Innovation Insights Manager - Parsippany, NJ

 Company:Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.Status:Full Time, EmployeeLocation:Parsippany, NJ 07054Job Category:Marketing/ProductSalary:Competitive Salary & Benefits PackageEducation Level:Bachelor's Degree Use the employer's preferred method to send your resume - click Apply Now!   Job Description JOIN THE LEADER!Ralcorp Holdings, Inc Ralcorp, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is the leading producer of a variety of value brand and store brand foods sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers, and frozen bakery products sold to in-store bakeries, restaurants and other foodservice customers.  Through a recent merger with Post Cereals, Ralcorp is now also a leading producer of branded cereals. Ralcorp's diversified product mix includes: ready-to-eat and hot cereals; nutritional and cereal bars; snack mixes, corn-based chips and corn snack products; crackers and cookies; snack nuts; chocolate candy; salad dressings; mayonnaise; peanut butter; jams and jellies; syrups; sauces; frozen griddle products; frozen biscuits and other frozen pre-baked products.  We have emerged as a solid and powerful organization focusing on newly energized and highly motivated teams.  Today we also emerge with a heightened commitment to expand our presence through new product development and through the acquisition of allied store brand businesses.  Through operations in over thirty plants within the United States and Canada we employ about 9,000 people with sales boasting of $3 billion. Every location offers an environment that values each of its employees! JOB DESCRIPTION: Team Role: The Innovation Insights Manager will be integral member of the cross-functional business team. This person will own the design, implementation, management, and interpretation of consumer, market, trend/competitive insight initiatives. Post is looking for an eager, intelligent individual to help take its portfolio and business to the next level: Be the objective consumer voice to guide and shape Post portfolio innovation initiatives that span the fuzzy front end through commercialization including idea discovery (trends, consumer/marketplace insights), concept writing, positioning, advertising/marketing communications, packaging, and product delivery. Provide support by turning data information insights meaning influence business decisions to Post differentiate in-market. Champion a holistic consumer perspective via experience in survey/custom, analytics, and insights – particularly with an appetite to directly and interactively experience our consumer’s lives. Specifically, keeping a pulse on the latest trends.Core Responsibilities of Insights Manager:Conveys objective, gestalt consumer view to team. Seeks understanding – curious to ‘peel back the layers’ to get at root causes versus symptoms. Identifies and recommends key opportunities/issues to be addressed through insights, survey, and analytics via close working relationship with the head of CIS, business team, and agency partners. Proposes cost effective research designs including how they connect to business issues, the critical research objectives, and, if applicable, the action standards for evaluating results, and gains team alignment. Manages multiple projects concurrently with objectivity for timely and quality execution including supplier selection, questionnaire design, field, data collection, interpretation, and communication. Including creating and leading consumer excursions for team. Helps nurture supplier relationships through respectful and responsible project management. Translates data/learnings into meaning and insight for the team to help drive the business forward by reviewing vendor reports, summarizing key highlights and implications, integrating other data sources, and sharing with the team. Creates a persuasive “storyâ€� that is emerging in the information to generate compelling recommendations to influence business decisions/strategic direction. Possesses expertise in accessing and leveraging syndicated data sources and has experience in Analytics (marketing mix models, market structure, and other modeling capabilities). Handles day-to-day activities within assigned research budget.JOB QUALIFICATIONS:Education: Bachelor’s Degree (Social Science, Marketing). MBA or MMR preferred, not required. Experience: 5+ years CPG marketing research experience. A background in new product development. NPD experience not limited to CPG – open to agency or supplier. The individual should have demonstrated successes in uncovering insights that yielded new product wins in-market. Personality Traits: A thinker with solid analytical skills and can-do attitude Passionate and curious about consumers and their behavior Has a bias for action Ability to lead, highly responsible, strong attention to detail, closely manage timelines Eager to learn, try and play to win Creative individual who is not afraid to challenge the status quo Wants to work in an entrepreneurial, flexible, fast-paced environment  To apply, please visit www.ralcorp.com. Ralcorp is an equal opportunity employer.Contact Information Company:Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.