Manager Insights Junior

About Premier FMCG

Premier FMCG is at the heart of South Africas FMCG industry delivering trusted iconic brands across our Bakery Milling Confectionery Home & Personal Care and Culinary divisions. We are driven by innovation collaboration and a high-performance growth culture. We empower our people to strive for excellence ensuring that our products and people make a difference in the everyday lives of our consumers.

Job Purpose

To independently deliver medium sized insight generating projects (from scoping to delivery) to inform and influence the development and alignment of Brand strategy Category development Retail & Channel execution Innovation and growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

1.To enable fact-based decision making for the internal customers in your project scope by providing fit for purpose data insights derived from data deep dive projects by:

• Understanding the customer requirements and collecting the relevant information
• Analyse synthesising and integrate multiple data sources into one coherent view
• Producing insight reports structured presentations and storytelling. shaping insight-led narratives that answer what why and what next
• Participate in project debriefs to assess whether insights supported the attainment of business objectives
• Identify continuous improvement practises for similar projects.
• Identify growth drivers whitespace opportunities and emerging needs that can be converted into actions and innovation.

support strategy execution in the Brand teams by tracking reporting and providing dashboards aligned to scorecard KPIs

support strategy execution in the Sales team by providing reporting and research as needed to improve in-store and channel performance by:

• Conducting shopper journey and mission analysis
• Developing retail and channel recommendations
• Delivering category reviews and retailer-facing insights
• Providing inputs into SKU rationalisation and range optimisation
• Analysing pricing and promotion performance and translating findings into clear business implications

support continuous improvement product development and innovation in the Brand team by:

• Participating in medium sized CIP projects
• Delivering and reporting on ad-hoc taste testing projects
• Reporting and commissioned data research

support the creation of a high performing Insights team by:

• Participating and collaborating in the cross functional Invocoms
• Living the Premier values and demonstrate behaviour
• Identifying areas for improvement in existing projects and processes and proposing solutions to these
• Building good working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders

6.To build data insight capability and support talent development in the Insights team by mentoring and coaching graduates on the technology and tools required to perform in this role.