The Strategic Insights & Analytics team is here to Inspire and Provoke Sustainable Competitive Growth, rooted in Human Insights & Analytics.​ The Head of Strategic Insights & Analytics is a strategic business partner for marketing and sales. This role drives insights & data-driven decision-making by integrating market intelligence, consumer insights, and deep human understanding to inform and challenge business strategy. The Head of Strategic Insights and Analytics ensures all initiatives are grounded in robust insights, supporting sustainable growth and competitive advantage for Danone.  

Strategic Partner: 

• Partners with category & customer teams and across the business to deliver category, portfolio, and brand strategies to identify future category landscape and quantified future sources of growth rooted in consumer, patient and customer insight. 

• Lead key strategic insights projects that span cross categories, transform insights into strategic opportunities, and drive impactful decision-making. 

Leadership and Management 

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of 7 people covering both Consumer/shopper/patient insights & market intelligence. 

• Build internal capabilities in people centricity and strategic thinking. 

Foresights & Insights: 

• Deliver actionable and transferable insight across brands & categories on how to grow brand power, penetration and develop breakthrough creative communication. 

• Getting the organization ready for ‘tomorrow’ through foresights; identifying emerging opportunities for growth, innovation, and competitive advantage.  

Competitive Intelligence and Trend Analysis 

• Track competitor activity, market trends, and emerging disruptions in the FMCG & SN sector. Support with new Market Intelligence team set-up within SIA and the broader organization.  

• Translate external intelligence into strategic implications for Danone and prioritize key war games throughout the year 

We are looking for a future business leader with a passion and track record for leveraging insights, data and analytics to unlock transformational growth. Someone with intellectual curiosity who wakes up excited to design problem solving structures to uncover new innovative opportunities. Someone with a belief in full-potential thinking, who wants to turn complicated data and insights into inspiring business opportunities. Someone with a passion for learning and leading organizational change. The ideal candidate is business-minded, consumer/shopper/customer-centric, self-motivated, strategic thinker who is driven for results. 

• Strategic thinking, future oriented vision, game-changing mindset and thrive in a fast-paced environment. 

• Expert in insights mining and ability to turn complex data and multiple sources of information into sharp actionable insights for business impact. 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills, with ability to tailor to various audiences and a strong bias for action 

• Trusted partner with a demonstrated ability to effectively interface and build alignment with individuals and teams at multiple levels within a company, including the ability to challenge the status quo; direct experience with senior executives preferred 

• A demonstrated track record of end-to-end project management, including start-to-finish project ownership 

• Strong people leadership capabilities and experience in creating a high performing team. 

At Danone, we guarantee that you can simply be yourself. We believe that it's up to you to define the way you work, to develop yourself, to progress. With us, you'll work in an exciting, complex and challenging environment. This is how you will create new opportunities! 

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Your next steps 

It’s simple – hit the “apply” button now.  

You have until December 2nd to apply, so waste no time! In order to comply with GDPR we can’t process your personal data without your given consent, so please apply directly via this website.  

Good luck, we can’t wait to meet you! 

* all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status