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Senior Director, Human Insights, Africa
Position Overview
The human Insights Senior Director leads the Africa Operating Unit Human Insights team and the development & implementation of the Africa Operating Unit Human Insights agenda, while connecting and integrating it to the global Human Insights network. This position requires a transformative, inspiring, and visionary leader able to set the course of the Human Insights function energizing the Insights team and broader network to become trusted advisors and business partners with other Marketing functions.
What You’ll Do For Us
Human insights & trends
- Owns and drives the Insights learning plan and human insights activities, comprising Future consumer and shopper tensions and trends, application of behavioral science, consumer segment, cohort and culture understanding.
- Generate future-back human insights and develop a deep understanding of human behaviors, mindset, values and trends
- Applies disciplines of Growth Behavioral Science, Brand Edge (Segmentation)
- Perform consumer trend analysis and other consumer analytics delivers to holistic answers to business questions utilizing support from Platform Services
Consumer insights (categories) and Shopper insights (channels)
- Leads development of insights learning plan, including Identifying key insights-driven opportunities and threats by category and channel
- Define insights protocols and deliver insights to Categories for brand strategy
- Development of creative strategy insights in support of business and creative brief, early and late-stage creative development, consumer co-creation, evaluation, and testing.
- Devise, manage and deliver insights to Categories to support launch of new regional and local brands, driving the innovation pipeline, development of visual identity for regional and local brands and development marketing campaigns for regional & local brands
- Development of innovation opportunity identification, concept development and assessment, product, and packaging development, early and late-stage consumer co-creation, evaluation and testing.
- Application of product-concept testing protocols for innovation projects
- Devise, manage and deliver insights to integrated marketing to support package design, design guidance and standards and apply thinking marketing around E2E consumer journey (Experience Orchestration and Experience Consistency)
- Leads development of shopper understanding with focus on key Operating Unit channels and shopper journey. Generate key shopper insights by channel
- Collaborate with Integrated Marketing to understand and incorporate channel/consumer and consumption insights
- Define and action testing protocols for Integrated Marketing campaigns
Ad Hoc Research
- Perform ad hoc research (e.g., for global campaigns and innovation projects)
- Function network contribution, share insights from Africa Operating Unit and learnings (including from successful localized campaigns), capabilities development, and apply best practices from the global Human Insights network
- Provide insights consult support for related Africa Operating Unit functions
Role Requirement
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or related fields
- 12+ years of senior leadership experience including Business Strategy, Consumer Insights, Market Research, Analysis, Shopper insights, preference for additional Marketing, Innovation, experience
- Solid experience and know-how in application of tech-based approaches in Consumer and/or Shopper Insights (Aware of and experienced in the latest applications of machine learning/AI in market research).
- FMCG/Consumer goods background an added advantage
- Business Strategy background an added advantage
- Able to conceptualize frameworks and research models for diverse marketing and consumer insights problems.
- Comfortable with both large amounts of data, and qualitative insight, iterations with research and technology vendors and able to design effective and efficient insight programs to address business questions.
- Ability to orchestrate multiple stakeholders, delivering the highest priority and enterprise-wide insight solutions, in a holistic fashion.
- Ability to analyze complex issues and bring together multiple concepts across functions to define the strategic opportunities for the business.
- Knowledge of market research techniques, insights approaches, trends, latest industry thinking, holistic analysis and business questions and resolution, consumer co-creation, communities and digital networks
Skills:
Human Insights
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.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
