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About the Role

The Global Senior Manager, Insights & Analytics, serves as a senior analytical and strategic partner, leading the delivery of commercially driven intelligence across consumer, market, competitor, and category spaces through an ingredient lens. This role translates complex data into actionable implications to inform business priorities, customer engagement, and commercial decisions. Key responsibilities include developing global trend frameworks, identifying opportunities through simulations, and acting as a subject matter expert on data platforms and analytical methodologies. The role also focuses on enhancing analytical capabilities globally, championing self-service tools, and driving thought leadership.

Responsibilities

Lead the delivery of global intelligence on consumers, market dynamics, competitors, and customers, framing outputs as actionable implications for senior commercial and cross-functional audiences.
Translate multi-source data into decision-ready insight with a clear audit trail from data to recommendation, ensuring insight is embedded in business decisions.
Own the analytical approach for Gameboard simulation, identifying opportunity and compete spaces and their commercial implications.
Integrate competitor intelligence and scenario planning into Gameboard outputs, ensuring they are decision-ready.
Manage CI databases, data queries, and source integrity, including import/export processes.
Lead the implementation and management of CI tools and ways of working.
Deliver M&A-related insights and global competitor overviews.
Act as a strategic CI partner to platforms, regions, and global strategy teams.
Own global food and beverage ingredient trends and proprietary research, integrating regional inputs into a global framework and translating them into actionable insight.
Lead proprietary research, owning the research approach, application guidance, and elevation of insights.
Anchor all regional research to the global trend framework.
Develop category gameboard simulations identifying opportunity spaces and implications for T&L's portfolio and footprint.
Embed AI and automation tools into analytical workflows to reduce turnaround time, eliminate repetitive tasks, and improve output consistency.
Build and maintain repeatable analytical frameworks and templates that raise the quality floor across all global programs.
Champion a test-and-learn approach to emerging tools and methods.
Set and maintain clear and outstanding analytical quality standards across the global team.
Review outputs before they reach senior stakeholders, ensuring they are consistently decision-ready.
Coach other business users, build shared ways of working, and provide tools training to drive self-service adoption.
Collaborate with external partners to develop relevant training programs.
Proactively share global insight with regional teams and leverage regional inputs as hypotheses for global programs.

Requirements

Significant progressive experience in insights, analytics, strategy, or consulting, ideally within FMCG, food & beverage, or ingredients.
Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Copilot.
Practical experience with Mintel, Nielsen, GlobalData, Descartes, and CRM environments.
Hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate analysis and improve output quality.
Demonstrated CI delivery including competitor tracking, database management, source evaluation, and tool implementation.
Experience designing and managing B2B and B2C research programs (qualitative and quantitative), including agency briefing, vendor selection, methodology, and output integration.
Applies hypothesis-led frameworks and MECE structuring to break ambiguous business questions into clear workstreams with defined outputs.
Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop clear storylines, manage senior stakeholder relationships, and deliver actionable recommendations under pressure.
Experience in a top-tier consultancy or strong in-house consulting role is required.
Grounded understanding of FMCG, food & beverage, or ingredients markets, including category dynamics, competitor landscape, market sizing, and how insight connects to commercial prioritization.
Proven ability to present to and influence senior stakeholders.
Manages multiple analytical workstreams simultaneously, delivering accurately and at pace.
Experience coaching and developing other business users, building shared quality standards, and driving capability uplift across a global or cross-functional team.
Natural connector who shares insight proactively, builds strong relationships across regions and functions, and drives alignment without authority.

Skills

Data synthesis and analytics
Insight communication
Excel
PowerPoint
Power BI
Microsoft 365
Copilot
Mintel
Nielsen
GlobalData
Descartes
CRM environments
AI and automation
Competitive intelligence
Primary and secondary research
Structured problem-solving
Consulting mindset
Commercial acumen
Stakeholder influence
People development
Cross-functional collaboration

Location

Global

Work Type

Flexible working policy

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

Bonus scheme
16-week Equal Parental Leave
Mental health & well-being support
Flexible working policy
Competitive salary
Discretionary annual bonus
Excellent employer pension contribution
Personal private medical insurance
Life assurance

About the Company

Tate & Lyle is a global leader in sweetening, texture, and fortification products that remove calories and add fiber.
Their innovations help create healthier, tastier food and drink for billions of consumers.
They foster an experimental culture and aim for a tech-enabled, more agile, risk-ready operation.
They are committed to growing their business and its positive impact on communities, society, and the planet.

Equal Opportunity

Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.