Strategic Insights Manager, Italy & Albania Fo Milano

Strategic Insights Manager, Italy & Albania Fo
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

The role is accountable for identifying powerful consumer, shopper & customer insights and turning them into a source of competitive advantage.

It is a critical role to share the voice of consumer, shopper and customer in all key decision-making forums and work collaboratively with the network of OU functions, Bottlers, PS and external partners.

What You'll Do for Us:

- ** Identify business **opportunities** & "where to play"**, looking holistically into consumer, shopper, customer, competitor and industry insights

- ** E**ngage key decision-makers around **the opportunities**, lead or participate in cross-functional projects to develop respective plans

- ** Lead** the **local insights** agenda, **collaborating with European functions, bottlers and external partners.

Proactively define opportunities and anticipate business needs.

- ** Co**ntribute to** performance management agenda**, developing the narrative on performance, leading root-causes analyses and communicating effectively to influence key stakeholders

- ** Contribute to capabilities development** in the broader network team

Qualifications & Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business or Behavioral Science.

- Desirable Post Graduate qualification.

- Ideally a background in Management Consulting of FMCG (including Category Management, Shopper Analytics, Market Research)

- Essential experience: 6+ years of Business and/or functional experience in Research/Strategy/Analytics related areas.

Soft skills:

- Strategic thinking: integrate diverse business insights and connecting the dots to develop holistic approaches and solutions

- Excellent analytical skills, Problem framing and -solving: ability to structure and coordinate / lead cross functional complex analysis, initiatives, or efforts.

- Prioritization: prioritize through a pragmatic fact-based approach, handling trade-offs, balancing immediate and long-term priorities.

- Stakeholder management: identify, influence, align and engage key stakeholders - across various functions and seniority levels

- Synthesis and storytelling: Communicate with, influence and convince senior stakeholders through a structured, fact base and action-oriented storytelling.

**Skills

Storytelling; Influencing; Competitive Analysis; Strategic Thinking; Relationship Building; Business Insights; Communication; Stakeholder Management

**Our Purpose and Growth Culture**:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference.

We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what's possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves.

We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve.

We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years.

Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.