Manager, Integrated Intelligence- Pet SBA

The J.M. Smucker Company; Washington; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The J.M. Smucker Company is seeking a Manager, Integrated Intelligence for Pet SBA to lead data‑driven insights that steer brand strategy and performance. You will partner with Brand Marketing and Innovation to translate data into impactful recommendations and grow consumer engagement.

Responsibilities include leading analyses, synthesizing findings, and driving actionable business actions. The role requires strong analytical and storytelling skills, collaboration, and a results‑oriented mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required with strong data analysis experience.
• Proven ability to analyze, validate and synthesize data into actionable insights.
• Strong storytelling skills to present complex information clearly.
• Strategic and analytical mindset with curiosity and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to uncover critical dynamics of purchase behavior to guide decisions.
• Lead cross‑functional reviews and ongoing business analysis with Brand Marketing and Innovation.
• Dig deeper to identify drivers behind category and brand results and opportunities.
• Develop partnerships with marketing and cross‑functional teams.
• Develop and execute analytics learning plans and analytic projects.
• Communicate insights clearly and ensure action oriented recommendations.
• Collaborate with data vendors to maximize analytic capabilities.

Skills

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Storytelling

Communication skills

Pattern detection

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Curiosity

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Nielsen

IRI Numerator

ShopperSights/Spectra

Job description

Manager, Integrated Intelligence- Pet SBA

Your Opportunity as the Manager Integrated Intelligence- Pet SBA

The Insights Team inspires strategy and ideas that drive more consumers and shoppers to love our brands more often. We are the catalyst to deep consumer understanding passion intuition and ultimately serve as an expert for our brands over time. We do this by blending the art of understanding people and the grounding science of data to drive meaningful strategy insights and recommendations. The power of this collective team brings together the best human-centric researchers (Consumer and Shopper) advanced analytics and foresight (Integrated Intelligence) professionals to drive a single source of truth that moves the business forward. In this role you will be a key partner to several cross‑functional teams with Brand Marketing and Innovation teams as primary stakeholders uncovering critical dynamics of purchase behavior that guide business decisions. Through synthesis and triangulation of business analyses and other marketplace understanding you will ensure that Smucker teams have a thorough understanding of market dynamics and develop appropriate actions to maximize business results.

Location: Orrville Corporate Offices

Work Arrangements: Hybrid 25% in office expectations

• Provide thought‑leadership related to businesses and company performance growth opportunities and targets by identifying and understanding where consumer data can help drive or support business decisions.
• Lead ongoing business review analysis and cross‑functional discussions
• Continually “dig deeper” to provide perspective on the drivers behind category and brand business results as well as opportunities for future improvement
• Develop strong partnerships with marketing and cross functional team members
• Develop and execute analytics learning plan
• Lead analytic projects such as Purchase Structures and Brand Health Tracking
• Communicate knowledge insight and recommendations clearly succinctly and ensure action oriented.
• Collaborate with data vendors to drive best‑in‑class partnerships that maximize analytic capabilities.
• Partner with Insights team members to ensure that a total suite of insights capabilities is leveraged to address business questions in a holistic manner connecting the dots and synthesizing content
• Be a key contributor to other primary insights research such as consumer segmentation

The Right Role for You

We are bold kind strive to do the right thing we play to win and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical emotional and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years data analysis experience
• Strong analytical skills including experience analyzing validating and synthesizing data that translate to actionable insights.
• Deep knowledge of data analytics modeling approaches and growth minded towards new approaches.
• Strong ability to craft clear story and present complex information clearly to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to identify patterns test and learn and draw conclusions from ambiguous data.
• Excellent strategic and analytical mindset to help the company take insights‑inspired business action.
• High personal standards of integrity
• Possess a high level of emotional intelligence.
• Strong sense of curiosity
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy of output
• Highly collaborative with the ability to draw on strengths and drive swiftly towards answers.
• Willingness to tackle a wide variety of projects flow to the work get involved in projects outside of core competencies.

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Professional experience with a Consumer‑Packaged Goods (CPG) company retailer or syndicated data provider
• Comprehensive experience with leveraging syndicated and crowdsourcing data (e.g. Nielsen IRI Numerator POS panel ShopperSights/Spectra)

Learn more about working at Smucker:

• Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
• Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
• Our Continued Progress on Inclusion Diversity and Equity

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