Vice President, Insights & Business Strategy, Consumer Products - Nickelodeon

Full Time Job
Nickelodeon is seeking a Vice President, Insights & Business Strategy to support the global consumer products business. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving market intelligence and business strategy, as well as the long term growth strategy. Specific responsibilities include:

Market Intelligence and Business Strategy
• Perform in-depth analyses to understand the licensed consumer products and retail landscape – consumers, retail, competitors, and market opportunities
• Leverage business results, market trends and consumer insights to develop and recommend insightful recommendation for growth opportunities
• Perform market analyses, competitive landscapes and maintain a constant awareness of market, consumer, retail and industry trends
• Synthesize key learning insights from various data sources and studies and create highly engaging snapshots to be shared across the organization.
• Proactively identify opportunities to cascade consumer and retail insights throughout the organization
• Ensure all lines of business leverage consumer insights, address trends and serve the consumer and retail needs
• Support the development of presentations for business reviews, executive meetings
• Develop category, market opportunity sizing and forecasts
• Partner with brands and retail teams to drive business results through analytics-based perspectives in areas of category/brand growth, new business opportunities

Long-term Growth Strategy
• Actively support the development and activation of key strategies across the CP organization
• Coordinate and collaborate with brand to create long range business plans for the brands

The successful incumbent will bring:

Analytical/Problem Solving
• Ensure utilization and integration of existing research and consumer/market knowledge to drive strategy and tactics for category and brand portfolios
• High degree of facility with research sources, financial and statistical techniques
• Exceptional hypothesis-driven problem solving
• Proven skills synthesizing disparate sources of information
• Relentless ability to work in the details, accuracy and quality without losing the big picture
• Inherent curiosity about the ‘why’ behind consumer attitudes and behavior
• Innate curiosity in consumer, retail, and technology trends; enthusiasm for questioning conventional wisdom
• Exceptional influencer who is great at connecting the dots on a project
• Solutions oriented

Presentation Skills
• Highly articulate
• Confident and poise in presenting to senior leadership
• Ability to craft compelling stories supported by data, that bring strategies to life
• Ability to synthesize results in a clear and engaging manner, with actionable recommendations
• Ability to design and build visual tools to convert data into visually digestible information
• Outstanding writing skills; ability to convincingly structure and deliver content in written, oral and formal presentations

Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to be a thought leader and command influence with peer groups
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Be a strong consumer champion
• Must possess strong time management skills and ability to multi task
• Learn quickly, and take initiative
• Effective at influencing and catalyzing diverse teams with various agendas

Basic Qualifications

• 7 years of related professional experience
• 5 years’ experience from management consulting, strategy group, top retailer or consumer Products Company.
• Bachelor’s degree
• Must bring some CPG/retain experience

Additional Qualifications

• MBA preferred

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