Manager, Data, Insights & Analytics, ECAF

Manager, Data Insights & Analytics -  ECAF 

About the Job 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager, Data Insights & Analytics to lead performance reporting, advanced analytics, and datadriven storytelling that support strategic business decisionmaking. This role requires a strong Subject Matter Expert (SME) with deep expertise in business performance metrics, sales analysis, and market insights, as well as the ability to translate complex datasets into compelling, actionable narratives. 

As a key business partner, you will oversee the development of business performance reports, enhance analytical frameworks, strengthen insightgeneration capabilities, and manage key vendor relationships. You will also play a critical role in driving business planning processes, aligning crossfunctional stakeholders, and elevating reporting quality and accuracy across the organization. 

What You’ll Do for Us 

Leadership & Strategy 

• Lead the endtoend Business Performance Reporting, ensuring timely, accurate, and strategically aligned outputs for senior leadership. 

• Drive transformation of reporting processes, introducing automation, new analytics approaches, and innovations that elevate organizational insights. 

• Serve as the primary insights partner to crossfunctional leaders by providing straNigtegic recommendations rooted in data and market intelligence. 

Performance Reporting 

• Own the Monthly Rolling Estimate (MRE) process, ensuring alignment with local market stakeholders and delivering clear insights on performance drivers. 

• Lead monthly Franchise Performance Reviews, consolidating volume trends, forecasts, market share metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs). 

Market & Sales Insights 

• Oversee delivery of Nielsen reporting, including weekly summaries, Pricing Scorecards, Top/Declining Trademarks reports, and regional insights. 

• Ensure reporting accuracy and robustness for data that informs business decisions, marketing strategy, and commercial execution. 

Advanced Reporting & Analytics: Produce strategic Quarterly Business Reports, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities that guide leadership decisions. 

• Lead the Annual Industry Estimates process, ensuring alignment and synthesizing insights into a unified “Total ECAF” business story. 

Knowledge & Performance Assets: Manage updates to the ECAF Factbook, ensuring comprehensive and uptodate representation of market dynamics, competitive landscapes, and performance indicators. 

Business Planning Support: Support annual and longrange business planning by providing robust datasets, scorecards, and analytical insight across channels, categories, and business units. 

Vendor & Data Ecosystem Management: Oversee relationships with key data partners including Nielsen, Numerator, and Beach, ensuring data quality, process reliability, database improvements, and capabilitybuilding across internal teams. 

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:  Identify and recommend enhancements to systems, data workflows, platforms, and reporting tools to improve speed, accuracy, and user experience. 

Project Leadership:  Lead and/or support crossfunctional special projects requiring deep analytics or insight generation. 

Qualifications and Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field (relevant work experience may substitute for formal education). 

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in data analytics, business performance reporting, or insights roles — including 2+ years of direct experience with Nielsen data. 

• Experience in the beverage or FMCG industry is a strong advantage. 

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex datasets and translate insights into compelling storytelling that influences leadership decisions. 

• Strong command of analytical tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or other visualization and data platforms. 

• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. 

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional teams and influence without authority. 

• Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail. 

• Ability to thrive in dynamic, fastpaced environments while delivering highquality outputs.