Insights Manager

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About Imbibe

Imbibe is a dynamic, high‑growth food and beverage development company based in Niles, Illinois. We specialize in developing, creating, and manufacturing beverage flavors, ingredient systems, and finished food and beverage products. Our mission is to design ingredients with impact for the food and beverage industry.

Since our founding in 1963, Imbibe has been at the forefront of flavor innovation and product development. We offer a comprehensive range of services, including full product development, taste modulation, and finished product solutions. Our state‑of‑the‑art campus features an Innovation Center and Pilot Plant that enable us to tackle industry‑wide taste and texture challenges, ensuring that our clients receive the highest quality products.

At Imbibe, we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to continuous improvement. Our values of collaboration, accountability, and entrepreneurship drive us to deliver exceptional results for our clients. We also believe in giving back to the community. Through various initiatives we support efforts to combat food insecurity in the Chicagoland area by donating ingredients and our time.

If you're passionate about the food and beverage industry and eager to make a meaningful impact, Imbibe is the place for you. Let's create something extraordinary together!

Summary Of Position

The Insights Manager will be responsible for helping to shape the future of R&D at Imbibe through data collection and analysis, insights generation, and storytelling. This role will work in conjunction with the Director – Product Development and Innovation to help scope the growth pipeline for the organization, inclusive of generating insights on market trends and unmet needs to inform the ingredient innovation pipeline.

Additionally, this role will support the marketing and sales organization with consumer and market insights that inform the creation of winning marketing programs and sales prospecting strategies. Ideal candidates would feel comfortable using primary and secondary data to build stories and answer questions for the organization that would inform strategy, as well as create impactful presentations to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Market research to support innovation – market sizing research, trending claims and ingredients to address through our own innovations
• Conduct market landscape assessments to support innovation strategy, including market sizing, competitive scans, trend analysis, and whitespace identification
• Product development insights – trending claims and product types, trending flavors to support demo development and product development showcase work
• Flavor insights – trending flavor territories and specific flavors broadly and within categories to support marketing presentations/programs and development/applications work
• Own relationships with research vendors and act as the subject matter expert on primary and secondary research tools

• Assess marketing program effectiveness and web analytics
• Provide insights to shape and optimize marketing programs, customer campaigns, and thought‑leadership content
• Uncover flavor trends to support marketing programs
• Internal insights program – have an outward looking view of the market and be able to share insights with internal teams to inform content creation, sales programs, and connections with customers
• Develop an internal insights‑sharing program to consistently communicate market learnings across cross‑functional teams

• Marketing presentation storyline co‑creation
• Primary research to support marketing programs, showcases, and other customer requests – and the ability to report of research findings; be able to generate, program, and analyze surveys (both qualitative and quantitative)
• Gather data and generate insights to help us create engaging content and shape internal strategy
• Ability to create and deliver presentations to internal and external audiences
• Support the creation of compelling storylines for marketing presentations, customer meetings, and…