple sources with consumer and business knowledge, and synthesize to provide clear understanding of present and future growth drivers.
• Guide Decision making: Build insights which guide business decision making regarding the following areas (might be involved in all of these areas or only some of them):
• Portfolio and architecture: Own and competitor brand portfolio mapping, brand architecture and stretch, brand/product/pack architecture, understanding consumer cohorts
• Innovation: Role of Innovation in brand/category growth, innovation platform development research, product and pack design guidance

Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Language Requirements Knowledge: including education, qualifications and training:

• Higher education business / marketing degree
• Additional professional marketing qualification
• Strong understanding of Nielsen Retail Audit
• Strong analytical skills / comfortable managing large aadhoc data sets
• Preferably experience with Consumer research and Qualitative research
• Competent in all standard PC packages including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Tablue (other visualization tools)

Leadership Competencies:

• Strong interest in ‘learning’ and training
• Strong leadership skills to challenge the status quo
• High analytical skills and wisdom/judgement to evaluate and improve delivery
• Ability to navigate the International structure and flexibility to work with differing work processes in each region
• Good interpersonal, intercultural and communication/influence skills
• Self starter, comfortable working within a remote team with members in multiple locations
• Effective management skills to develop team and lead/contribute to project management of custom projects.

Experience:

• Strong marketing research skills of at least 6 to 8 years of experience in this domain
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships with key suppliers
• Experience working cross cultrually

    How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

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