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    Houston Foresight Chicago, United States

    2 days ago

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    Job Description:

    Mars Food & Nutrition has an ambitious agenda to enable healthier and more flavorful eating to become part of consumers daily lives.

    As part of this ambition, we need to stay on the cutting edge of understanding how the consumer and category are changing and how that translates into business opportunity and strategy.

    We are looking for a foresight, insight and analytics leader someone who can both see and sense the big picture, and who can equally translate that into clear implications and business assumptions.

    This position will work as part of our Business Development and Strategy team, bringing data and insights into the development of strategy, supporting diligence and modeling for potential acquisitions, and supporting insights work for our standalone high-growth businesses.

    This role will form an integral part of our Business Development and Strategy Team working across a small, but highly visible, group that leads M&A strategy, future business strategy, M&A integration and support for our engine 2 businesses.

    The role reports into the VP of the group, with a dotted line into the Global Insights Director who acts as a COE for the business segment.

    The role will also work closely with other members of the Global Food & Nutrition leadership team including the Chief Growth Officer and VP of R&D.

    The role will support the Marketing and Value Creation leads for Tasty Bite and Kevins Natural Foods with consumer insight needs.


    What are we looking for?

    Bachelors degree required; MBA preferred

    10+ years in market research, strategy or private equity analysis

    Background and passion in foresight, data and insight work

    Strong analytical and insights capabilities in working with retail audit data (e.g., Nielsen and SPINS) and survey development

    Background in working with more disruptive businesses

    Ideally experience in diligence of potential acquisition

    What will be your key responsibilities?

    Lead data-driven foresights work in the evolving food and nutrition categories in the US to identify and size emerging trends, whitespaces and jobs to be done

    Conduct rigorous hypothesis testing, translating insights into implications for our strategy

    Support consumer insights work for Food & Nutrition high-growth engine 2 businesses (including acquired companies) and emerging markets

    Oversee research to develop investment theses around investments in new verticals / industry / geographies

    Support business development scanning and sourcing by using syndicated retail data to monitor prioritized assets and to identify potential future targets

    Contribute to the definition of value creation levers and business modelling for M&A by bringing in data and insights to support the development of investment theses

    Lead diligence on consumer and category for prioritized assets including competitor, willingness to pay, awareness, penetration, job to be done, distribution, etc.


    Promote and drive consumer centricity within the organization, instilling a deep consumer understanding in our business to emotionally engage with consumers needs & pain points

    Work with Global Insights Director to coordinate consumer and category view across core and emerging business

    What can you expect from Mars?

    Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.

    Join a purpose driven company, where were striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

    Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

    An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

    Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

    If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request.

    The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.


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    Were a unified force of 140,000+ Associates, taking action every day toward the world we want tomorrow.

    Our Five Principles have kept us true to ourselves and to our commitment to treat others in ways that are consistent with those values.

    Having stood the test of time, these principles will continue, keeping us free to move quickly and plan for the future.


    Quality The consumer is our boss, quality is our work and value for money is our goal.

    Responsibility As individuals, we demand total responsibility from ourselves; as Associates, we support the responsibilities of others.

    Mutuality A mutual benefit is a shared benefit; a shared benefit will endure.

    Efficiency We use resources to the full, waste nothing and do only what we can do best.

    Freedom We need freedom to shape our future; we need profit to remain free.


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