Responsibilities

• Lead performance landscape and portfolio strategy, transforming complex consumer, cultural, category, and market understanding into clear growth frameworks and compelling strategic narratives.
• Own consumer segmentation and performance space strategies, ensuring insights are actionable and embedded into annual and long-range business planning.
• Synthesize diverse inputs including consumer understanding, cultural signals, category trends, competitive intelligence, and macroeconomic forces into a clear point of view that helps the organization anticipate future opportunities and challenges.
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative data, research, and market intelligence to uncover insights that drive consumer relevance, stronger brand connections, and business growth.
• Frame and answer the most important strategic questions facing the business, proactively identifying emerging opportunities and risks.
• Track evolving consumer behaviors, cultural shifts, and marketplace dynamics to provide forward-looking category and growth foresight.
• Identify and activate value from existing research, data assets, and strategic work, translating underutilized insights into impactful business strategies.
• Develop compelling executive-level narratives, frameworks, and presentations that shape leadership thinking and help foster a consumer-centric mindset across the organization.
• Serve as a strategic partner to the VP, helping align the broader Insights organization and key stakeholders around growth priorities, future ambitions, and strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Commutable distance to Stamford, CT.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, strategy consulting, or agency planning background preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in consumer insights, strategy, or consulting, ideally within CPG or a consumer-driven or regulated industry.
• Deep expertise in consumer segmentation, performance spaces, portfolio strategy, and growth planning, with a proven track record of turning insights into strategies that drive action and results.
• Strong strategic thinker with the ability to synthesize complex and sometimes conflicting information into clear, actionable recommendations while managing multiple priorities and workstreams.
• Sharp analytical instincts with experience leveraging diverse sources of consumer, cultural, and business understanding to uncover meaningful opportunities.
• Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity, build alignment without direct authority, and influence senior stakeholders.

Preferred

• MBA, strategy consulting, or agency planning background preferred.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive base salary, annual bonus (applicable based on level of position), great medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with a generous company match, incredible wellness benefits, commuter benefits, pet insurance, generous PTO, and much more!
• We have implemented Smart Work, a hybrid model of working that promotes flexibility in the workplace.
• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture where everyone’s contribution is respected; Collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: To improve the lives of millions of smokers