Executive Manager - Insights & Analytics

The AMESA Executive Managers role will work primarily with AMESA Middle East (KSA, Gulf and Levant) where his/her role will be focused on driving AMESA Sector level priorities, understanding existing scorecards, delivering insights across our portfolio and brands by leveraging a wide variety of data sources, proactively addressing critical business questions and collaborating with our Sector partners to develop actionable insights to advance our growth agenda.

Primary responsibilities include end-to-end partnership with Sector Leads to deliver on data & analytics for performance tracking and ad-hoc business questions, provide operational visibility to Sector Leads, implement new capabilities to deliver human centric insights, lead key strategic projects, drive cross-functional collaboration and mentor new joinees.

This includes connecting multiple data sources through curated metrics and developing calculated metrics to focus on the key outcome and diagnostic measures.

A critical element of this role is to be able to deliver value-add insights and strategic presentation focused around future Growth for PepsiCo in an agile manner.

The role will have short-term responsibilities of understanding the tools/methodology and multiple data sources which will enable him/her to effectively support the stakeholders and deliver answers to on-going business questions.

The roles scope is ME within AMESA with full delivery responsibility through a team of 2 people for KSA , Gulf and Levant markets

1. Execute against team charter (SLA) for Reporting & Analytics for ME within AMESA

• Execute market, portfolio, and brand level reporting of Marketing KPI performance (utilizing dashboards, templated decks, and reporting tools)
• Execute market, portfolio and brand level reporting for Customer KPI performance (Utilizing dashboards, templated decks and reporting tools)
• Provide business performance explanations, incorporating considerations beyond data into the reporting
• Explain business performance, drivers, and optimization opportunities
• Monitor key channel, customer, competitor and emerging player performance and execute reporting at required intervals
• Provide responses to ad-hoc follow-ups when double-click (additional questions) required with tables/ charts/stories using relevant data

2. Support Reporting Lead/ Sr.Managers/ Managers delivering against information needs articularted by Business Partners; addressing business questions and process requirements

• Lead and deliver against needs of stakeholders, requestors and end service users
• Support processes for output adherence and delivery to agreed scope in line with the agreed timelines, aligned templates and content management
• Responsible for leading and managing multiple priorities; being able to manage deadlines and deliverables
• Monitor and act upon regular feedback inputs from end-users and Business Partners for deliverables
• Flag and monitor any business risks related to delivering the operational output (facilities, IT resources, recruitment efforts)
• Support communication processes with Reporting vertical leaders and Business Partners (project planning, workflow monitoring, quality checks, on-going changes)
• Help Reporting vertical leadership develop and finetune internal Center Of Excellence processes (work-flow mapping, pain-points and bottlenecks management) both related to service delivery and internal center operations
• Identify process improvement opportunities and streamline existing processes based on frequent end-user and Business Partner feedback loop
• Consulting business on key whitespaces present within our Portfolio to optimize/grow the business.

3. Integrated Insights during Business Planning cycles

• Work on building the roadmap of Business growth, identify whitespaces to identify opportunities
• Support in Annual AOP or Situation assessments exercise or Leadership Reporting
• Support simplification, standardization and digitalization efforts (in cooperation with global and sector stakeholders)

• A seasoned Insight or Analytics professional with experience in a leading consumer goods company. 10 years+ experience
• Education: Masters / Graduate in Economics, Mathematics, Marketing or Management
• Language: Fluent English
• Potential to develop leadership and influencing profile in line with Insights Leader of the future definition: Motivates action through fact-based, inspirational material
• Has a track record of identifying and championing new processes for improving fact-based decision making
• Can synthesize multiple, disparate data sources into compelling growth strategies. Formulates a strong POV and can articulate future scenarios and is an exceptional story-teller.
• Strong collaborator; Interested and motivated by working with others. Actively creates and participates in opportunities to co-create solutions across markets or brands; will be willing and able to embrace Responsive Ways of Working
• Can easily see how insights/research learning can improve businesses impact and frames up reporting efforts and opportunities to inform business decisions
• Proven analytics, shopper research experience, consumer insights experience or commercial experience in combination with strong analytical skills
• High degree of familiarity with CPG and Food & Beverage industry data sources, including Nielsen (POS and HH panel), GlobalData, Kantar, etc.
• Deep understanding of CPG industry business performance outputs and causal measures, their relationships, and how to bring business performance insights to life visually
• Proficient with PowerPoint and Excel; including ability to write complex formulas
• Experience with PowerBI or any visualization tool will be a plus
• Exposure to Advance Analytics
• Managerial experience: nice to have
• Operational experience from business servicing sector and/or consulting experience would be a plus .