Senior Insights Manager

Introducing Suntory Oceania

Craft your future with Suntory Oceania, a new $3b multi-beverage partnership between Suntory Global Spirits and Suntory Beverage & Food. Underpinned by quality, craftsmanship and a strong sense of purpose, our exciting new partnership will be powered by more than 1500 Suntorians across Australia and New Zealand.

Our market-leading portfolio will have over 40 brands, including Jim Beam® and Maker's Mark® Bourbon, Hibiki® Japanese Whisky, Canadian Club® Whisky, -196, V Energy, Maximus, and Suntory BOSS Coffee. As One Suntory, we will be positioned as the fourth largest beverage player in the region, ready to ignite the category, creating more beverage moments from sunrise to sunset. Together, we will bring the best of Suntory to Oceania.

The Opportunity

We are a consumer driven business, with insights at the heart of all we do, and an agenda to drive this curiosity and consumer-centricity among all teams, not just marketing.

This is a full time, 14 month fixed term contract covering parental leave. It reports into our Head of Insights, and is part of our highly regarded and sought-after Insights team. You will primarily partner the big and exciting V Energy brand, collating, managing and implementing the insights that underpin the development of the V brand strategy and plans, and to support their execution in the local Oceania market. For this reason, you should be proficient in all elements of insights partnering, from strategy, positioning, comms development and testing and innovation. In doing so, you will:

• Support business performance and growth.
• Focus on building a culture of consumer curiosity and understanding.
• Ensure consumer knowledge and insights are at the core of decision making.

This role will connect the marketing and wider teams with our consumers, both current and future, by providing understanding and evidence around how the needs of consumers are changing, how they interact with our brands, and what this could mean for future brand, customer and business strategy.

Key responsibilities include:

• Spark curiosity and inspire the broader team by continually bringing new ideas and examples for the team to learn from
• Connect the team to broader consumer macro trends and future implications
• Ensuring brand tracking metrics are shared out in a relevant way for key stakeholders
• Pull together disparate insight to deliver more holistic insight
• Partner brand teams on  research projects and lead research agency interaction
• Work with brand teams to utilise insight to identify strategic directions and priorities
• Embed evidence-based thinking on marketing principles and best practice within the broader business team
• Bring your own flair to the role!

What’s in your toolkit?

• Proven experience in consumer insights, ideally with client side and/or FMCG experience
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and highly collaborative working style
• Excellent technical understanding of research and insights process
• The ability to think outside the box and look at the bigger picture
• Curiosity and drive to truly understand our consumers
• Strategic planning and project management experience
• Innovative, agile and consumer obsessed

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.