At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

Sr. Director, NA Insights & Commercial Analytics

The following position is is open in Illinois, United States.

What makes this a great opportunity?

• Impact: Lead a well-established and respected function and capability within the North American and Suntory organization
• Leadership/People Management: Build and lead a team, providing vision to team structure and capabilities; ensuring we identify and recruit the right people in the right roles to be successful.
• Strategy Development: Drive high-impact, high-profile strategic projects to deliver regional growth aspirations utilizing insights and analytics and translating insights into clear implications and stories to rally the organization.
• Complex Problem-Solving: Opportunity to structure clear processes and develop strategic models to address ambiguous challenges.
• Senior-Leader Exposure: Regular engagement with, and presentation to senior level audience, including the North America and Global Executive Leadership Teams. Including the Global CEO and the President of North America.
• Stakeholder Management: Influences every business function (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, IT) by providing insights and analytics solutions and recommendations on varied business questions.
• Regional Perspective: Requires understanding of market dynamics and drivers of growth across the US market.

• 12-15 years of experience building and leading insights & analytics teams including formal supervisory duties
• Relevant Bachelor's degree required - Master's degree a plus
• Industry experience in CPG or AlcBev is strongly preferred
• Analytical and strategic mindset to think about the near- and longer-term team and evolution of analytics and insights capabilities
• High degree of intellectual curiosity and creative insight, coupled with a drive for actionable, tangible impact on the organization
• Experience setting, aligning, and delivering an insights agenda / learning plan and accountability, and ability to ensure agenda is delivered with excellence.
• Team player with ability to work well in a fast paced, unstructured entrepreneurial environment
• Demonstrated experience in managing teams / leader of leaders
• Extensive Client-side experience in leading CPG companies a must
• Solid understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and suppliers with a broad range of research techniques (including new to the world approaches)
• Experience leading custom research across a variety of methodologies and business applications
• Proven experience in synthesizing information from multiple resources including syndicated data and analysis
• Deep experience utilizing predictive analytics and predictive modeling, with experience in statistical analysis and modeling, e.g. causal inference, significance testing, regression analysis, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in creating scalable, repeatable processes
• Proficiency in reporting / analytics tools (e.g., Excel, PowerBI) is required
• Experience with syndicated sources (e.g. Nielsen, IRI, Panel data, MRI etc.) and ability to generate category or brand insights and to form recommendations
• Strong communication and presentation skills with proven track record of using insights to influence executives and colleagues
• Experience developing, aligning, and owning a team research budget