Head of Marketing Insights

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## Head of Marketing Insights Apply:
Bridgewater, NJ:
Westchester, IL:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
November 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply):
Req-40222

Ingredion is a global Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that touch millions of lives, every day. With over 19,000 customers in 120 countries, we create solutions that help nourish, comfort, and delight people all over the world. We are proud to source our strength from nature.  That’s why we’re growing sustainably, with an industry-leading product portfolio that includes plant-based proteins, sugar alternatives and clean and simple ingredients that deliver on changing consumer needs while protecting our planet.

Although we are best known for our food ingredients, we are much more than a food business. We co-create bespoke solutions with our customers; from cosmetics and beauty, to paper and textiles, to pharmaceuticals, driven by relentless curiosity. We make it our business to anticipate industry trends, and to bring together the potential of people, nature and technology to make life better.

** We don’t just make ingredients. We create possibilities. Be What’s Next with us.
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Bridgewater, New Jersey Workplace type:
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** Head of Global Insights & Intelligence
** leads Ingredion's global Insights Center of Excellence, transforming customer, consumer, market, competitive, and business intelligence into actionable growth opportunities. The role is responsible for identifying emerging trends, unmet needs, sources of competitive advantage, and new opportunities for growth, translating insights into strategic recommendations that shape business strategy, innovation priorities, portfolio decisions, commercial opportunities, and go-to-market execution. Working closely with the wider Global and Regional Marketing teams, Segment and Product teams, R&D, Commercial Excellence, and business leadership, this leader ensures innovation pipelines are grounded in validated customer and consumer needs, supports critical commercialization decisions throughout the stage-gate process, and leverages AI-enabled insights capabilities to deliver differentiated intelligence  role champions a culture of evidence-based decision making, builds world-class insights capabilities, and ensures insights translate into measurable business impact, profitable growth, and competitive advantage.

** Core Responsibilities.

What you will do:

*** Lead global market intelligence and trend forecasting capabilities.
* Shape enterprise strategy and growth priorities through customer, consumer, market, competitive, and business insights.
* Synthesize multiple sources of intelligence (market, customer, consumer, competitive, regulatory, technology and business) into actionable insights and persuasive, audience-specific stories that inform executive decision making, shape growth strategy, guide innovation investment, enable go-to-market execution, and strengthen customer engagement
* Partner with Global Category Marketing to quantify market opportunities and commercialization potential for innovation and growth initiatives.
* Identify and prioritize near-term growth opportunities that unlock profitable growth, partnering with Regional Marketing to drive go-to-market activation and commercial execution.
* Anticipate future market shifts to uncover whitespace opportunities, develop strategic growth hypotheses, and guide investment, innovation, and commercialization decisions.
* Guide strategic planning, portfolio decisions, and investment priorities using data-driven intelligence.
* Ensure innovation pipelines are grounded in validated customer and consumer needs and supported through the stage-gate process.
* Works with the Brand and Marcoms COE to translate…