GBfoods is hiring Consumer Insight Specialist

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GBfoods is hiring Consumer Insight Specialist

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GBfoods, a Global culinary service provider is looking to recruit to fill position of Consumer Insight Specialist in their Ghana branch in Accra.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Support the CI Manager to drive analysis, interpretation and integration of research results from different sources not restricted to Retail Audit, Brand Health Tracker and Household Panel to deliver business case needs.
  • Conduct regular business reviews to codify various monthly sources and make sense of the trends for the business unit.
  • Champion & drive world class understanding of consumer attitudes, motivations and trends that can be leveraged to grow our brands
  • Build an understanding of the consumer that is based on issues & opportunities, rigorous and grounded, compelling/easy to understand and proactive & timely.
  • Assess consumer, shopper and retail opportunity identification that are currently untapped by the business unit leveraging research in order to identify new volume and profit growth areas.
  • Support development and implementation of brand strategy and communication by facilitating a deep understanding of the consumers.
  • Deliver Measurement and Evaluation for key advertising and promotional projects
  • Support the development of BU Business Plans and Strategic Management Reviews for categories and brands
  • Lead innovation research including product and concept tests.
  • Determine appropriate market research methodologies and techniques by leveraging input from research suppliers and internal experts to derive optimal research protocols
  • Work with research agencies to drive optimal research quality and integrity and deliver innovative solutions.
  • Lead the development of research capabilities and understanding within the brand team.

Requirements and Key competencies

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Market Research, Marketing or other business-related degree.
  • Work experience: 3-4 years of market research experience, preferably both on the agency and multi-national consumer goods (preferably on a European company).
  • Technical skills:
    • Fluency in oral and written in English.
    • Experience in both quantitative and qualitative research techniques.
    • Understanding of the following research protocols/methodologies; Retail Audit, Pricing Research, NPD research, Positioning research, Media/Advertising Research.
    • Problem Analysis/Problem Solving and Strategic Decision Making with ability to discover insights, package and present them in a way that compels the organization to act on them.
    • Forecasting based on consumer behavior
    • Understanding of digital research methodologies
    • Strong quantitative skills with advanced usage of Microsoft Excel, Statistical Software like SAS, SPSS etc. and other tabulation software.
    • Proactively defines and communicates opportunities for growth for the market, category or brand
    • Seeks out deep consumer understanding and insight that drives competitive consideration and conversion activity.
    • Ensures learning’s from measurement and evaluation are applied to drive growth throughout the business.
    • Project Management – Experience defining the scope and issues for research/analytic initiatives, developing and executing project plans and managing multiple tasks simultaneously, experience leading cross-functional project teams.

Interpersonal Skills

  • Interpersonal Skills:
  • Action oriented self-starter who embraces ambiguity
  • Strong Communication and Interpersonal Skills – Ability to structure and deliver presentations clearly, crisply, and compellingly. Excellent verbal and written skills.
  • Continual improvement – Always looking for ways to improve – both individually and organizationally.
  • Dynamic individual able switch objectives with the changing direction of the organization.
  • Must have worked most of his/her career in a collaborative working situation, in which different viewpoints from a range of stakeholders need to be considered to arrive at a productive solution.
  • Confidence and maturity to work independently
  • International experience is a plus.

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