The Manager, RGM Insights delivers pricing, promotion, and package insights to drive revenue, volume, and profit for the NAOU system. This role embeds strategic consumer, shopper, and post-event insights to drive RGM decision-making with RGM Multiyear, OBPPC, Franchise and Execution teams. This requires holistic business understanding, an analytical mindset, and strong collaboration skills.

• Support deployment and increase adoption of trade strategy insights to key stakeholders with specific alignment to embedding insights throughout the NAOU RGM functions.
• Provide key issue identification and prioritization recommendations to inform NAOU's current and multi-year retail strategies.
• Provide analysis and solution recommendations using Promo Optimization tools and advanced data analysis.
• Analyze business performance for gaps versus plan drivers and lead the development of contingencies/solutions.
• Collaborate with the RGM MY and OBPPC teams on opportunity mapping, innovation assessments, package opportunities, and guardrail direction.
• Partner with cross functional RGM teams to embed consumer and shopper insights into price, promotion, and package decisions.
• Collaborate with the larger RGM insights team to support innovative insights frameworks to enable strategic decision making.
• Partner with the RGM capabilities team and vendors as needed to rollout insights solutions at scale.

KEY SKILLS / CAPABILITIES

• Excellent analytical skills - ability to draw insights and actions from data; ability to develop volumetric & financial models that can accommodate multiple inputs from diverse data sources and be used for scenario planning.
• Strong partnership and collaboration: Must be able to work across functions and the system effectively.
• Solid presentation, influencing, and storytelling skills: Present ideas and drive initiatives with clear and concise reasoning and action plans.
• Strong understanding of customer P&L management, revenue growth management capabilities, forecasting, and trade spend effectiveness.
• Ability to evaluate business planning goals/strategies and analyze financials to derive insights and initiate gap solving.
• Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and influence decision making to drive adoption of insights.

KEY KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE

Mastery of (Required)

• Develop business plans / business cases - strategic thinking (forward-looking vision and anticipating of future needs).
• Change Management - demonstrates innovation & creativity to develop novel business solutions; ability to influence/gain alignment across divergent perspectives.
• Knowledge in key data systems - in market measurement, consumer segmentation, consumer panels, pricing evaluation and shopper card datasets.
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills - ability to influence and build consensus across and within teams.

Broad expertise in (Good to have)

• Pricing & Promotions - understanding of rate/mix drivers and promotional impact on overall rate.
• OBPPC Strategy - multi-year and in-year strategies to accelerate revenue, profit, and growth.
• Opportunity Mapping

Education and Professional Experience:

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry