Marketing & Insights Manager

Marketing & Insights Manager

Haddenham, UK

Job Description

Are you curious about what drives the next big food and beverage trend? Do you enjoy understanding why consumers choose certain products, flavours or brands?

This is an exciting opportunity to build your career in insights, innovation and the food industry. You will help turn market and consumer data into clear stories that support new product ideas and customer conversations across EMEA.

If you are highly creative, have great communication skills and comfortable working with data, this could be the role for you.

1) Category Insights Support

• Support the analysis of the Savoury Snacks and Food Service market to help inform growth opportunities for McCormick.

• Use published market data, research agency reports, customer information and social listening to identify key consumer trends.

• Help turn data sets into clear, engaging presentations and recommendations for internal teams and customers.

• Support commercial and R&D teams by sharing relevant market and consumer insights.

• Stay up to date on food and beverage, flavour and ingredient trends, particularly within Savoury Snack and Food Service.

2) Insights-Driven Innovation Support, Customer Facing

• Support in the development of our customers innovation pipeline by using consumer and category insights.

• Help identify opportunities for new product development across food service and savoury snack customers.

• Lead customer presentations, including preparing insight sections and market overviews.

• Build an understanding of customer brands, consumers and market needs to help deliver relevant recommendations.

• Facilitate customer ideation sessions, workshops and innovation discussions using consumer and market insights.

• Support commercial teams with insight-led recommendations that strengthen customer partnerships and drive profitable growth.

3) Project Coordination

• Coordinate day-to-day activities for assigned insight and customer projects.

• Lead the planning for customer meetings, ensuring presentations and materials are completed on time.

• Work with cross-functional teams, including commercial, R&D and marketing.

• Help prepare quarterly market data and insights reviews for internal and external stakeholders.

Experience

• Relevant experience or strong interest in food service, QSR, savoury snacks, consumer insights, market research, innovation or NPD.

• Experience in qualitative and quantitative research, market data or consumer trends is required.

• Understanding of marketing, innovation and product development processes is beneficial.

• Interest in food and beverage trends, consumer behaviour and customer needs is essential.

• Familiarity with market data sources or research agencies is an advantage.

Candidate Profile

• Curious and comfortable working with data to identify insights.

• Highly creative, with an interest in developing clear and visually engaging presentations.

• Able to communicate clearly with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Comfortable presenting information to customers.

• Organised, proactive and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines across multiple markets and business units.

• Adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with different customer needs.

• Customer-focused, collaborative and willing to learn.

• Ability to connect consumer, category and market insights to innovation opportunities and commercial outcomes.

• A positive team player with a can-do mindset and commitment to delivering results.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.