Manager CME

Overview The main purpose of the role is to partner with the UK Grains Insights Team to deliver Business Intelligence Insights that support our commercial and marketing teams drive category growth and PepsiCo performance. The role will partner with key agencies to leverage a wide array of different inputs and data sources to drive clarity on marketplace, business and competitor performance drivers and fuel business planning processes. This will not only look at market performance but a holistic view on external dynamics from varying perspectives and different angles As a member of the Insights team, he/she will lead the translation of strategic business questions into analytics use cases and ultimately business impact through capturing needs and preparing relevant data sources. In addition to understanding existing business performance, he/she will be key to identifying opportunities through solid understanding of execution metrics and the business levers e.g. distribution, value, volume, category shares, penetration across key retailers and formats, flavours,etc. Responsibilities 1. Supporting the Business Analytics team with Business Performance on the Grains categories: · Partner with agencies to leverage data/tools to drive understanding of category, portfolio and brand growth by providing quality analytics of the UK business performance and its drivers.(execute) · Holistic performance reviews (monthly) of current business and innovation tracking and performance tear downs utilizing existing tools (Nielsen Answers, Kantar WPO) and working with GBS teams in hub locations. · Lead the day-to-day connection with continuous data partners (Kantar, Nielsen etc.) 2. Supporting the team with foundational data sources to fuel the business planning processes: · Business and Competitor Intelligence: proactively framing questions and deliver situational assessments to identify threats and opportunities of current landscape and competitive context to inform decision making. · Macro & Consumer Trends: leverage global tools to deliver comprehensive understanding how macro and consumer trends impact the category and its brands. · Customer and Commercial Insights: supporting the DX and Revenue Management teams to ensure that perfect store, PPA and category management plans are based on clear insight. · Creating PowerBI dashboards for addressing Business Questions would be good to have. Qualifications The successful person will have basic functional experience gained at a research agency or at a peer multinational FMCG. 5+ years Business Intelligence experience Basic understanding of critical foundational data sources, methods and processes: performance and driver analysis, situational assessments, media effectiveness, contextual consumer understanding etc. Ability to partner with agencies to develop data/insights into a clear story that the business can follow and understand Strong analytical skills, able to synthesise and integrate learning from multiple sources and see the connections in data, trends, events etc to generate insights. Highly competent at Excel and PowerPoint user. Good experience and expertise across multiple standard continuous data sources such as Nielsen, Global Data, Euromonitor, GFK HHP, OMD Media, Kantar, Strong analytical skills, able to synthesise and integrate learning from multiple sources and see the connections in data, trends, events etc to generate insights Good communication and presentation skills to distil complex data and information into actionable insights Ability to work independently without day to day manager engagement Strong influencing skills to set the business agenda with senior stakeholders - demonstrates track record in establishing analytic insights as a driver of growth and business success Ability to combine data, judgement and experience to make effective decisions in complex situations and when there is a lot of uncertainty or ambiguity Actively seeks and understands the input of others to gain broad alignment to ideas and effectively manages process to move teams towards a common goal Strong drive for results, a proven self-starter who thrives on a broad remit and the opportunity to make a real impact