IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution)

Insight Analyst – 12 Month FTC

IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution)

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Watford • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Producing best-in-class insight
  • You will support & build insights from your market visits and our network of industry contacts.
  • You will deliver reports on a variety of retail trends and developments, providing actionable insight to our clients through IGD’s Retail Analysis web-based platform.
  • You’ll support the creation of articles and track best practices and innovations on the latest retail developments, incorporating your research into IGD reports and presentations.
  • You’ll be supporting our ongoing primary research with retailers, manufacturers and trade bodies through calls and market visits.
  • You will deliver high-quality virtual or in-person presentations and webinars for our clients to showcase our insight and raise awareness and build the reputation of our global research programme.
  • You may also play a role in supporting consulting projects, providing commercially focused insights that exceed clients’ expectations in terms of quality and depth of insight.
  • You’ll help maintain and update our extensive IGD retailer database, using primary research to forecast key retailer metrics and growth estimates, and provide your own perspective, to inform our subscribers’ decision-making and business planning routines.
  • As a self-motivated learner, with a curious mind, you’ll support IGD’s research programme and your own personal development journey.

Requirements

  • Knowledge and experience of the grocery and consumer goods industry (or a keen interest)
  • Experienced in working with excel data sets and forecasting
  • The ability to plan and manage your own workload
  • Proficiency in presenting information to audiences, either virtually or in person, providing opinions on key topics of relevance that drive impact for the customer
  • Experience in writing online content/presentations/reports
  • PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills, with the ability to turn multiple sources of information into meaningful insights and reporting
  • A team player with a collaborative mindset who takes pride in maintaining high standards in your own work and meeting deadlines
  • Capable of adapting priorities under pressure with a positive approach to change
  • A curiosity for learning and sharing your knowledge, with an ability to think creatively and to innovate, with an ethos of continuous improvement and constantly pushing the boundaries
  • Confident to travel independently and deliver research trips that fuels our research programme
Benefits
  • a market leading pension
  • a bonus scheme
  • the ability to buy and sell annual leave
  • a generous medical insurance package
  • great work-life balance

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Hard skills
data analysisforecastingreport writingpresentation skillsmarket researchinsight generationcontent creationExcelPowerPointWord
Soft skills
self-motivatedcuriositycollaborative mindsettime managementadaptabilitycreativitycontinuous improvementhigh standardscommunicationproblem-solving