Insight Manager - Win with Food - FTC

Insight Manager – Win with Food – FTC (9 months)

Nomad Foods is looking for an Insight Manager – Win with Food to join our central team in Woking, driving powerful insights that inspire innovation and growth across 22 European markets.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy Insight: Understands the unmet needs of the business in terms of strategic understanding. Leads the embedding of key tools and approaches, such as Demand Spaces that provide a strategic framework of consumption occasions and lands them with key stakeholders in their Central teams.
• EMBEDS FORESIGHTS: Embeds Foresights capabilities in the business, providing a future view of our consumers and potential future scenarios. Inspires stakeholders with consumer understanding and provokes action. Integrates into business practices such as innovation and Strategic Planning.
• CONSUMER CLOSENESS: Leads adoption of ‘Consumer Closeness’ to create a culture change across their teams in terms of becoming more consumer‑centric in our business decision‑making. Adopts the toolkit to engage with consumers at key moments (e.g. innovation projects, annual planning).
• INNOVATION: Assume a key leadership role in the development of robust innovation plans through the development of approaches to innovation and insight development through the process. Bring Design Thinking approaches into the innovation development process for their segments.
• PRODUCT SUPERIORITY: Leads product superiority programme for their segments to ensure our products are a source of competitive advantage. Identifies required improvements to our key products to maintain superiority.

About you:

We need someone who has a passion for understanding consumers and harnessing that to shape our plans across the business. This person will work with both Central and Cluster teams to ensure deep consumer understanding is embedded in the creation of our brand plans. They are well‑versed in a range of approaches to understanding consumers, both today and in the future, and can apply this thinking to the development of innovation and in making the teams they work with closer to our consumer. Experienced required for this position are listed below:

• Significant insights experience across broad range of methods, tools and approaches (Demand Spaces, Foresights, Innovation, Qual/Quant, etc).
• Effective communication and stakeholder management.
• Strong insight and recommendations delivery to create and land compelling and actionable outcomes.
• FMCG experience strongly preferred.

What we can offer you:

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential.
• A culture where you feel encouraged to make a difference.
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group.

Who are we:

Nomad Foods – a young, fast‑growing food‑tech company with €3.2 billion revenue and operations in 22 key markets. We are guided by our Purpose – Serving the World with Better Food.

Location: Woking, England, United Kingdom – hybrid working.

Employment type: 9‑month temporary contract (FTC). Competitive salary and benefits package.