Director - Syndicated Insights

Job Introduction

Are you ready to lead and be challenged as part of a highly motivated, trusted team at the heart of a thriving business? Our US Commercial Sales team is looking for a rare character to support commercial data for operations. We are looking for a Director – Syndicated Insights who will play a critical role in transforming complex business, consumer, customer, and market data into actionable insights that drive sustainable growth for the US Commercial agenda.

Main Responsibility

This role will be responsible for leading US reporting and analytics initiatives. They will enable the organization to achieve business objectives by integrating and leveraging key data sources. They will deliver actionable, insight-driven recommendations that support portfolio and brand growth—working in close partnership with the US Commercial team, Marketing team, and Global Analytics teams identifying trends, measuring performance, and support strategic decision-making.

The role will lead reporting and analytics initiatives across syndicated data, shopper insights, promotional effectiveness, pricing analytics, innovation performance, and customer-specific business reviews.

In addition, it is critical this role ensures consistency, data accuracy, and establishes best practices for analytics and reporting processes.

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate is required to have:

• The ideal candidate combines strong analytical capabilities with commercial acumen and the ability to communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, analytics, statistics, economics, data science, or related field is required; MBA or advanced analytics certification preferred.
• Minimum 7-10+ years of experience; preferably within the alcohol spirits or CPG industry.
• Operational experience with strong preference partnering with multiple commercial functions and marketing, finance, and supply chain teams.
• Self-starter who is proactive and works on their own initiative; takes the lead on projects and analysis.
• A high-level of commercial, marketing and finance experience working in a data-driven industry where they have developed and executed programs based on data.
• Expert Excel skills, including proficiency with formulas and data analysis, is required.
• Demonstrated computer software skills including Power BI or similar tools.
• Must have strong end-to-end business understanding.
• Strong presentation skills to various levels of internal and external team members, with the ability to translate data into business insights to all stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and coach team members.

It is highly desired that our ideal candidate has:

• Experience with syndicated data platforms (Nielsen, etc).
• Knowledge of the alcohol spirits industry 3-tier system regulatory environment.
• Experience collaborating and influencing CPG brand marketing and sales teams.
• Ability to manage difficult, complex markets and achieve business objectives.
• Experience developing and maintaining dashboards, scorecards for executive reporting.
• Experience analyzing syndicated and internal data sources to identify growth opportunities and risks.
• Experience delivering actionable insights across market share, pricing, promotions, distribution, behavior, innovation, and competition.
• Experience supporting annual planning, business reviews, and strategic initiatives.
• Be able to work with little supervision and demonstrate the initiative necessary to handle multiple projects in a timely manner within a lean organization.

The salary range for this role based out of the NYC office is $191,000 - $220,000.

This role is not eligible for international or domestic relocation.

Full job description of the role can be found below by clicking on the PDF attachment. This description is not an exhaustive list the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. WG&S reserves the right to revise the role profile at any time and to assign additional duties and responsibilities as needed.

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous vacation entitlement.
• Comprehensive Private Healthcare that includes Medical, Dental & Vision
• Our employees can join our 401(k) savings plan. The company matches employees’ contribution up to 5%, in addition to a Discretionary Contribution.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life and AD&D cover is a multiple of three times your annual basic salary.
• Product allowance so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands with your family and friends.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim funding each year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. We’re proud to provide equal opportunity to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, family medical history or genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.

Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.

We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at ***email_hidden***.

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