Personal Care Consumer Market Insights Assistant Manager

Job Purpose

The Consumer & Market Insights (CMI) Assistant Manager will be responsible for analyzing market data to identify business issues and opportunities, competitive landscape, trendspotting and innovation ideas that support business growth, leading real-time management of innovation projects including post-launch monitoring, as well as piloting innovation methods & approaches. He/she will partner cross-functional Personal care Philippines team in measuring in-market performance and identifying opportunities to harness growth.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead real-time management of innovations projects, from ideation/co-creation, mix developmental learnings (qual/quant) and testing
• Identify & integrate consumer insights into various innovation projects.This will include funnel innovations & renovations on Core and NPD.
• In-charge of tracking innovation performance by setting up NPI tracking (incrementality KPI, 100 days innovation, etc)
• Responsible for building and developing relationships with the global-wide Innovation team and across key business partners including CTI, Marketing, R&D and Finance.
• Responsible for measurement and generation of insights from continuous research (retail data, consumer panel, brand tracking) and people voice programs to assigned Country Category Business Team (CCBT)
• Support the CMI Lead in delivering category, brand and innovation performance insights at a local division level

Role Requirements

• With 5-6 years of Data Analytics and Market Research experience
• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills to present clearly, simplify complex topics and influence decision-making
• Fully operational with analyzing any type of research data (retail audit, consumer panel, brand tracking, strategic researches) and synthesizing different data sources to identify growth levers or diagnose performance
• Good knowledge of market research fundamentals – design and management of qualitative and quantitative research, particularly mix development
• Innovation research experience and data analytical skill is a must
• At ease in a facilitation role – helping to stimulate idea generation, thriving to co-create ideas with the Business
• A team player – highly collaborative, accountable, open minded who likes to work in a rapid and agile way
• Passion for data analytics, innovation, trends and creativity
• Consumer Love – acute ability to put human first and ‘be in the search mode’ to unleash true human needs, adding value to people’s lives

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