Growth Analytics Lead - India

Mondelez International; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

International transfer policy

Job summary

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited in Mumbai seeks an India Growth Analytics Lead to head a dedicated analytics sub-team. You will drive prescriptive analytics across marketing mix, pricing and data-driven growth initiatives, and partner with Category, Shopper, Marketing, Finance and Sales teams to enable agile, fact-based decisions.

The role requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and extensive experience in MMM, forecasting, and pricing analytics in a CPG context.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in marketing research and analytics in a CPG/FMCG environment.
• MBA or MA in related field preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen.
• Expert in Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and forecasting.
• Knowledge of pricing concepts and price elasticity.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
• Experience with Nielsen data sources and dashboards.
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Growth Analytics sub-team in India.
• Advance analytics to improve marketing ROI and plan accuracy.
• Manage MMM projects and ROI analyses for BU stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Media, Finance, and Sales teams.
• Harmonize metrics for apples-to-apples ROI comparisons.
• Forecast category growth for 1–4 years.
• Drive social listening capability and insights sharing.
• Mentor and develop Analytics team.

Skills

Marketing analytics

Pricing analytics

First-party data

Social listening

Business intelligence

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

PhD (plus)

Tools

Nielsen Answers

Nielsen Insight Studio

Mekko charts

Pricing simulators

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Mumbai, India

Full time

R-166130

Job Description

Job Profile Summary: The India Growth Analytics Lead is part of the broader India Insights & Analytics (I&A) Team which also includes Category Insights and Shopper Insights Managers. The key purpose of this position is to lead a India Growth Analytics sub-team who will provide Prescriptive Analytics that drive agile fact-based decisions and business growth in India. Specifically, this position is expected to establish, strengthen and advance key Analytics pillars namely: Marketing-Media Analytics, Pricing & Strategic Analytics, First party data analytics, Social listening and Business Intelligence. This position requires the right balance of analytics skills and business acumen and strong ability to communicate and partner with other functions, along with strong leadership qualities. This role will require close collaboration with other functions: Category Insights, Shopper Insights Managers, Marketing, Media, Finance, Category Planning & Activation & RGM (Sales).

Responsibilities

Business Optimization : Promotes the use of advanced modelling and analytics in order to improve the return on marketing investments and to develop fact-based plans for the key Brands Generates and communicates the learning on application of analytics to business issues and is responsible for the identification of general principles that guide the investment of marketing & trade spend and pricing strategies Leverages the analytic tools in conjunction with the BU portfolio to inform opportunities on the distortion of resources across Categories/Brands Provides consolidated reporting for in-market performance and forecasts.

Market Mix Modeling (MMM) / Planning & ROI Independently manage multiple Marketing Mix Modeling projects which are identified as key priorities in the India BU Prepare & present regular ROI analyses, with actionable insights and opportunities, to relevant BU stakeholders Collaborate with Media Team, in Portfolio Advertising Spend optimization and distortion analysis based on MMM learnings across categories in India and potentially support Global Growth Analytics for any broader advertising optimization exercise.

A&C/Trade ROI Measurement: Continuity, Consistency & Comparability Ensure Good ‘Science’, advanced statistical, calibrated Econometric Modeling Harmonized key metrics, definitions, inputs to enable “apples to apples” comparison across brands, markets on ROI’s, drivers of growth Cover business/brand drivers holistically ensuring sufficient granularity (especially Media mix, Price & Promo, NPDs)

Pricing Analytics

• Independently manage multiple Pricing Research or Price Pack Architecture Analyses based on identified priorities and needs in the India BU.
• Utilize core PPA tools such as Mekko Charts, Threshold and Quartile analyses and run Pricing Simulators to flesh out and measure key PPA opportunities in India.

Category Forecasting

• Forecast category growth for next 1-4 yrs leveraging the current best model/framework.
• Working with cross-functional team to align and understand the trends and assumptions and then integrate category forecast in Annual Plan and Strategic Plan.
• Validate the category growth forecast and identify opportunities to better recalibrate current models.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation in New age analytics

• Develop category knowledge, ROI, Media optimization learnings from MMM and Portfolio optimization opportunities and enhance inputs to Brand Drivers modeling, ROI measurement & Optimization capability
• Continuous process improvement to reduce cycle time & costs across all elements of the MMM process – esp. data collection, modeling
• Understands and is able to drive social listening skill set within the team and use social listening tools to analyze and share inputs for the growth agenda of the BU.
• Is able to forecast new product volumes accurately.

People Management

• Leads the development of a strong Growth Analytics sub-team in India that can provide the right insights and analytics to drive growth
• Conducts annual / mid-year appraisals with direct reports and ensures that personal development plans are in place for all team members
• Mentors the team

Communication: Communicate all learning and insights in a compelling way to drive action: Ensure presentations and reports are clear, timely and inspiring as well as actionable. Influence BU Teams. Build management confidence in recommended actions with appropriate interpretation and integration of key concepts.

Workshop & Activation: Set up detailed agenda, invite key stakeholders, arrange other logistics related to a debrief workshop to share and align on the learnings, recommendations which should be considered for short term (Annual Business Plans) and long term (Strategic 3-year Plans).

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Min 15+ years working experience in marketing research, Advanced Analytics preferably at a CPG or FMCG company and 7 years in MMM & forecasting/business planning in increasing responsibility positions.
• Min. Bachelor’s Degree (Social Science, Business Administration, Marketing, Statistics, Economics, required)
• MBA or MA in Social Science with concentration in research, marketing, quantitative analysis is required. PhD is a plus.
• High analytical skills and wisdom/judgement to evaluate and improve delivery
• Strong knowledge of advanced analytics methods ( Marketing Mix Econometric modeling, Forecasting Simulators , Price Pack Architecture / Pricing, Dashboarding, Innovation Incrementality. etc.)
• Able to synthesize data from different sources into a well-structured story with clear implications
• Has very good understanding of Pricing concepts – Price elasticity, demand & supply theory, role of pricing in relation to other marketing mix sales drivers
• Good interpersonal, intercultural and communication / influence skills
• Worked with Market research data sources (Retail Measurement, Brand Health Trackers and Consumer & Shopper panels, Euromonitor, assessment of data quality)
• Effective management skills to develop team and lead/contribute to project management of custom projects.
• Competent in all standard PC packages including Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Experience in using Nielsen Retail Audit database software (Answers, Nielsen Insight Studio) to extract data, prepare reports & dashboards
• Strong knowledge, capability & experience in Household Consumer Panel, Euromonitor & Media Databases
• Experience in working with advanced statistics

More about this role

• This position requires a proactive, mature and self-reliant person who can always take the initiative and influence within a broad team environment. Specific skills also include Superior written and verbal communication skills. A strong storyteller, a lucid and structured communicator, who makes their point clearly and persuasively.
• Must be able to handle numerous projects at one time and meet fast turnaround deadlines
• Advanced organizational skills
• A good balance between using empirical data and common sense and “gut feel”
• Prior knowledge and experience of the Mondelez International organization is preferred but not a requirement.
• Persuasive and stimulating ‘packaging’ and presentation of all materials is a significant part of the job, as is explaining/arguing/defending/developing the thinking in all meetings and communication scenarios.
• Balancing the ability to deliver with urgency with the ability of keeping momentum due to the reality that building capabilities is more of a marathon than a sprint • Take, understand and establish project briefs, communicating and presenting to all parties to ensure the approach is supported, project managed and excellence is achieved
• Become a respected internal source of knowledge on best practices
• Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths.

Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

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

Job Type

Regular

Analytics & Modelling

Analytics & Data Science

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.

Join us and Make It An Opportunity!

Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.