Manager - Innovation

What the role will provide the candidate

• An overview of a humongous organization i.e. Pepsico. This will help broaden the horizon in F&B category right from snacks to CSDs to juices to breakfast cereals to sparkling water to better for future products and many more
• Opportunity to influence new innovations in the market
• Learn to generate insights faster, better and with agility
• Opportunity to develop newer testing tools
• Develop meta analysis
• Global market exposure

Responsibilities

• Support project-based storytelling and recommendations – provide objective, expert perspective ('so what', 'why' and 'what to do' synthesis) to Sector Insights teams across the globe
• Gain expertise on the Ada tools – support on methology/interpretation enquiries and answer sector, S&T and BU questions and provide analytical support as needed
• Winning stakeholder trust by showing understanding business context
• Support expansion of tools to new markets and categories via developing and maintaining training materials, and collection of necessary inputs to ensure robust setup and adherence to global best practices
• Support Global capabilities team on project admin/setup/data management as necessary
• Generate and evangelise CI capability across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7-8 years experience in quantitative market research, ideally with prior experience in innovation testing (IPSOS / BASES), Brand tracking (Kantar) and Ad testing (Link)
• Existing research methodology knowledge, experience in giving actionable business recommendations based on learnings/synthesis of data
• Good analytic, communication and project management skills. Fluent in English – spoken and written.
• Experience of working with global, regional and local insights professionals a plus