Insights Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - Performer Recruitment and Consulting

Description

Introduction

A distributor specializing in premium alcohol brands is seeking an Insights Manager to join their dynamic team. The vacancy calls for someone who shows collaborative and leadership-based teamwork, who is professional in their approach, and who is inspired through creativity to fill this exiting role.

The role is best suited to someone with 5+ years in an insights, analytics, research or similar function, who has a proven track record of delivering insights and data-centric workstreams to effect change, answer questions and guide strategic decision making. This is an analytical thinker with a real passion for numbers; someone who enjoys working in a dynamic and growing team, that takes pride in finding new ways to drive growth and change through data and insights.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Excellent broad statistical, analytical and data visualization skills
• Storytelling through numbers
• Ability to draw on multiple information sources to unearth the real drivers of growth and performance, and extract value creating and actionable insights
• Track record of building reports, dashboard and presentations that convey findings and key recommendations
• Formulating considered recommendations that are grounded in data findings and can guide critical decision making; producing convincing arguments to garner buy-in to findings and recommendations
• Experienced at building KPIs, and tracking and measuring brand and/or business performance and ROI
• Project management of key insights projects and workstreams; formulate concise objectives, and deliver against those objectives
• Analytical and strategic thinker in every task and workstream, to ensure you optimize the outcome, rather than just answer the question asked
• Experience working with Marketing and Commercial teams to support and advise, as well as drive meaningful insights-centric thinking
• Good consumer understanding - able to ground thinking in real-life consumer behaviours and trends
• Experience working with consumer and market research, either through project management and/or involvement in research workstreams, such as consumer and market segmentation, brand tracking, price elasticity, ad testing, and/or other similar research focus areas
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, written and presentation
• Experienced at engaging with senior management, and comfortable to challenge and be challenged
• Sound interpersonal skills and a collaborative attitude
• A team player who can also work independently
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to scope and drive new areas of work while taking initiative
• Workflow prioritization
• Endurance and ability to work under pressure, and in an evolving, fast-paced environment
• Meticulous attention to detail, with a proactive work ethic
• Possess the flexibility and learning agility, required to work across a variety of information sources and data visualization platforms
• A mindset for deadline driven delivery and possesses the dexterity to work within a dynamic environment

Qualifications & Experience:

• BCom or BSc Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or equivalent Requirements:
• 5+ years of experience in an Insights, or similar role
• Beverage alcohol industry experience preferable, FMCG experience at minimum
• Proficient on a variety of data visualization tools, such as; Tableau, Pyramid, Power BI, Qlik, etc.
• Exceptional Excel and PowerPoint skills