Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution. Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.
Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business. Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success. We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility. We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone’s valued contributions.
Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders. We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands. We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.
We are looking for passionate, professional, and fun-loving candidates to join our expanding business here in Manchester! As we’re accredited in IIP, we are invested in looking after our members and training / developing you to fulfil your careers.
Role Summary: As Insights Manager, you will be a consumer champion ensuring we put the end drinker at the heart of everything we do. Working closely with the Senior Insights Manager, you are part of a small team responsible for collecting, managing, and analysing data from various sources to provide insights that will drive business decisions and improve performance.
You will work with our key data providers and ensure we maximise return on our investment. You will be skilled at turning data into high quality, action-orientated insight and, importantly, be highly skilled at communicating those insights to different audiences.
You will be able to work closely with sales teams to explore opportunities and build arguments to help retain and win listings. You will also work closely with customers on range reviews and specific projects to help them manage their drinks categories and keep up with the latest trends.
You will need to think cross-category, not just wine, to support all areas of our commercial strategy and will be empowered to be think creatively developing new ways to ensure we live and breathe consumer insight across the business.
Key Responsibilities: Collect and analyse data from multiple sources, including 3rd party suppliers, market research, sales data, and customer feedback, to develop insights into industry trends, consumer behaviour, and product performance.
Maintain data models and dashboards that provide meaningful and actionable insights to the business
Manage specific projects and work as designated by the Senior Brand and Insights Manager
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide data-driven recommendations for new product development, brand planning and overall company strategy
Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in data analysis, and provide guidance to the business on how to use data to improve performance
Act as a voice of the consumer within Kingsland – ensuring all activity is aligned and in tune with the end drinker
Support Sales teams with range reviews and ad hoc customer insight requests
Support the development of KDL’s insights beyond wine and into Ready-to-drinks, spirits and no/low-alcohol categories
Create engaging presentations and other data visualisations for internal and customer use
Qualifications, Experience, Values, and Behaviours:
· Proven experience in data analysis within UK FMCG, preferably within the drinks industry
· Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex data sets into actionable insights.
· Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders.
· Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
· Excellent computer literacy
· Ability and confidence in interactions with internal senior management and key customer contacts
· Highly self-motivated and proactive
Kingsland Drinks Behaviours to display
· Employees should see to understand what adds value to stakeholders.
· Coach, engage, and motivate colleagues and empower them to develop and grow in line with business strategy.
· Actively adopt and commit to a culture of clear responsibility and accountability.
· Actively engage to become one team, working collaboratively and showing respect and integrity
· Be creative in providing new processes and products
Kingsland Drinks Values
- Trust, Flexibility, and People- Employees engage openly and honestly with the highest degree of integrity.
- Sustainability- Employees help to grow the business in an ethical and environmentally sustainable way.
- Respect- Employees are empowered to interact in a responsible, dignified, and collaborative manner.
- Quality and Commitment- Employees aim to provide high value products and services that help to ensure customer satisfaction, profitability, and future growth.
- Innovation- Employees drive innovation to provide effective solutions for all stakeholders
The Candidate:
At Kingsland we offer a wide range of benefits:
- Highly competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
- Annual profit share based on company KPI’s
- Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop!
- Flexible working options
- Life assurance cover
- A generous thank-you gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
- Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling. Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.
- Well-being App to help support your mental health
- Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
- Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
- Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
- On-site free car parking
- Electric Vehicle charging
- Local Community involvement – Irlam Live ticket discounts and Rugby ticket discounts
We welcome applications from everyone. If you have got the talent, the potential, the drive, and determination there is a place for you at Kingsland Drinks Group.
Pay: £45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Experience:
- Data analysis skills within UK FMCG: 1 year (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester M44 6BD
