Consumer Insights, Strategist Manager
Scotts Miracle-Gro

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We are looking for a Consumer Insights, Strategist Manager who will join our team.
The Strategist is a senior individual contributor responsible for bridging the gap between research execution and strategic consulting within the SMG business units. This role involves partnering with business units to understand their goals, prioritize insights initiatives, and push back on goals or hypotheses when necessary. With a strong foundation in research methodologies and deep business acumen, the Strategist ensures that insights projects align with business objectives and deliver measurable impact. Acting as both a consultant and an advocate for the consumer, this role focuses on guiding business units toward effective, data-driven strategies while collaborating with the broader insights team to bring strategic recommendations to life. The Strategist speaks the language of both business and insights & analytics, translating between them to ensure that consumer needs and data-backed insights drive decisions.
In this role you will:
Business and Research Translation: Act as a bridge between business units and the insights team, translating business needs into research strategies and consumer insights into actionable business language, ensuring alignment with objectives.
Consumer Advocacy and Strategic Consulting: Push for consumer-centric, data-driven decision-making within business units, advocating for the consumer, challenging unsupported assumptions or anecdotal strategies, and ensuring that insights initiatives align with strategic goals. Represent the consumer's voice in key discussions and present research-backed insights to senior leadership.
Cross-Business Unit and Enterprise Collaboration: Work with fellow strategist and the leader of the insights organization to identify and leverage cross-business unit and enterprise-wide opportunities for insights that can drive company-wide innovation and strategy.
Insights Prioritization and Alignment: Collaborate with business units to prioritize insights initiatives that align with strategic objectives, ensuring effective communication and alignment with the broader business strategy.
Research Evaluation and Strategic Guidance: Leverage research expertise to critically evaluate business goals and hypotheses, providing guidance on effective research-backed strategies and, when necessary, returning to the Insights and Analytics team for additional support.
What you'll need to be successful:
-Master's Degree, Master's degree in Social Psychology, Behavioral Science, Statistics, Consumer Insights, or a related field or equivalent experience.
-Desired: Certification in consulting, project management, and/or advanced research methodologies.
-3 - 5 Years of experience preferred
-Required: Minimum of 3+ years of experience in consulting roles recently, with expertise in consumer insights, research methodologies (quantitative and qualitative), and business strategy.
-Preferred: Experience integrating research into business strategies and working within business units to drive consumer-centered decisions.
-Expertise in both research methodologies (quantitative and qualitative) and business strategy.
-Ability to bridge the gap between business needs and research expertise.
-Strong advocacy for consumer needs, challenging unsupported business assumptions.
-Excellent communication and presentation skills, especially in delivering insights to senior leadership.
-Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects and relationships across an organization.

The starting budgeted pay range for this role will generally fall between $121,400.00 - $142,800.00 per year. Scotts will consider various factors in determining the actual pay including your skills, qualifications, experience, and geographical location.In addition to the determined base salary, this role is also incentive eligible under our corporate bonus programs.

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