Product Strategy Lead

Job Description:

Role: Product Strategy Lead

Location: Gururgam, India

Job Scope: This role is responsible for evangelizing the adoption of data driven decisions across Mars Wrigley by leading the development of advanced analytics methods, using vast amounts of data from data lake (internal/ external data) to provide actionable insights for solving business problems and finding opportunities for profitable growth across RTM & interdependent domains. 

What are we looking for? 

Education & Professional Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Mathematics, and related field. Advanced degree preferred

  
  

• Overall, 10+ years of experience; Minimum 5 years of experience in analytics

  
  

• Minimum 2 years of Analytics experience in the Consumer Products Good Industry

  
  

Knowledge/Experience

• Experience in demand side analytics for a CPG including strategic pricing, trade promotions and retailer dynamics 

  
  

• Minimum 2 years of experience in developing analytical models using multi variate regression and build machine learning algorithms using data science experience 

  
  

• Analyse large and complex data sources such as Nielsen and SAP

  
  

• Generate business insights for trade strategy implementation and price execution 

  
  

• Develop financial models for scenario planning and forecasting

  
  

What will your key responsibilities be? 

• Lead design thinking sessions and gather business requirements for the relevant problem space

  
  

• Manage and build Advanced analytics capabilities

  
  

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of the business, work with key business stakeholders to understand their challenges and formulate business problems

  
  

• Ideate and build early perspectives on actionable insights to the problem and work with the decision science team to prove/ disprove the hypothesis, continuously iterating as new information and/or insights come to light

  
  

• Help the decision science team with business context and provide necessary feedback during the analysis phase to ensure the outcomes deliver insights that are needed by the business

  
  

• Have a strong understanding of the various statistical techniques, its application and translate the model outcomes into insights/ business terms

  
  

• Ability to lead complex analytical exercises/projects and which lead to actionable direction within the RTM

  
  

• Skilled at building and managing relationships, including stakeholder management

  
  

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

  
  

• CPG and Retailer knowledge, including knowledge of, and experience using key external third-party data sources including, first-party data, and Associates surveys

  
  

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.