at Mondelez International in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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The Senior Manager, Global Insights & Analytics, Innovation Excellence will play a critical role in transforming the Insights & Analytics function (I&A), building best-in-class tools & capabilities that enable Mondelez to develop breakthrough innovation ideas and translate these into short & long-term brand growth.
Reporting directly to the Global lead of Creative & Innovation Excellence for I&A, this role requires a transformative change agent with a strong bias for action, able to paint a compelling vision of the desired end-state, while delivering short-term wins that materially impact the business. It also requires someone highly skilled in operating within a matrix, able to bring together and align cross-functional partners (Category Strategy, R&D/Consumer Sciences, Marketing Excellence, Mondelez Digital Services, I&A Shopper) as well as the Business Unit I&A teams.
K ey Accountabilities:
+ Working with cross-functional partners, this role will be responsible for developing & managing a world-class ecosystem of methodologies, tools, and KPIs designed to help the business:
+ Develop, optimize and measure the impact of product/pack innovation & renovation, inclusive of:
+ Core product/pack quality tracking (PQB/PackQB)
+ Innovation trend/opportunity spotting
+ Insight & desired consumer experience
+ Pre-launch concept & product testing, validation & forecasting
+ Post-launch measurement & optimization; evaluation/analysis of business & brand impact
+ Working with cross-functional partners and the local Insights & Analytics teams, this role will be responsible for building , deploying and embedding new innovation datasets, tools & capabilities within the Business Units, including delivering training, overseeing change management, ensuring adoption & governance.
+ Identifying the technology, infrastructure and resources required to effectively create data platforms that connect and maximize our innovation learnings and embed & operationalize these capabilities long-term.
+ Working with cross-functional partners, this role will be responsible for democratizing Innovation data as well as leveraging meta-data from the sum of innovation testing & measurement conducted to identify actionable learnings to inform our overall approach to innovation excellence
+ Partnering with Consumer Science and the Business Unit I&A teams, this role will be responsible for identifying, vetting and rolling out new data, analytics & research partners for Innovation, enabling the business to unlock more powerful, proprietary insights in an advanced & agile manner. This includes leveraging digital & transactional learning, DIY qualitative & quantitative vendors, etc.
+ With the guidance and support of the Senior Director, this role will contribute to critical reporting up to senior management to help drive strategic decisions surrounding Innovation.
Requirements:
+ Bachelor’s Degree required; Masters preferred
+ 8+ years in brand/category insights & analytics leadership roles
+ Strong experience in leveraging data, analytics & insights (and blending different disciplines & sources together) to fuel innovation development; expertise in some of the key vendors, methodologies & approaches in this area of practice
+ Proven people leadership with track record of building and developing highly motivated, empowered, and high-performing teams.
+ Transformative change agent with an expansive, innovative mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo.
+ Highly collaborative team player, proven track record of getting the best out of a team, regardless of location or reporting lines
+ Strategic, decisive, and proactive leader as well as a visionary thinker
+ Strong bias for action, with a proven track record in persuasively influencing and aligning business stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
+ Persuasive and effective communicator, obsessed with telling clear, compelling stories that influence stakeholders & drive action.
Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
