An opportunity has arisen for an experienced insight and commercial performance leader to join one of the UK's largest and most recognisable consumer organisations on an interim basis.
This is a high-profile leadership role where you'll help senior business leaders understand market performance, identify growth opportunities, and shape strategic decisions through insight-led recommendations.
You'll operate at board-facing level, leading a team responsible for translating complex market, customer and competitor data into clear commercial actions that drive performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the analysis and interpretation of market share, customer spend and competitor performance
- Present recommendations and insights to senior leadership and board stakeholders
- Identify commercial growth opportunities and performance risks
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable business strategies
- Lead and develop a high-performing insight team
- Manage relationships with external insight and market data partners
- Coordinate internal and external analytical resources to maximise business impact
- Improve reporting efficiency through automation and modern analytical approaches
- Support commercial teams in responding to market and competitive developments
- Drive a culture of evidence-based decision making across the organisation
Key Skills & Experience
- Experience leading insight, analytics, market intelligence or commercial performance functions
- Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and executive teams
- Ability to turn complex data into compelling business stories and recommendations
- Experience operating within large, complex organisations
- Proven people leadership experience, including Matrix and cross-functional teams
- Strong commercial understanding of customer behaviour, market performance and growth drivers
- Experience presenting findings and recommendations to director, executive or board-level audiences
- Ability to prioritise multiple workstreams and deliver through others
Desirable Experience
- Retail, grocery or FMCG sector experience
- Market performance, category insight or customer insight leadership
- Experience working with market data providers such as Kantar, NielsenIQ, Circana or similar
- Exposure to insight transformation, automation or AI-enabled reporting initiatives
- Commercial finance, trade analysis or business performance backgrounds combined with insight leadership experience
Rate:
£950/day
Location:
Welwyn Garden City
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
Data & Analytics
Seniority Level:
Senior