Senior Manager, Category Insights - Non Sweetened Tea

Location(s):

Japan

City/Cities:

Tokyo

Travel Required:

Relocation Provided:

Job Posting End Date:

May 31, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

There’s nothing more exciting then analyzing markets and identifying trends if your passion is marketing research and there’s no better company to do this with then The Coca-Cola Company. In this role, you’ll provide consumer insights that provides our businesses with in-depth understanding of market dynamics and consumer needs/wants/insights in order to identify key trends and opportunities for profitable brand growth. Our ideal candidate will be incredibly passionate about data, possess a proven record of transforming raw data into analytic insight.  You’ll strongly influence the business and marketing decisions of the company by supporting and helping to institutionalize a data-driven analysis culture.  

 

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Identifies advanced analytic approaches and updates our existing ones to support management and other functional stakeholder to answer business questions focusing on consumer targeting, prediction of future performance of Marketing campaigns, evaluation of brand initiatives based on ROI, optimal Marketing investment strategies 

• Collaborates cross functionally on innovative Proof of Concepts answering business questions using innovative data science approaches 

• Shares key learnings of research or analysis reassuring that the information flows appropriately and freely within markets 

• Identifies and works on high-impact business problems and develops viable solutions through data analysis, predictive modeling, and advanced analytics techniques  

• Leads cross-functional projects using basic data modeling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities 

• Effectively leverages Coca-Cola’s proprietary studies and secondary/syndicated data sources (e.g. Nielsen, Kantar, Euromonitor, Social listening data, etc.) to identify consumer and shopper-centric growth opportunities 

• Tracks performance with standardized metrics & reporting routines to assess effectiveness of on-going strategies relative to desired business results 

• Runs optimization and simulation scenarios to help provide recommendations to Marketing and Media Planning Teams based on existing Market Mix Modelling 

• Provides insights and recommendations to optimize current marketing and trade investments through various analysis, consumer behavior modeling, and marketing mix modeling; lead efforts related to sales and margin impacts of marketing activities, including offer recommendations, projections, trends, opportunities/risks, post-event analysis, and recommendations based on analysis and business needs 

• Develops of new analysis frameworks for innovative insight and business plan development and Innovation, opportunity identification along with internal stakeholders 

• Continuously assesses the industry supplier, tool, and analytical application base, seek out the needs of the business, and play an active role in keeping Coca-Cola up to date on the latest thinking on tools and techniques 

• Demonstrates thought leadership on the development and implementation of game-changing and actionable consumer & shopper insights 

• Creates compelling fact-based analytics on category insights, brand performance and consumer-centric opportunities from available information sources (continuous and ad-hoc) to direct and support the System toward achieving its maximum potential overtime 

• Builds true partner relationships with Marketing, Franchise Operations, R&D, Finance and Bottler teams to drive insights into action and connects with partner agencies and key suppliers to ensure best-in class design consumer and shopper research 

• Leads, designs & applies consumer research protocols (communication, concept, product & innovation testing, formula & ingredients reformulation) and set up ad-hoc studies, ensuring actionable insights & sharing the learnings within The Coca-Cola System 

• Manages effective spend of assigned S&I Budget and implement productivity initiatives that deliver significant and quantifiable savings to the business 

 

Qualification & Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Data Science, Statistics, Econometrics or related field is required  

• Must possess at least 8 years of experience in consumer/shopper marketing research and analytics, category management, and/or consumer/shopper research within the consumer goods industry is required 

• Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau and/or Microsoft BI as well as MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Basic level in SPSS, R or Python is preferred 

• Must possess the ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify patterns, opportunities and gaps, and integrate across disparate data sources, as well as working knowledge of analytic approaches 

• The ability to communicate complex information and implications both verbally, in interactions with senior leaders, and in written presentations, utilizing "storytelling techniques" to communicate a clear, compelling and cohesive shopper story is ideal  

• The ability to develop and direct custom research projects, as well as the ability to interpret and explain data to customers/bottlers in a way that is meaningful to their business needs is required  

• Must possess the ability to identify opportunities and gaps for both Coca-Cola and customers/channels via a holistic understanding of business fundamentals and application of quantitative and qualitative industry, consumer and shopper insights 

• Knowledge of industry and customer research resources and a basic knowledge of methods for gathering information are ideal 

• Project management skills are preferred  

 

What We Can Do For You 

• Iconic Brand: Work on the most recognized brand in the world and be part of developing the brands next chapter. 

• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global marketing leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging digital platforms and marketing insights.  

• Creative Team Culture: Be inspired by the best brand leaders and agencies in the world, which creates a creative culture that supports taking risks and innovation. 

Skills:

Brand Positioning, Brand Storytelling, Channel Management, Channels Strategy, Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Competitive Assessments, Consumer Segmentation, Consumer Trends, Decision Making, Digital Media Strategy, Group Problem Solving, Media Planning, Microsoft Office, Quantitative Research, Retail Marketing Strategy, Social Media Strategies, Syndicated Research, Waterfall Model

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.