Manager, Insights - Pet Portfolio

Business Unit Overview
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles 'n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.
Brand
Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We're always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we're growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That's where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities
Overview
In this role, you will lead development and execution of learning plans to support a segment of the Pet Business at Post Consumer Brands.
The successful candidate will work with a team of human-centric professionals to provide holistic perspective on the brands in your area of responsibility. You will uncover deep insights about consumer behavior and generate grounded and inspiring strategic recommendations. You will keep the voice of the consumer at the center of marketing, innovation, design, portfolio, and category and provide valuable perspective.
As a forward-thinker, you will have strong partnerships with brand, innovation, and communications teams, as well as cross-functionally within the greater Insights team. Strong partnership, communication and prioritization skills are required to build productive working relationships with cross-functional teams and external partners.
In This Role You Will

• Design and manage qualitative and quantitative consumer research projects for brands; connect the dots to generate holistic and actionable insights grounded in consumer knowledge and understanding of business context.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to serve as the voice of the consumer.
• Become an expert on the knowledge estate/past research to leverage the full research ecosystem.
• Bring together actionable insights and data to tell holistic stories to inform key cross-functional communication and decisions.
• Understand the range of methods and approaches to stay at the forefront of insights
• Collaborate across Insights to further thought leadership, ongoing education, and clear communication.
• Positively contribute to a collaborative and unique, Post Consumer Brands culture

Qualifications
Education

• Bachelor's degree required, MBA is a plus

Experience:

• 5+ years of insights experience (including marketing, innovation, agency, and supplier)
• Preferred: Experience in consumer packaged goods, ideally Pet

Other Characteristics:

• Strong strategic aptitude and custom research expertise across a variety of methods (e.g., human centric, ethnography, JTBD, innovation qualification, packaging, marketing communications/advertising through live and virtual qual and quantitative research).
• Strong partner and supplier management skills.
• Experience in synthesizing data together across multiple sources and teams (primary and secondary sources) to create actionable insights and holistic stories.
• Experience working on foundational consumer insights and translating them to brand, innovation, and communication strategy.
• Experience with developing learning plans and budget allocation

Work Location:

• In-office (Lakeville, MN) with a hybrid schedule.

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