The Opportunity
Morgan McKinley has partnered with a FMCG organisation where an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Category & Insights Manager to join an international Growth & Strategy team of a rapidly expanding global consumer brand.
The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting international growth by analysing commercial performance, developing reporting and providing insights that help shape business decisions across multiple markets.
Reporting to a Senior Manager, the role will suit an analytical and commercially minded individual who enjoys working with data and translating findings into clear, practical recommendations.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Performance & Analytics
- Consolidate and analyse a range of commercial data, including distributor, retail, sales and e-commerce information.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and regular reporting using Excel and Power BI.
- Produce accurate analysis and insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews.
- Monitor market and commercial performance, identifying key trends and opportunities.
Growth & Strategy
- Work with senior stakeholders to turn data into clear commercial insights and recommendations.
- Support assessments of potential new markets and monitor the performance of new product or market launches.
- Conduct detailed analysis across areas such as pricing, promotional activity, distribution and sales performance.
- Identify the key factors influencing market and category performance.
Stakeholder & Project Management
- Work closely with teams across Commercial, Marketing and Finance to ensure data and insights support business decisions.
- Contribute to international business reviews, commercial meetings and launch discussions.
- Coordinate timelines and deliverables across reporting and analytical projects.
- Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across different functions and markets.
Category & Consumer Insights
- Support category analysis, competitor reviews and wider commercial projects.
- Use category insights to provide context around market performance and identify opportunities for growth.
- Work alongside consumer insights teams to connect customer and consumer understanding with commercial results.
- Help incorporate category and consumer insights into business reviews and market assessments.
Experience & Skills
- 3-4 years' experience within FMCG, CPG, commercial analytics, business insights or a related area.
- Strong analytical skills with experience working with retail, distributor or market data.
- Experience using Nielsen, Circana/IRI or similar market data platforms.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with Power BI.
- Exposure to SQL or other business intelligence tools would be advantageous.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to link data and analysis to business performance.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex information in a clear and engaging way.
- Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Comfortable working collaboratively across different functions and geographical markets.
- Experience within category management would be beneficial.
- Previous international or multi-market experience is desirable.
The Ideal Candidate
This role would suit an analytically strong professional who is commercially curious and enjoys understanding what is driving business performance. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with large datasets but, importantly, will be able to turn analysis into a clear story and meaningful recommendations for stakeholders.
