Channel Manager Opportunity with IRI

Job Title: Channel Manager
Company Name: IRI
Location: Rhodes, Sydney
Job Category: Head office
Contact: david.shukri@iriworldwide.com.au
Website: https://www.iriworldwide.com/en-AU
Job Description:
Are you looking for a change of direction in 2018? Do you want to play a key role for a market leader? This newly created role could be for you.

Reporting to the Channel Development Director, the Channel Manager for convenience and liquor will have the opportunity to shape IRI’s perspective in both of these crucial industry sectors.

IRI is a global leader in data-driven market and consumer insights that help retailers and FMCGs to realise incredible growth.
IRI’s Channel Development team acts as the custodian of its perspective on the grocery, liquor and P&C channels. Our governance of market reads and insights on those channels helps maintain IRI’s market leading position and demonstrates our credibility as a market measurement expert to clients, partners and the wider industry.
The team is growing and consequently we’re looking for a Channel Manager to maintain, develop and evolve IRI’s perspective on the liquor and convenience channels. They’ll play a crucial role in conveying to stakeholders that IRI has a comprehensive grasp of the shape and structure of these channels, their evolution and the trends that are affecting them.
The ideal candidate will be data-savvy, customer focused and a strong, engaging communicator. Above all however, they’ll be motivated and ambitious, love to get stuck in and relish turning obstacles in to opportunities.
Key responsibilities and duties
Data and information

• Own and develop IRI’s market read methodologies for the liquor and convenience channels
• Gather and assess data for inclusion in IRI’s liquor and convenience market reads
• Advise the data team on changes required to maintain an accurate and credible read in both channels
• Review and maintain accurate total market projections for liquor and convenience
• Lead specific cross-team projects aimed at improving our market read services in both channels.

Interpretation and insight        

• Interpret new and existing data sources
• Collaborate with the Channel Development team to define IRI’s perspectives in liquor and convenience
• Develop meaningful insights related to the evolutions taking place in these channels
• Contribute to the creation of industry reports and trends presentations.

Delivery and engagement

• Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders to gather intelligence on the liquor and convenience channels
• Present channel information to a range of audiences including colleagues, manufacturers and retailers
• Lead internal communication around these channels and bring stakeholders with you when change is required
• Engage externally to gather and share information pertaining the liquor and convenience service methodologies
• Produce such data outputs as required to maintain IRI’s credibility and authority within both channels.