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If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestlé is the place for you. Nestlé USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestlé’s presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.

We’re determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.

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POSITION SUMMARY:
We are embarking on an exciting journey of transformation- transforming how we think, how we do things, how we run our business, and how we impact our world. We are rewriting some of the old rules and embracing a fresh way of working as we aspire to reach our maximum potential and achieve our boldest goals.

This position’s role is to use high impact insights to influence and drive strategic and tactical actions to win in the marketplace. The Manager, Shopper Consulting will be a strong voice of market intelligence and shopper insights in the organization, with superior skills in employing syndicated data and custom research to build impactful points-of-view. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leadership & Consulting

• Serve as the customer and shopper “navigator” by providing thought leadership to Sales and Marketing by providing a holistic view of the shopper.
• (+/-40% of time) Drive initiative on insight generation from syndicated research/market data, (e.g. Nielsen POS, IRI, panel data, shopper loyalty) to help develop stronger understanding of key growth opportunities and what is required to win.
  • Help business understand what is happening in the category and marketplace (with retailers/channels), to help them prioritize where their interests lie in understanding the ‘why behind the what’.    
  • Nurture the mastery for business knowledge through secondary research, on the same level with stakeholder teams.
  • Help curate a new level of analytical expertise on secondary data within the Marketing group.
• (+/- 60% of time)  Drive initiative on insight generation from custom research to help drive more of the 'why' understanding and evaluate strategies for winning with the shopper at key retailers.
  • The ‘why’ is understood through the primary, custom research with qualitative and quantitative studies.
    • Frame, Design, Analyze and Present studies
    • Help drive strategies to win at customer by gathering deeper insights on the shopper, customer frame of reference, barriers/enablers along the path to purchase   
• Create shopper and retailer empathy/understanding across the business team by clearly articulating and embedding existing understanding and identifying actionable learning needs.
• Use transparent, strategy-aligned criteria to assess the value of projects to the business.
• Collaborate across the Market Intelligence function to leverage our scale and increase speed via effectiveness (best practices internally and externally, integrated knowledge) and efficiencies (standardized, consistent across NUSA, optimized cost base).
• Elevate/redefine medium-value requests and eliminate or outsource low-value requests.
• Tap people’s natural motivations to share insights with peers and increase the “portability” of insights to enable wider sharing.
• Performance will be measured on the ability to change thinking, influence business strategy and decisions.

Develop Scalable Insights 

• Effectively communicate and embed learning to increase the impact of insights into action by making them relevant to the business strategy.
• Add value to knowledge sharing by connecting the dots about the shopper and retailer to show cumulative knowledge.
• Proactively pursue opportunities for impact by systematically seeking and exploiting opportunities to leverage research/learning on high-value topics unseen or ignored by business partners and use influence to activate those opportunities.
• Focus on establishing business partners’ decisions and aligning the research agenda to them, then tailor communications of research findings to support upcoming decisions.
• Create and communicate insights-based recommendations that provide opportunities to impact the shopper decision in the store and provide value to both NUSA and the customer. 
• Identify the essential “business drivers” by finding the common ground between strategic priorities and the most commonly asked about topics.

Budget & Vendor Management

• Manage projects within approved budget.
• Provide suppliers with access to all information available to ensure intimacy with NUSA.
• Leverage strategic assets to create a non-monetary, reciprocally valuable relationship with suppliers, motivating above-and-beyond support and true partnership.

 
REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL: 

• B.A./B.S. in Marketing, Economics, Psychology, or Sociology required. Relevant Master's degree or MBA strongly preferred. 

EXPERIENCE: 

• Minimum of five (5) years of marketing research experience in a consumer packaged goods company with at least two (2) years in Shopper Insights or Retail/Customer-facing role.
• Candidate must possess a strong drive for results with a passion for the consumer and marketing. 
• Possess a business-owner vs. researcher mindset, being motivated and vested in big picture impact of research and insights.

SKILLS: 
Functional Competencies

• Project Execution – Managing budget, suppliers, research execution, and adhering to interim and final deadlines
• Methodology Expertise – Selecting appropriate, diverse methodologies in designing research studies and trying new things when appropriate
• Self-Development – Seeking opportunities to self-educate proactively (new methodologies and techniques, business acumen, and general research and business news)
• Insight Generation – Inductive reasoning, creativity, risk tolerance, and business judgement
• Knowledge Agenda Development– Identify broad themes or learning gaps for future  research based on accumulated knowledge
• Communication – Tailoring content and purposeful communication
• Influence – Active listening, negotiation, persuasion and courage
• Business Problem Solving – Diagnosis and framing the problem, business knowledge and acumen, recommendation development
• Consumer Empathy – Can articulate basic behaviors and motivations of consumers 
• Strategic Thinking – Creates short-term marketing tactics that support long-term strategies and brand vision
• Brand Knowledge & Advocacy – Role-models brand expertise, eagerly engaging real consumers to optimize brand strategy and plans 

Nestlé Leadership Framework Key Competencies

• Proactive Cooperation
• Impact & Convince Others
• Curiosity
• Results Focus
• Innovation

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