SBFE Head of Insights

About your role

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of one of Europe’s most iconic beverage brands. As Head of Insight for Schweppes (SBFE), you will be the strategic partner to the central Schweppes team, turning consumer understanding, market signals, and business intelligence into sharp, futurefocused direction. You’ll navigate a complex, multimarket environment, influence senior leaders, and ensure that insight becomes a true engine of growth across Europe. This role sits at the heart of brand strategy, innovation, and performance, with a mandate to elevate how Schweppes understands and serves the Seikatsusha. 

What You'll Do

• Lead the integration of consumer insight (CI) and business intelligence (BI) to build forwardlooking perspectives that shape brand and business strategy. 
• Monitor market trends, brand performance, and external dynamics to identify growth opportunities, risks, and knowledge gaps. 
• Partner with marketing and Commercial Excellence teams to cobuild brand strategy, validate consumerfacing assets, and enable insightled decisionmaking. 
• Coordinate Schweppes’ research plans across SBFE markets, ensuring alignment with portfolio strategy, MTP & AOP planning, and research guidelines. 
• Build and drive a European learning agenda in collaboration with local insight teams. 
• Influence senior stakeholders across a matrix organisation, balancing market needs with a central, brandfirst perspective. 

What's in it for you

• A highimpact, highvisibility role shaping the future of Schweppes across Europe. 
• The chance to work at the intersection of strategy, insight, and brand building where your thinking directly influences growth. 
• A collaborative, international environment with exposure to senior leaders and crossfunctional teams. 
• The autonomy to set the insight agenda and elevate how Schweppes understands consumers and markets. 
• Flexibility to be based in Madrid, Paris, or Amsterdam, with opportunities to travel and connect with diverse markets. 

What You need to be successful

• Mastery of research methods and the ability to synthesise complex data into clear, compelling stories. 
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate insight into commercial impact. 
• A futurefocused mindset, comfortable building hypotheses, anticipating trends, and shaping longterm strategy. 
• Exceptional relationship building and influencing skills, including the ability to hold tension and navigate a international matrix organisation. 
• The ability to prioritise ruthlessly, manage multiple projects, and focus teams on what truly drives growth. 

Our DEI Commitment

At Suntory, we recognize that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds contribute to our collective success. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all individuals can bring their whole selves to work every day, regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to highlight what Suntory offers as an employer while allowing candidates to share their unique skills and experiences. We understand that career trajectories vary, and if you believe your experience/background can benefit our team, we encourage you to apply. We endeavor to make our interview process as inclusive as possible and offer reasonable accommodations as needed. Together, we can cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive and propel our mission of Growing for Good.

Who We Are

Suntory Beverage & Food Europe is part of the Suntory Group, one of the leading and most innovative drink companies worldwide.

Our uniqueness lies in our culture, a distinctive blend of Japanese heritage and European roots, and our people, who are driven by our bold and playful Yatte Minahare spirit.

Shinjiro Torii shared his ambition, passion and entrepreneurship with other founders, who like Torii were true pioneers of their time. They all had a thirst for challenge, an obsession for people and a mindset of sustainable growth, and together, they contributed to making what Suntory Beverage & Food Europe is today.