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 V Energy, Maximus, Suntory BOSS Coffee, Jim Beam® and Maker's Mark® Bourbon, Hibiki® Japanese Whisky, Canadian Club® Whisky, and -196. 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 among all teams, not just marketing. Reporting into our Head of Insights, and part of our highly regarded and sought-after Insights team, this new position has been created due to business growth and demand for the team’s strategic partnering.

This role is responsible for the collation, management and dissemination of insights that underpin the development of brand strategies and plans for our non-alcoholic portfolio, and to support their execution in the local Oceania market.

Key focus for the role includes:

• Supporting business performance and growth;
• Continued focus on building a culture of consumer curiosity and understanding;
• Ensuring 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
• Manage brand health tracking programme, ensuring 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

Unleash your Spirit

As Suntorians we believe in Dreaming Big and Growing for Good. We take pride in our sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, striving to grow responsibly and inclusively. If you are ready to unleash your spirit with Suntory Oceania, then please apply today.

We want our interview process to be as inclusive as possible. If you require any adjustments as part of the process, do not hesitate to let us know.