Sr. Director, Consumer & Category Insights - Remote

Sr. Director, Consumer & Category Insights

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Director, Consumer & Category Insights is a critical role at Eagle Foods and will help define the insights driven growth strategy for our brands and categories with consumer, customer and product focused insights. This role will report to the EVP of Marketing and R&D and will partner with cross functional teams to lead all consumer, category, brand and sensory insights work, including analysis and insights from syndicated and retailer data. The Sr Director of Insights will have an integral role to play in strategic business decisions and engage with the Leadership Team to drive an insights and consumer driven growth mindset.

This role will lead a team to deliver actionable insights to the business to drive strategy and business growth. The candidate needs to be passionate about the role Insights play in driving our brand, category and customer growth strategies. The role goes beyond data, we are looking for someone to inspire our teams through insights to develop creative and differentiated growth strategies. The role requires a person with the vision to create an insights driven playbook for understanding categories, brands, customers and consumers to identify growth and development opportunities. The individual must be able to collaborate and support the brand / innovation / category / sales teams across the organization

Essential Functions

• Ability to combine internal and external analysis to create holistic view of consumer behavior and brand and category dynamics
• Ability to manage a broad set of research efforts including surveys, analysis of secondary data, and qualitative methods to gain a deep understanding of consumers and categories
• Ability to work cross functionally with the sales team to support an insights driven customer strategy and execution
• Ability to think outside the box to bring new ways to gain insights that are faster and more efficient while delivering insightful findings
• Ability to summarize complex data, communicate and make recommendations to the Leadership Team, sales, R&D and marketing.
• A strong work ethic and capability to think strategically whilst managing multiple hands-on tasks and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Tasks and Responsibilities

Qualifications

This position requires intermittent overnight travel, estimated at 2030%.

Eagle Foods is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their roles.

This role offers a salary range of $167,137.30 - $230,000.00 along with eligibility for an annual performance bonus and, for certain leadership roles, Long-Term Incentive (LTI) opportunities. Eagle Foods provides a comprehensive benefits package featuring two medical plan options, two dental plan options, and two vision plan options, as well as company-paid life and disability insurance. Employees also receive a 401(k) with a 100% company match up to 5% and immediate vesting, plus access to additional voluntary benefits. Paid time off, personal days, parental leave, company holidays, and a variety of other programs further support the wellbeing of our team members and their families.