CONAGRA

Director, Marketing Insights & Analytics

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Chicago, IL

Job Description

The Role:

As the Director, Marketing Insights & Analytics you will identify and champion evidence-based marketing principles. Reporting to the Senior Director, you will ensure behavioral science and evidence-based demand principles are applied across all marketing touchpoints including Packaging Graphics Design, Communications (Advertising), and eCommerce. You use measurement tools to find lessons learned to further the effectiveness of Conagra's Marketing investments, and create awareness of evidence-based marketing best practices across the Conagra enterprise. You will work with the Marketing, Brand, and Demand Science (Insights & Analytics) teams to integrate and apply evidence-based marketing principles to Conagra's marketing strategies and execution.

What You'll Do:

* Challenges industry norms and knowledge as it pertains to Marketing effectiveness
* Identify evidence-based Marketing principles that maximize effectiveness and return on investment
* Champion application of principles across all Marketing touch points and at all levels of the Conagra organization
* Improve Marketing effectiveness and Demand Science capabilities and uncover new capabilities aligned with our goals
* Create an agile, evidence-based behavioral science approach to identify and determine Marketing opportunities; develop a learning plan, execute and communicate learning and best practices in simple, easy to understand principles and frameworks
* Establish yourself as a strategic partner to Marketing Senior Leadership team, Brand Management leaders, and peers across the Demand Science team
* Establish important strategic Marketing opportunities to be addressed in annual operating and strategic plans, serving as consumer expert and informed Marketing and partner
* Lead integration of consumer and marketplace trends; ensure relevant trends are acted upon in Marketing strategies and branded executions
* Determine and promote the sourcing and interpretation of marketplace and consumer learning to arrive at evidence-based Marketing strategies and refined executions for CAG brands
* Drive adoption of a comprehensive range of consumer data and research methodologies, continuous improvement in techniques and cost, and finds new tools to increase effectiveness
* Help promote an end-to-end integrated commercialization strategy and process
* Implement a modernized, exposure and purchase data-based approach to measure the impact of Marketing investments on the business, and promote data-backed decision making and optimization
* Lead a team of experienced managers to champion identification and application of Marketing principles

What You'll Bring:

* Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience or Master's degree with 8+ years of experience producing high quality, well-regarded data and consumer insights analyses
* Consumer Packaged Goods experience preferred
* Experience with a broad array of Marketing disciplines including Packaging Graphics Design, Paid, Owned and Earned Media, Advertising Content, Brand Communications, and eCommerce
* Experience translating data and insights into applicable recommendations resulting in tangible results
* Project Management skills to ensure demand science resources are leveraged and applied to the most important business issues and opportunities
* Demonstrates Skills of the Future - adaptable, collaborative, influential, data-driven, critical and expansive thinking, functional depth & expertise
* Knowledge of multiple consumer data and learning tools
* Experience working with multiple third-party suppliers ensuring they are aligned to company's key deliverables and driving to impactful outcomes
* Well-versed in explaining difficult concepts and opportunities in simple, applicable business terms, and at all levels of an organization including executive leadership
* Management experience with demonstrated ability to motivate and develop a team



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Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

* Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
* Wealth: great salaries, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
* Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
* Balance: paid-time off , flexible work-schedules

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team thats passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye, Marie Callender's, Banquet, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, and Vlasic, and emerging brands, including Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP, Duke's, Earth Balance, Gardein, and Frontera.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.

CONAGRA

Chicago, IL

Conagra Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company in North America. The company operates through Grocery & Snacks, Refrigerated & Frozen, International, and Foodservice segments. The Grocery & Snacks segment primarily offers shelf stable food products in various retail channels in the United States. The Refrigerated & Frozen segment provides temperature controlled food products in various retail channels in the United States. The International reporting segment offers food products in various temperature states in retail and foodservice channels outside of the United States. The Foodservice segment offers food products, including meals, entrees, sauces, and various custom-manufactured culinary products packaged for sale to restaurants and other foodservice establishments in the United States. Conagra Brands, Inc. sells its products under the Marie Callender's, Reddi-wip, Hunt's, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, Orville Redenbacher's, Alexia, Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP, Blake's, Duke's, Frontera, Banquet, Chef Boyardee, and BIGS brand names.

The company was formerly known as ConAgra Foods, Inc. and changed its name to Conagra Brands, Inc. in November 2016. Conagra Brands, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.