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Senior Manager, Global Insights and Analytics at Tate & Lyle · London
Job Description
Senior Manager, Global Insights and Analytics
Location: London, United Kingdom
About Us
Tate & Lyle is on a journey of change, inspired by our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. Today, we are a global leader in sweetening, texture, and fortification products that remove calories and add fiber. Our innovations help create healthier, tastier food and drink for billions of consumers. Across the world, we are unlocking the curiosity and courage in our team members to foster a truly experimental culture and create a tech-enabled, more agile, risk-ready operation. Join us to play your part in growing our business and its positive impact on communities, society, and the planet.
About This Role
The Global Senior Manager, Insights & Analytics, is a senior analytical and strategic partner within the Global Insights & Analytics team. The role leads the delivery of commercially driven intelligence across consumer, market, competitor and category spaces -through an ingredient lens- translating complex, multi-source data (proprietary and secondary) into clear implications that directly inform business priorities, customer engagement and commercial decisions. The role owns the development of global consumer and ingredient trend frameworks, identifies opportunity and compete spaces through category simulations and scenario planning and modelling, and serves as a subject matter expert on key data platforms and analytical methodologies. Beyond delivery, this role is instrumental in raising analytical capabilities across regions, championing self-service tools adoption and driving thought leadership. Operating at the intersection of insight, strategy and commerce, it sets the standard for analytical rigour, agility, efficiency and actionability across the global team, and plays a critical part in equipping senior stakeholders with the confidence to act in a period of significant transformation.
Accountabilities
1. Strategic Insight and Commercial Enablement
Lead the delivery of global intelligence on consumers, market dynamics, competitors and customers framing outputs as actionable implications with a clear 'so what' and 'now what' for senior commercial and cross-functional audiences.
Translate multi-source data into decision-ready insight with a clear audit trail from data to recommendation. Ensure insight is embedded in business decisions, not delivered in isolation.
2. Gameboard, Opportunity Identification and Competitive Intelligence
Own the analytical approach underpinning Gameboard simulation: identifying opportunity and compete spaces and their commercial implications for T&L across business, brands and operational footprint.
Integrate competitor intelligence and scenario planning into Gameboard outputs, ensuring outputs are decision-ready. Manage CI databases, data queries and source integrity including import/export processes.
Lead the implementation and management of CI tools and ways of working (e.g. Valona, Descartes, K-Comber, Pitchbook, Datamyne), including all contracts and subscriptions.
Deliver M&A-related insights and global competitor overviews. Act as a strategic CI partner to platforms, regions and global strategy teams.
3. Global Consumer and Ingredient Trends
Own global food and beverage ingredient trends and proprietary research: integrating regional inputs into a global framework and translating them into actionable insight for internal and external audiences.
Lead proprietary research owning the research approach, application guidance, and elevation of insights across platforms, regions and commercial teams.
Anchor all regional research to the global trend framework. Develop category gameboard simulations identifying opportunity spaces and implications for T&L's portfolio and footprint.
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4. AI-Enabled Insight Delivery and Analytical Efficiency
Embed AI and automation tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot) into analytical workflows to reduce turnaround time, eliminate repetitive tasks and improve output consistency without sacrificing rigour.
Build and maintain repeatable analytical frameworks and templates that raise the floor on quality across all global programmes. Champion a test-and-learn approach to emerging tools and methods.
5. Team Capability, Quality Standards and Cross-Functional Collaboration
Set and maintain clear and outstanding analytical quality standards across the global team. Review outputs before they reach senior stakeholders and ensure they are consistently decision-ready.
Coach other business users, build shared ways of working, and provide tools training to drive self-service adoption. Collaborate with external partners to develop relevant training programmes.
Proactively share global insight with regional teams and leverage regional inputs as hypotheses for global programmes.
Skills and Experience
Significant progressive experience in insights, analytics, strategy or consulting, ideally within FMCG, food & beverage or ingredients
Technical Skills
Data synthesis and analytics: ability to connect and triangulate multiple fragmented datasets (syndicated, internal, customer, AI outputs) into structured, decision-ready outputs. Comfortable building data models and making clear deductions under time pressure.
Insight communication: translates complex analysis into concise outputs that go beyond data description to articulate the 'so what' and 'now what': framing findings as actionable, prioritised recommendations.
Tools: advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Copilot. Practical experience with Mintel, Nielsen, GlobalData, Descartes and CRM environments.
AI and automation: hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate analysis and improve output quality, with sound judgement on where human interpretation and challenge are required.
Competitive intelligence: demonstrated CI delivery including competitor tracking, database management, source evaluation and tool implementation (e.g. Valona, Descartes or equivalent).
Primary and secondary research: experience designing and managing B2B and B2C research programmes (qualitative and quantitative) including agency briefing, vendor selection, methodology and output integration.
Analytical and Strategic Skills
Structured problem-solving: applies hypothesis-led frameworks and MECE structuring to break ambiguous business questions into clear workstreams with defined outputs.
Consulting mindset: proven ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop clear storylines, manage senior stakeholder relationships and deliver actionable recommendations under pressure. Experience in a top-tier consultancy or strong in-house consulting role is required.
Commercial acumen: grounded understanding of FMCG, food & beverage or ingredients markets including category dynamics, competitor landscape, market sizing, and how insight connects to commercial prioritisation.
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Leadership and Stakeholder Skills
Stakeholder influence: proven ability to present to and influence senior stakeholders; manages multiple analytical workstreams simultaneously, delivering accurately and at pace.
People development: experience coaching and developing other business users, building shared quality standards, and driving capability uplift across a global or cross-functional team.
Cross-functional collaboration: natural connector who shares insight proactively, builds strong relationships across regions and functions, and drives alignment without authority.
What You'll Get
As business operating in 50 countries worldwide, we offer a global rewards package to all employees alongside a range of country-specific benefits. The global package includes a bonus scheme, 16-week Equal Parental Leave and mental health & well-being support.
Flexible working policy
Competitive salary
Discretionary annual bonus
Excellent employer pension contribution
Personal private medical insurance
Life assurance
Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.