Senior Insights Manager, The Insights Lab

Description

Kenvue is currently recruiting for

Senior Insights Manager, The Insights Lab

Who We Are:

At Kenvue , we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, were the house of iconic brands – including Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Listerine, Johnsons and BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandages that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent. Our global team is made up of ~ 22,000 diverse and brilliant people, passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact the life of millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future-and yours. For more information, click here .

The Insights Lab will be a new state-of-the-art facility enabling immersive collaboration, planning and learning. It is a technology forward environment with physical and digital merchandising capability and will be leveraged for strategic meetings, consumer learning and to showcase our Kenvue Category Visioning and best-in-class innovation and execution to our customers, retailers, and partners.

Role reports to: Senior Director Category Excellence

Location: Skillman, NJ.Kenvues corporate headquarters is currently located in Skillman NJ, but is scheduled to move to Summit, NJ in or around early 2025

Travel %: 20

Pay: $119,000 to $205,850

What you will do:

The Sr. Insights Manager is responsible for the strategic and day-to-day operations of The Insights lab. This individual will shape The Insights Labs capability strategy based on industry capabilities and trends. This individual will lead the strategic operations of the lab to support consumer / shopper research initiatives, retailer meetings, strategic planning meetings, BIC merchandising & activation development to elevate Kenvues Insights capability, thought leadership, strategic partnerships and business impact. This leader will serve as a cross-category partner, helping shape category stories, leading the hosting of Kenvue guests, developing immersive presentations, and have competency across key tech & shopper / category systems such as JDA Space Planning software, Adobe Creative Cloud, video / audio tech experience. This individual needs to be agile, adaptable, ability to manage complexity, know how to use space planning software, strong presentation skills, an ability to develop content and a strong understanding of video / audio technology. This leader will serve as the primary business partner for multiple stakeholders internally and externally and should have demonstrated ability to collaborate & partner end-to-end. This person should be able to operate in a high level fast paced, complex, and changing business environment. This individual will also be a people leader for the extended Insights Lab team

Key Responsibilities:
Serve as the lead Global Insights Lab leader – be a trusted partner that brings strong thought leadership and technical know-how across key category & customer initiatives
Partner, shape, develop &project manage key customer presentations leveraging Innovation Lab Immersive software in support of Category / Brand / Retailer initiatives
Strategic leadership and ability to execute the day-to-day operations of the lab, with high quality management of the technical tools & software
Strategic leadership and ability to execute the day-to-day operations of The Insight Lab meetings including preparing for & executing hosting consumers, shoppers, retailers, Kenvue guests & leaders
Partner, shape & develop immersive retailer environments leveraging VIS software and in partnership with development agency
Identify & optimize Booking process, developing and deployment process of lab usage
Lead and empower your end-to-end team to act with speed, agility, and accountability
Be a shopper and category champion within the organization, providing voice of customer and shaping capability pilots & strategic plans
Strategic partnership with internal Shopper/Category partners on research opportunities: provide voice-of-customer, shape research projects, and activate findings to be customer-specific
Strategic partnership, influence and oversight to execute the POG activations, merchandising improvements, efficient assortment, and clustering solutions
Lead partnerships with other Global Insights Lab (e.g. P2P Lab in UK) and local Retailer team CFTs
Prepare, maintain, and monitor respective budget(s) ensuring a strong return for investment
Lead agency partnerships, inclusive of technical, content and software partners
Lead, train & retain direct report, helping upskill Kenvue talent

What we are looking for

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred
A minimum of 8 years of proven experience in CPG industry – customer insights, category management, space planning and/or shopper insights or relevant business experience is required
Ability to understand and interpret shopper and category insights research and a strong understanding of syndicated data, panel data, shopper-card data and other research
Extensive knowledge of omni retail customer store operations, structure, strategy, and retail execution tactics required.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships
Strong digital & technical literacy, including advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite
Experience working with Adobe Creative Cloud (most notably Photoshop and Illustrator)
Ability to independently devise…

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