Manager Insights and Analytics

Job Title: Manager, Insights & Analytics – Marketing (Food Industry)

Location: Evanston, Chicago ILL

Department: Marketing

Reports To: Director of Insights & Analytics

Role Summary:

This is a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a purpose-led organization, join a high-performing team to drive an iconic brand, and make a difference.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a strategic Manager of Insights & Analytics to lead the development of data-driven insights that power business strategy and transformative growth.

This role reports into the Director of Insights & Analytics and is a key role as a part of the Marketing Organization – to drive Insights & Analytics initiatives leveraging wide variety of data and analytics tools both internal and external. The chosen candidate will partner closely with the Marketing Organization to drive market research projects, as well as to help diagnose performance to uncover growth opportunities/identify challenges in a fast-paced, consumer-centric food business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Learning Plans: Work closely with Marketing Teams as well as the Director for Consumer Insights & Analytics to identify key gaps & opportunities for consumer research projects to feed into creating a comprehensive learning plan.
• Project Management: Design and execute custom qualitative & quantitative primary research. Deliver Insights projects to ensure that the projects stay on track and deliver results in a timely manner working with the budget constraints. 
• Breakthrough Insights: Interpret consumer data to understand preferences, motivations and behaviors to represent the voice of the consumer in cross-functional team meetings and decision making. 
• Performance Analysis & Measurement: Identify and explain key drivers of business performance, including market trends, consumer behavior, competitive dynamics, and marketing effectiveness.
• Vendor Management: Manage research partner relationships, roadmaps, and capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in marketing analytics, consumer insights, or business intelligence, preferably within the Food/CPG, sectors
• Understanding of syndicated data sources (e.g., Nielsen, IRI, SPINS) and their application to brand and category strategy
• Keen business acumen and ability to connect data to commercial outcomes
• Good written and oral communication skills, and experience presenting to large groups
• Strong knowledge and proven application of a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research initiatives and methodologies to solve business objectives, including survey development and execution, segmentation, advertising effectiveness, panel research, ethnography, focus groups, brand tracking, competitive intelligence, etc.
• Well organized with the ability to manage multiple projects against deadlines
• Experience managing research vendors to deliver high-quality work on time and within budget. 

What You’ll Gain:

• A high-impact role at the intersection of data, strategy, and growth
• The opportunity to shape the future of a dairy brand in double digit growth in the US
• A collaborative, purpose-driven culture that values innovation and insight
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities

Company Background:

Ornua is a leading dairy co-operative which sells premium dairy products globally on behalf of its Member Co-operatives, Ireland’s dairy processors and, in turn, Irish dairy farmers. 

Ornua has revenues of €3.4 billion and is supported by a global team of approximately 2,800 employees. The Group operates as a commercial organisation across 10 business units, including 12 production facilities located in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa. 

The commercial organisation is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua’s consumer brands including Ireland’s most successful food export: Kerrygold. Consumer markets are served by production facilities in Ireland, Germany and the UK and by in-market Sales & Marketing Teams in Asia, Germany, Ireland, MEA, Poland, Spain, rest of Europe and North and Latin America. 

It also manages the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products, the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufacturing and foodservice customers globally, and the implementation of de-risking and trading strategies to manage market volatility. These activities are supported by production facilities and in-market teams in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa. 

The Kerrygold business in North America is a powerhouse within Ornua, with an iconic and beloved brand and a highly-engaged, highly inclusive, and high-performing team that, together, have delivered double-digit, profitable growth on the business for the last twenty years.

Total Rewards at Ornua Foods North America will include a competitive salary and annual bonus scheme. The following are a list of other benefits you can avail of: low employee contribution for Medical, Vision and Dental benefits cover; 401k; Paid Time Off; Maternity Leave (20 weeks); Parental Leave; Flexible working; Fitness Reimbursement; Charity Donation; Complimentary Kerrygold products; Free car parking and secure bicycle storage; Free healthy snacks and drinks in the office; Reward & Recognition program; Volunteering opportunities; Service Anniversary Awards. The salary range for this role is $114,000 to $140,800 and the candidate will be offered a salary commensurate with their level of experience.

Ornua Foods North America Inc is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.