VP Strategic Insights and Engagements

Vice President, Integrated Insights & Acceleration

About the Role: We are seeking a dynamic, highly analytical Vice President of Integrated Insights & Acceleration to drive insight delivery across our segments and act as a strategic transformation partner. This hands-on, executive-level role leads the integration of consumer, shopper, market, category, and performance insights across the business - drawing from a variety of internal and external data sources - turning data into actionable intelligence that fuels client impact. The role also partners with leadership and key functions to drive the transformation and modernization of the broader insights and analytics strategy.

You'll work at the intersection of insights, analytics, data, and technology - accelerating a function that's business-embedded, client-impacting, and becoming future-ready. The ideal candidate is both a visionary and an executor: equally comfortable influencing executives, building trust, leading teams, developing tools, partnering with technical teams and solution providers, deploying AI-enabled technologies, and delivering compelling insights at a fast pace, driving our business forward.

Key Responsibilities:

Drive our integrated analytics strategy, collaborating across business units towards data-driven insights that propel our client and customers business forward. Develop ways of working that ensure insight unlock at fast pace across business units.

Lead key strategic partnerships with service providers, establishing collaboration and value creation roadmap, driving successful solution implementation and usage. Guide internal alignment and successful implementation of new tools and approaches.

Partner with internal technology teams in developing and implementing products and solutions that drive insight efficiencies, increased teammate productivity, value for our clients and customers and competitive advantage. Evaluate and implement AI-driven tools and next-generation insight technologies.

Champion high-exposure executive insight engagements, demonstrating a hands-on and collaborative approach across different company departments, demonstrating outstanding story and collateral crafting.

Lead a group of associates supporting analytic and insight delivery for different business units and support functions, including business development, client management, and commercial teams - translating research and data into clear, actionable strategies that support sales, marketing, innovation, and client teams, informing their strategy and strengthening partnerships.

Collaborate on RFPs, pitch support, and commercial proposals-translating insights into differentiated, data-backed value propositions.

Lead a unified insights agenda spanning consumer behavior, shopper journeys, category performance, and commercial opportunity areas. Build a high-performing insights and analytics practice with deep fluency in CPG, retail, and e-commerce. Embed insights into business rhythms, go-to-market plans, and strategic planning processes

Act as a thought partner to the SVP to co-lead the redesign and harmonization of the insights function's operating model, tools, and organizational design. Champion a culture of insight-led thinking, curiosity, and data fluency across the organization.

Who You Are

12+ years of combined experience in Analytics, Consumer Insights, Category Management, or Commercial Strategy, Management Consulting.
• Proven experience delivering high-impact insights supporting client management, business development or revenue generation functions.
• Strong executive presence and ability to collaborate across C-suite and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of CPG, Retail, B2B, and e-commerce dynamics.
• Experience evaluating and deploying AI-powered tools and innovative analytics platforms
• Track record of functional transformation, operating model redesign, and team development
• Comfortable in fast-paced, PE-backed type environments with high expectations for impact, speed, and value creation.

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

Business Development

• Drive, develop, and work to deliver Pitch and Account Strategy in partnership with Customer and Business Development Leaders
• Drive Agency positioning to ensure storylines continue to evolve.
• Thought Leadership through white papers, prominence, etc.
• Partner with Planning and Insights team to ensure that all client and customer responses are squarely grounded in business and industry insights
• Create Best Practices on Pitch, Account, and Customer Development responses
• Partner with Business Development Leaders and internal business segments to drive integrated pitch responses
• Actively develop thought leadership content and opportunities for the Division
• Develop and implement strategic business plans which formally identify additional business opportunities and specific ways to strengthen our service delivery with our clients

Team Leadership

• Responsible for cultivating an environment where proactive, creative, and best demonstrated knowledge sharing is de rigueur amongst team
• Lead, manage, coach, and hold accountable any direct reports to ensure highly effective and efficient processes and/or team collaboration
• Oversee management of staff priorities, workload balancing/utilization, employee recognition/rewards, and routine staff professional development to keep turnover at a minimum and staff morale high

Client and Customer Management

• Ensure all work product is delivered on-time, on-scope, and delivers measurable value that maximizes client satisfaction
• Routinely nurture and cultivate key stakeholder relationships, ensuring they have proactive visibility to the capabilities, tools, and resources available to them across the Company enterprise.
• Consistently and actively develop and nurture relationships with clients and customers, and respond to their needs through insight creation and delivery
• Be an advocate of the RAVE process, working to reinforce the importance of value creation measurement with clients, customers, and associates

Achieve P&L Targets

• Manage business unit resources to deliver EBIDTA objective

Forecasting

• Ability to anticipate future market changes so that resources can be adjusted accordingly; including planning for new revenue growth as well as customer shifts/consolidations

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports
- Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources

Indirect Reports
- May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements

• Travel and Driving are essential duties and function of this job
• Travel up to 40%

Minimum Qualifications

The following are the minimum job-related qualifications which an individual needs in order to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job
Education Level: (Required): B.A.|B.S. in marketing, math, statistics, or economic fields; MBA, MS or relevant work experience preferred

Field of Study/Area of Experience:

• 10+ years in sales and marketing CPG or food brokerage organization
• 5-10 years successfully managing a P&L, budgeting and forecasting, and managing client expectations either personally or through a team
• 10+ years managing direct reports; reporting directly to VP or C-level executive
• Experience in Brand Management, Customer Management, Category Management, and Shopper Marketing a plus

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Well-organized and strong attention to detail and accuracy
• A leader with strong oral presentation skills
• Demonstrated positive impact on clients' business
• Demonstrated forward-looking, strategic thinking ability

Environmental & Physical Requirements
Office / Sedentary Requirements

Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear the telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may also require the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.

Office / Non-Sedentary Requirements
Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work may be performed in an office or warehouse environment. Typically requires the ability to spend 66%+ hours each work day doing the following activities: stand for extended periods of time, walk, bend, stoop, or climb. May have possible exposure to dust, and may require the ability to lift and/or push up to 50 pounds 33% - 66% of the time.

Additional Information Regarding The Company Job Duties and Job Descriptions
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

Any estimate, schedule, or guideline provided to associates in this job description or elsewhere in connection with their jobs is only intended to help describe job duties and for planning purposes. Regardless of any such estimate, schedule, or guideline, associates must always record all time worked for our company (which includes but is not limited to on-site work time in an assigned store, office, or other work location; required waiting time; administrative time; and work-related travel time).

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.