Consumer Insights Controller

6 months ago

Chiswick Park Station, United Kingdom pladis Full time

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team?

Pladis’s global mission is to be the fastest-growing snacking company and is undergoing an exciting transition globally developing and implementing new plans to transform the sweet and Savoury snacking category and drive accelerated growth through our portfolio of much-loved brands. The Consumer & Market Insights (CMI) team is crucial to this transformation and now has a seat at the LT table to actively drive our growth agenda, as a source of competitive advantage for Pladis

What will this role achieve?

The UK Consumer & Market Insights team operates at the heart of our business, challenging current thinking and proactively moving the business forward and driving profitable growth. The Savoury Snacking Consumer Insight Controller will play a pivotal role in supporting the UK&I Insights Director, and the Savoury Snacking Marketing Director to develop and accelerate our consumer-centric Social snacking strategy, working on the iconic Jacobs and Mini Cheddars brand portfolio. You will work deeply alongside their commercial colleagues, identifying growth, developing winning strategies and optimizing execution.

What will be your key deliverables?
- Deliver ground-breaking human insights that support the development and execution of the Social Snacking portfolio, brand building and innovation strategy for Pladis UK&I.
- Champion Demand Centric Growth - Demonstrating our BCG demand space insights on where to play and how to win in order to drive growth in Social Snacking. Identifying the stretch potential of our Social Snacking brands to tap into new whitespace demand areas to fuel faster growth.
- Actively support the Social Snacking (SS) Marketing director in the development and execution of their Innovation strategy.
- Provoke future thinking, by demonstrating relevant consumer & cultural trends & foresights, that will lead the development of hard-working fast growing & long-lasting innovation.
- Lead the development of a winning SS 3 years innovation pipeline through the identification of SS snacking Innovation platforms that will drive strong idea generation and concept development in order to help Pladis to move to a leading position in Social Snacking.
- Lead the delivery of world-class innovation insight, including product, pack and price development, ensuring best-in-class commercialization
- Develop and lead the execution of a consumer-centric research plan that will inform SS brand building and Coms strategy.
- Inspire the business on the strengths of our SS brands, through an advantaged understanding of Distinctive Brand Assets, their cultural relevance, existing associations/strengths, and their power to drive macro-snacking growth
- Drive accelerated growth of Jacobs Masterbrand through the development of world-class communication and activation strategies
- Work in close collaboration with senior partners, our CMO, VP R&D, Net Revenue Management and customer teams as well as the Global Insights team.
- Manages CMI SS brand building and innovation insight budget

Bring your experience
- A minimum of 12 years of CMI experience with another FMCG manufacturer, ideally within Impulse/Snacking categories, with a solid understanding of brand building and innovation research methodologies.
- Demonstrates a high level of intellectual curiosity; can synthesise multiple disparate data sources into compelling growth strategies - clearly sees ‘the big picture’.
- Must be a strong storyteller. Motivates action through fact-based, inspirational material - verbal, written & presented.
- Has a bias for action, is agile and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrate excellent partner management skills.
- Strong commercial competence: Can easily see how Insights can improve business impact. Thinks holistically about the full commercial journey; is less interested in ‘knowledge for knowledge’ sake but is driven to improve business performance.
- Embraces challenges and risks: Not afraid to stand alone and ‘speak the truth’ regardless of position or level. I

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