Manager Insights Junior, Midrand

About Premier FMCG Premier FMCG is at the heart of South Africa’s FMCG industry, delivering trusted, iconic brands across our Bakery, Milling, Confectionery, Home&Personal Care and Culinary divisions. We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and a high-performance growth culture. We empower our people to strive for excellence ensuring that our products and people make a difference in the everyday lives of our consumers.

Job Description Premier FMCG is at the heart of South Africa’s FMCG industry, delivering trusted, iconic brands across our Bakery, Milling, Confectionery, Home&Personal Care and Culinary divisions. We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and a high-performance growth culture. We empower our people to strive for excellence ensuring that our products and people make a difference in the everyday lives of our consumers.

Job Purpose To independently deliver medium sized insight generating projects (from scoping to delivery) to inform and influence the development and alignment of Brand strategy, Category development, Retail&Channel execution, Innovation and growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

To enable fact-based decision making for the internal customers in your project scope, by providing fit for purpose data insights derived from data deep dive projects by:

Understanding the customer requirements and collecting the relevant information

Analyse, synthesising and integrate multiple data sources into one coherent view

Producing insight reports, structured presentations and storytelling. shaping insight-led narratives that answer "what", "why", and "what next"

Participate in project debriefs to assess whether insights supported the attainment of business objectives

Identify continuous improvement practises for similar projects.

Identify growth drivers, whitespace opportunities and emerging needs that can be converted into actions and innovation.

To support strategy execution in the Brand teams by tracking, reporting and providing dashboards aligned to scorecard KPI’s

To support strategy execution in the Sales team by providing reporting and research as needed to improve in-store and channel performance by:

Conducting shopper journey and mission analysis

Developing retail and channel recommendations

Delivering category reviews and retailer-facing insights

Providing inputs into SKU rationalisation and range optimisation

Analysing pricing and promotion performance and translating findings into clear business implications

To support continuous improvement, product development and innovation in the Brand team by:

Participating in medium sized CIP projects,

Delivering and reporting on ad-hoc taste testing projects

Reporting and commissioned data research

To support the creation of a high performing Insights team by:

Participating and collaborating in the cross functional Invocoms

Living the Premier values and demonstrate behaviour

Identifying areas for improvement in existing projects and processes and proposing solutions to these

Building good working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders

To build data insight capability and support talent development in the Insights team by mentoring and coaching graduates on the technology and tools required to perform in this role.

Qualification Requirements

FMCG Insights Analyst of Market researcher 3–5 years Essential

Retail/agency working experience 1-2 years Desirable

Project coordination experience 1-2 years Desirable

Experience Requirements

B. Comm/ BSC degree Essential

Post graduate degree Desirable

Key Outputs

Excell and Power BI Advanced Essential

Data analysis and Insight generation Advanced Essential

Report writing Intermediate Essential

Storytelling and presentation building Intermediate Essential

Coaching, training and mentoring Intermediate Desirable

Cross functional teamwork Intermediate Desirable

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