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Head, Market Intelligence & Insights

Full-time Lagos, NG
Posted 3 hours, 20 minutes ago 6 views 0 applications

Job Description

The Head, Market Intelligence & Insights is responsible for leading the Group's market intelligence function across the Cement and Foods businesses, providing fact-based, forward-looking market, customer, and competitive insights that support strategic planning, pricing decisions, and commercial execution. The role drives the collection, analysis, and interpretation of market data to identify growth opportunities, competitive threats, and emerging trends, ensuring that business decisions are informed by reliable intelligence and actionable insights. The incumbent will establish and maintain robust market intelligence frameworks, reporting systems, and analytical capabilities to enhance decision-making and business performance across the Group.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Group's Market Intelligence & Insights function across the Cement and Foods businesses, delivering fact-based market, customer, and competitive insights to support strategic and commercial decision-making.
  • Monitor market size, growth, market share, customer trends, and competitor activities across products, regions, and channels.
  • Provide actionable intelligence to support pricing, margin optimization, route-to-market effectiveness, and growth strategies.
  • Develop and maintain standardized market intelligence frameworks, dashboards, and reports to enable data-driven decision-making across the Group.
  • Identify emerging market opportunities, risks, and industry trends, and provide timely recommendations to executive management.
  • Ensure the consistency, accuracy, and credibility of market data and insights across the Cement and Foods businesses.
  • Build and lead a high-performing Market Intelligence team while promoting a culture of analytical rigor and insight-led decision-making.
  • Qualifications & Experience

    • Education: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field.
    • Master's degree (MBA, Economics, Strategy, Data Analytics, or related discipline) preferred.
    • Experience: 12–15+ years in Market Intelligence, Strategy, Business Analytics, Research, or related fields.
    • Minimum of 5 years in a leadership role.
    • Experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Industrial, Commodities, or diversified conglomerate environments preferred.
    • Strong exposure to pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, and market analytics.
    • Education

      • - Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field.

      Experience

      • - 12–15+ years of experience in Market Intelligence, Strategy, Commercial Excellence, Business Analytics, Research, or related fields.
      • - Minimum of 5 years in a leadership role.
      • - Experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Industrial, Commodities, or diversified conglomerate environments preferred.
      • - Strong exposure to pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, and market analytics.
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