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At Danone we operate Smart Working, this means that our Danoners are entrusted to balance the needs of their role, business, and stakeholder needs with their own personal choices on where and how they best do their work. We value output and personal contribution, enabling ‘Danoners’ to be their most energised, healthy, and productive selves.

When team connection and collaboration is required, our hubs are located in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin.

Role Purpose

Identify growth opportunities through deep understanding of Market/Brand/Category Performance; Partner with Brand & Commercial teams to deliver growth through managing a diverse range of research projects

Role Focus

• Support the creation of strategic frameworks to unlock growth opportunities across Beverages and be a key point of contact for Beverages Portfolio (Evian & Volvic).
• Identify growth risks/opps through management and coordination of relevant Market, Category, and Brand reporting to primarily Beverages stakeholders (in conjunction with One Universe)
• Lead on ad-hoc Brand-led primary projects across positioning, innovation, and comms and co-build strategy with Beverages brand teams. Support on selected PBB Brand-led projects across positioning, innovation and comms.
• Lead/support market, consumer, shopper, category, and channel ad hoc primary research projects
• Be an ambassador of consumer & shopper centricity across the business through the initiation and management of consumer closeness programmes
• Play an active role in the creation of impactful and engaging, growth-orientated category deep dive presentations, leveraging a rich array of data and insight and presenting in appropriate forums
• Collaborate with F&I Analytics Manager to maximise ROI on our contracts. Coach and feedback to help them become ‘trusted advisors’. Ensure maintenance of related databases.
• Build a network inside & out the business with agencies and other functions to ensure F&I is fully connected and strongly influencing the business
• Lead by example to promote data self-serve culture in the business

As a successful Foresight & Insights Manager, we would love to see you demonstrate -

Leadership Competencies

• Thinks beyond own role, identifies opportunities to collaborate and contributes to team development
• Broadens scope to drive team performance; considers impact on others to deliver more for the team
• Identifies opportunities and confidently solves complex problems in a short-medium term horizon
• Leads own development and develops a personal leadership footprint
• Proactively builds a strong network across local/global business and engages through communication

Functional Competencies

• Strategic Catalysts for People-Centric Growth @qualified level
• Uncovers Deep Human Truths to build manifesto brands @qualified level
• Drives People Centric Innovation @qualified level
• Leads through digital fluency, data mastery and storytelling @qualified level

Experienced in

• Managing a range of ad hoc primary research projects across qualitative and quantitative domains
• Navigating complex data sets and in the extraction/interpretation of continuous data sources
• Joining the dots between multiple data sources and creating concrete business recommendations
• Communicating with external agencies and managing the relationship between key business partners

Danone are a world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names, ranging from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian. In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible.

We operate at 5 production sites as well as our 3 HUBS in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin - led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success. We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.

‘A force for good’, we are the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

As a global company, Danone serves a huge array of different communities, with different cultures, local tastes and habits. Our teams need to represent the diversity of these millions of people and we therefore encourage applications from all backgrounds and aim to create a workplace where our Danoners can be their true authentic selves.

What we offer?
Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people. We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, flexible benefits and product vouchers.

What’s next?

If you are interested in applying for the role then please don’t hesitate to proceed with an application. The deadline for applications on this role is Friday 21st July. If we would like to get to know more about you and your application then we will be in touch shortly after the deadline.