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Vacancy For Consumer Insights Manager At FrieslandCampina

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it’s not just about what we do, but who we are.


We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our 22,000 employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.

Job Title: Consumer Insights Manager

 Location:  Lagos

Department:  B2C - Marketing

Job Type:  Full-Time

PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Assist Consumer and Shopper Insight Manager on running local and Global consumer related programmes.
Manage Consumer insights, analysis, research projects and related activities
The business partner for research and insight related topics for the platforms/marketing team.
Actively develop and advocate the use of a common insights process and toolset.
Ensure Market, Consumer desires and motivations are being understood and acted on with right business plans
Support the marketing / brand strategy and brand planning by identifying key current market, consumer and shopper trends - category/brand drivers and barriers.
Contribute to the building of a consumer centric organization.

Job description

In this position, you will be responsible for:

1. Source of Consumer Insights
Responsible for ensuring the development & generation of consumer insights through clean & accurate data
Responsible for ensuring relevant data sources are available to stakeholders.
Responsible for ensuring the development, generation, storage, & dissemination of consumer insights
Responsible for the professionalization of consumer research processes in order to ensure accurate & efficient generation of consumer insights.


2.Project Management

Maintain strong working relationship with agencies
Manage risks in dealing with vendors
Ensuring that objectives of stakeholders are clearly translated to agencies & in turn, understood by them
Able to manage significant project through the life cycle
Able to prepare detailed work breakdown structure, financial budget and timelines for the project
Able to define critical path of the project, anticipate potential obstacles
Able to adapt plan for changing circumstances
Able to allocate resources to meet needs, and performance objectives
Ensuring that timelines are kept, objectives are met & key questions are answered
Responsible to problem solve any unforeseen circumstances that may pop up during the duration of individual projects – need to plan for buffer on timelines & costs

3. Stakeholder business partner
Co support commercial team in the Integrated Commercial planning process.
Responsible to ensure stakeholder plans have been sufficiently challenged to maximize success.
Able to predict changes of consumer behavior and attitudes in the future and its impact to market and categories
Ensuring accurate market projections for target forecasting.
Ensuring facilitation of activities that will help with formulation of strategy e.g consumer immersions.


4. People Development & Research Capabilities enhancement
Utilizing resources of team, both subordinates & peers, in order to complete tasks at hand
Training/Coaching subordinates, peers, & superiors on (total company) on how to enhance market research skills e.g. running data, interpreting data, data acquisition etc.


Requirements

        Education, qualification and training
Minimum BSC/HND degree in any field with a 1st Class or min. 2nd Upper. Degree in Marketing, Research, social science, statistics or economics.

Experience and Professional Knowledge
Minimum 5 years working in the market research and an FMCG experience (a plus).
Functional and Technical Skills
Analytical skills
Extensive knowledge of research methodology
Presentation & Communication skills
Time and Project Management skills
Strategic thinking
Knowledge of principles and practical application in market research
Deep knowledge & long time experience in the field of consumer behavior(and shopper behaviour a plus).

Compensation benefits
Your salary is based on the weighting of your job, your experience and your training. FrieslandCampina offers not only a competitive salary but also training and education on the job because it’s important for our people to continue to grow. After all, your development is not only good for your career; our products also benefit from it. The mutual exchange of knowledge between colleagues is also evident on the work floor. It is, after all, the most effective way to learn.

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