Analyst Innovation and Strategy Insights MEU

Overview

In this role you translate data into actionable insights that drive growth in the Demand Spaces. You will partner with cross-functional teams to turn consumer and market dynamics into impactful recommendations. You’ll build and govern the data foundation, and create dashboards that inform strategy and activation. You contribute to Chocolate Innovation and category/brand insights, shaping evidence-based decisions at scale. This is an opportunity to influence outcomes across Europe by delivering clear, data-driven narratives.

Responsibilities

• Data collation, storytelling and action-oriented recommendations
• Governance and growth of the Demand Spaces data foundation
• Build and maintain dashboards (Excel, Tableau or other)
• Analyze consumer and market dynamics to understand occasions, need states, product domains, retail dynamics and macro trends
• Lead learning and insights for Chocolate Innovation
• Generate category/brand/innovation insights from multiple data sources
• Assist in research project execution, including data collection, analysis and agency management
• Prepare and present insights with clear data visualizations to stakeholders

Key requirements

• FMGC/CPG experience, preferably in Food & Beverage
• Fluent business English
• Experience with 1–2 markets/categories or brands
• Experience using AI tools to synthesize and analyze data
• Ability to collate data into a coherent story for stakeholders
• Familiar with ad-hoc techniques: product testing, brand positioning, packaging research, NPD, online communities, quantitative and qualitative tools
• Experience with data visualization and dashboards (Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, PyDash)
• Experience analyzing traditional CPG data sources (e.g., Nielsen, Consumer Panel, Promo Data, Euromonitor, Mintel)

• stakeholder relationship building
• effective questioning to shape research briefs
• ability to influence and guide senior stakeholders
• Advanced data integration and visualization
• Forecasting methodologies
• Dashboard creation (Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, PyDash)

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