Manager, Global Marketing Trends
Listed on 2025-12-22
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IT/Tech
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Management
Data Science Manager
Manager, Global Marketing Trends and Growth
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About IngredionJoin Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference.
Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.
Location:
Westchester, IL or Bridgewater, NJ. Workplace type:
Hybrid (3 days a week onsite/2 days remote).
As the Global Future Trends & Growth Manager, you will lead the identification and analysis of emerging trends, evolving consumer behaviors, and market dynamics to inform both short‑term sales priorities and long‑term strategic planning. Your insights will enable the sales and wider G2M organization to target the most promising growth markets and determine which customers, brands, and channel partners should be prioritized within each.
Beyond guiding commercial focus, you will play a pivotal role in shaping future product development, brand positioning, and global growth strategies.
- Monitor global macro and micro trends across industries, cultures, and technologies.
- Analyze evolving consumer behaviors and market dynamics to identify emerging opportunities and risks.
- Develop foresight frameworks, trend reports, and scenario planning models to support strategic decision‑making.
- Engage across the organization and with selected agencies to build a holistic view of market drivers.
- Design and implement an enterprise‑wide foresight framework to anticipate disruptive shifts.
- Collaborate with IT or data science functions to deliver predictive insights at scale.
- Collect and synthesize signals from consumers, customers, retailers, competitors, and internal partners to deliver a comprehensive assessment of existing strategic direction and propose directions on emerging opportunities.
- Translate these signals into actionable insights with clear implications for sales, marketing, and innovation strategies.
- Provide regular updates and foresight dashboards to senior leadership and commercial teams.
- Identify and recommend growth opportunities to advance R&D and commercial efforts within strategic priorities.
- Inform short‑term sales prospecting by identifying high‑potential markets, customers, and brands.
- Engage the wider insight, category marketing and commercial organization to pressure‑test and fine‑tune insights for relevance.
- Support long‑term strategic planning, including product development, brand positioning, and global growth strategies.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to embed foresight into business planning and innovation roadmaps.
- Present insights and foresight findings to senior leadership and global teams to align on foresight‑driven priorities.
- Lead workshops and ideation sessions with cross‑functional task force, including R&D, Commercial, Marketing, strategy, and Digital team, to transform decision‑making by foresights.
- Partner with external trend agencies, research firms, and academic institutions to enhance foresight capabilities.
- Mentor and develop a team of regional trend and growth specialists.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, Business, Economics, Sociology, Futures Studies, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in strategic marketing, consumer insights, trend forecasting, or market intelligence.
- Strong analytical and storytelling capabilities with proven ability to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights.
- Strong knowledge of foresight methodologies (e.g., PESTLE, STEEP, scenario planning, Delphi method).
- Experience with strategic frameworks (SWOT, Porter’s Five…
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