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

• 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

• 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

• 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