Head of Sugars in Oxford

Who we are… GlobalData operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change. By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what’s coming, move faster, and lead with confidence. Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world’s largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

Why join GlobalData? GlobalData is at a pivotal point in its growth journey and we need curious, ambitious, courageous people to support us in achieving our vision to deliver intelligence that transforms uncertainty into opportunity for the world’s most successful organizations. Our big ambitions mean that life at GlobalData is fast paced, entrepreneurial and rewarding. Working together in an intellectually challenging environment, where learning is super-charged to keep us on our toes, the highly stimulating, fast-paced, global environment we operate in, and our bold ambitions result in unique learning opportunities for our people.

The role… The Head of Sugars role requires a seasoned industry professional with a strong understanding of sugar trends across the agribusiness landscape. This role is instrumental in leading GlobalData’s premium sugar and sweeteners content, guiding a team of analysts across various locations to champion GlobalData’s syndicated and consulting content within these disciplines. This role focuses on leading a team towards continuous improvement across methodology, processes and process documentation, data quality and timeliness. Additionally, driving thought leadership alongside the Head of Agribusiness and Global R&A Director to shape the annual insights agenda for syndicated sugars and sweeteners content across critical markets and themes. A curious mindset is crucial for exploring innovative approaches to presenting and enhancing sugars-related content, ensuring consistently high-quality and client-ready outputs. Client engagement and adoption of GlobalData’s Customer Lifecycle program is an important part of the Head of Sugars role. You will be required to regularly contribute to GlobalData’s series of webinars, conferences and customer calls.

What you’ll be doing…

• Product management
  • Responsible for the smooth running of the syndicated sugars-focussed content – data, reports and apps.
  • Plan and prioritise team delivery commitments throughout the year based on topics that reflect the production plan and any ad hoc engagement sessions.
  • Stay informed of industry regulatory changes relating to sugars and the impact of proposed legislation on different sectors, with support from each of the subject matter experts within your team.
  • Schedule suitable resources for client support initiatives and consulting projects when requested.
  • Work closely with the Global R&A Director on sugar product development initiatives, ensuring the sugars proposition gets stronger, more comprehensive and develops in line with industry expectations over time.
  • Consider legacy research projects and databases that could, with investment, be revived and updated to offer valuable additions to sugar companies.
  • Communicate with analysis teams globally to track publication progress and provide regular updates to senior management during weekly meetings.
  • Take responsibility for the regular review and update of essential sugars related documentation, including process manuals, research audit trails, methodology, definitions, taxonomy and coverage documents.
• Data and Analytical skills
  • Maintain high quality standards for analysis in terms of relevance, accuracy, creativity, and presentation.
  • Demonstrate strong working knowledge of the sugar industry, including the outlook for global supply/demand of sugar, trade flow analysis, policy, industry dynamics, the appropriate measures and conversions for analysing data sets, and research methodology for converting primary and secondary research sources into comprehensive data sets.
  • Analysis deliverables (Excel, PPT, Word, WebApp) are expected to be well-produced and “client-ready”, demonstrating industry expertise and experience.
  • Demonstrate strong critical thinking, data manipulation and modelling skills in appropriate software applications, including A.I. such as Claude.
• Client support and commercial understanding
  • Be the “go-to” contact for any sugar content-related queries from colleagues and clients, responding in a helpful manner and demonstrating sound knowledge and analytical interpretation.
  • Support the development of volume and value renewal rates across sugar companies and working closely with account directors on high-risk.
  • Work closely with commercial colleagues on effective client management and winning new business by joining client calls and/or on-site meetings.
  • When requested, support client support initiatives such as global conferences and webinars, in conjunction with other ‘Heads of’ functions.
  • Contribute to public-facing collateral and marketing documents, such as the Agribusiness monthly newsletter.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how GlobalData’s proposition fits together, how we position ourselves to clients, and therefore what they find valuable.
• Line management/Leadership
  • To actively contribute towards the development and management of the R&A team across multiple locations globally, from a sugars perspective.
  • Act as a role model to junior members of the team, in terms of attitude, engagement, and quality of work.
  • Proactively drive initiatives for analyst development and collaboration, including sharing of best practices across the team.
  • Mentor and develop junior members of the team to deliver sugars-related content to clients and at industry events where appropriate.

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. GlobalData believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.