What this position is about - Purpose:
The Agile Strategic Insight Specialist supports the Strategic Insight (SI) team in providing brand, consumer, and trade insights for decision-making. Responsibilities include analyzing and interpreting category and brand trends, consumer and market research, competitor activities, and external data. In this role, you will identify market opportunities, conduct ad hoc analysis, monitor pricing activities, support departmental processes, conduct qualitative and quantitative research projects within the Strategic Insight framework, play a pivotal part in forecasting processes and maintain and improve systems and reporting for efficiency.

What will you do - Responsibilities:
Collate, analyze and interpret relevant data to assist in strategic decision-making processes
Provide and support the department with timely and accurate analysis within the fields of pricing, sales, brand, consumer and trade research
Contribute to strengthening SI's capabilities of mapping the market, monitoring and detecting market trends and forecast market dynamics accordingly
Support the department in improving consumer targeting and facilitate making connections between different knowledge areas and sources
Drive collaboration with internal departments and external vendors to achieve project and task execution excellence
Communicate insights in a clear, accessible and easy-to-understand format
Maintain and develop the Strategic Insight department’s tools and sales systems that are being used to make insights more accessible to the organization
Support PPO in the market research vendor selection process
Support the SI Manager with forecasts (Markets, Segments, JTI Portfolio and competitors) and tasks associated with the A&SP processes
Produce Nielsen reports, brand boards, retail audit reports and AA3s
Own the data input responsibility towards HQ functions (MS/MV input, Tax Book input, correctional tasks for RADRs etc)
Provide the organization, region and HQ with ad hoc analysis and summaries of monthly results
Act as the contact person for Nielsen, both internally and externally
Support the SI department in developing reports and the reporting systems
Maintain and develop the JTI Tracker research as well as annual incidence checks
Ensure that the JTI Tracker and incidence checks are aligned with global directives and take responsibility for quality improvements
Conduct qualitative and quantitative research projects within the SI framework and increase insights from previous projects and research results
Support the SI department in projects such as the analysis of consumers, competitors, key accounts and the tobacco industry as well as the development of tools such as geospatial analysis tools, store segmentation and forecasting/pricing modelss
Execute other SI-related or cross-functional projects assigned by the direct manager

Who are we looking for - Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics or Business Administration or related, a Master’s degree is an advantage
Relevant initial experience in FMCG working with Insight, Market Analysis/Research, Data Mining
Fluent English
Advanced knowledge of MS Office and Nielsen
Good knowledge in Power BI is meritabler
Ability to work with large quantities of data and CRM

You will be successful in this role if you :
are structured and systematic
have an analytical mindset
are able to use complex data and derive apprehensible stories

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