Senior Manager, Disruptive Innovation Insights

Location: Chicago, IL — Chicago/Aon Center

Salary: $120,800–$151,000 base salary, plus performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global develops and manages a global portfolio of food and consumer packaged goods brands.

What you will do

• Lead strategic consumer and marketplace insights for Global Innovation initiatives across brands and channels.
• Use consumer behavior, culinary trends, shopper behavior, and competitive intelligence to identify innovation opportunities and growth strategies.
• Develop and lead agile, risk-based research plans covering whitespace identification, opportunity assessment, innovation forecasting, and validation.
• Design consumer testing and in-market experiments to accelerate learning and implementation.
• Evaluate innovation sales impact and identify lessons to improve trial, velocity, and incrementality.
• Partner with research vendors and cross-functional teams to develop agile research approaches and organizational best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in market research or consumer insights, preferably in CPG.
• Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative research methods and experience with primary and secondary data.
• Expertise with syndicated research tools and services such as Nielsen, Circana, IRI Scanner, Mintel, Numerator, Panel Data, and Technomic.
• Experience with innovation and custom research methods for CPG products, including pricing and in-market testing.
• Strong analytical, storytelling, communication, organization, and presentation skills.
• Ability to lead multiple projects, influence senior stakeholders, and work independently in ambiguous environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare coverage, including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision plans.
• Paid time off, company holidays, leave programs, and flexible work arrangements.
• Training, learning opportunities, recognition programs, and wellbeing resources.
• Employee assistance, family support, life insurance, disability coverage, and 401k.
• Performance-based bonus eligibility.