Business & Market Intelligence Expert - Coffee Zone Europe

Position Snapshot

Location: Flexible within Europe
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: 100%
Type of contract: 18 months' defined contract (open to freelancer for 18 month's project base)

What we offer at Nestlé

Flexible work policies in terms of core hours and working from home. Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you!
Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Dynamic international working environment

Position Summary

As a Market & Business Intelligence Expert, part of the Consumer & Marketplace Insight team, you will manage and provide regular reporting and analysis to European Coffee Category Team, leveraging all sources of syndicated data. You will provide business information systems to facilitate use of all consumer data.

This is an opportunity to become a true business partner and establish strong relationship with all aspects of the business (Marketing, Portfolio, Finance). This role is for an experienced Continuous Data Expert who is able to deal with complexity and brings consistency, accuracy and clarity to the table, so that teams can spend more time discussing how to act upon the learnings rather than trying to understand the numbers.

This role is for someone who can work with internal and external stakeholders to provide the widest and deepest possible market view at speed.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don't miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

A Day in the Life of a Market & Business Intelligence Expert

• Provides business information systems to facilitate use of all consumer data (Audit, Panel etc.) for an above market use (Z-EUR)
• Analyzes multiple data sets and creates output that helps inform the business about market dynamics and competitive activities (not limited to Nielsen/IRI, GFK, Kantar but also Euromonitor/ Mintel & other sources)
• Maintains existing techniques/solutions for data collection, management and usage - including PBI, Data models in Excel etc
• Liaises with the markets in a planned and organized way to integrate additional local data and input to improve robustness and representativeness of the analysis
• Interacts with internal Nestle shared services like Analytic Service Line team (ASL) and the Integrated Business Services team, to bring further efficiencies, quality and automation to our reporting systems
• Contributes to management of overall European syndicated research budget and works with local insights managers, NiM and Nestle centrally to optimize contracts (cost and services) on all syndicated data
• Coordinates and implement with research partners the extra-analysis needed and guarantees the quality of processes and analysis
• Communicates effectively throughout the business, brings credibility and objectivity

What will make you successful

• At least 6 years' experience in continuous & syndicated research at FMCG or syndicated data supplier (like Nielsen, IRI)
• Experience with retail and household panel data is a must
• Structural thinking, highly developed analytical skills, ability to work with large amount of data, analyze relationships and interpret numbers
• Experience in integrating data from different sources (including Euromonitor estimates and trends, Brand Health Tracking, E-Commerce data) to have the best possible view of the category and channels
• Clarity of communication, ability to explain complex issues in a simple way and visualize the story behind the numbers in a compelling way
• Experience in building dashboards and excel based reporting tools
• Familiarity with Nielsen GTC or similar database, familiarity with Power BI or a similar platform
• Database Management systems knowledge (basics) would be a plus
• Fluent in English, a second language would be a plus