Global Senior Strategy & Insights (SiA) Manager - Early Life Nutrition

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Global Senior Strategy & Insights (SiA) Manager - Early Life Nutrition

Are you passionate about shaping a category that truly matters to parents and impacts the lives of babies and toddlers like no other? Welcome to Danone Early Life Nutrition — home to one of the world’s leading infant formula brands. Do you thrive at the intersection of data, empathy, and innovation? Join us in a pivotal role where insights become action, and action drives meaningful change for parents and babies around the world.

As a global Senior Strategic Insights & Analytics Manager for Early Life Nutrition you will be a core member of the team behind Danone’s understanding of the Early Life Nutrition Journey. You’ll unlock deep category insights, assess and accelerate innovation, and ensure our brands—especially Aptamil—flourish by staying rooted in what matters most: the needs of parents and healthcare professionals alike.

Your key responsibilities are:

• Champion People Centricity by putting parents at the heart of everything we do—ensuring our strategies reflect real lives, real needs, and real impact.
• Strengthen our foundational understanding of the Early Life Nutrition category to inspire innovation and bring them to our local markets faster.
• Identify where to play and how to win across the early life nutrition journey, evaluating opportunities and alternatives with precision.
• Transform data from global performance tools into compelling narratives that inspire action and inform strategy.
• Deliver insights that elevate the Aptamil brand platform, grounded in category fundamentals, parental needs, and healthcare professional (HCP) advocacy.
• Proactively align and engage stakeholders with foresight, options, and clear recommendations that drive collaboration.
• Shape and manage the annual insights roadmap for your (sub-)categories and topics, ensuring relevance, agility, and strategic depth.
• Energize the Strategy & Insights community through bold projects, thought leadership, and a commitment to challenging the status quo.

About you

What You’ll Need to Succeed

To thrive in this role and truly make an impact, we believe you bring:

• Deep Expertise in Consumer Insight & Foresight: Proven experience in consumer goods and/or the pharmaceutical industry, ideally with exposure to professional audiences such as HCPs.
• A Track Record of Influence: At least 6 years of experience driving strategic decisions and engaging senior stakeholders with consumer insights that lead to growth.
• Hands-On Curiosity: You don’t just read reports—you build them. You test, learn, interact directly with consumers, and analyze the output yourself with your agency partners.
• Strategic Storytelling: You know how to translate audience understanding into business opportunities and compelling narratives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: You’re skilled at navigating matrix organizations, breaking silos, and building trust across functions.
• Innovation Mindset: You challenge the status quo, embrace agility, and bring a strong can-do attitude to everything you do.
• Leadership & Passion: You’re excited by the opportunity to help transform the Strategy & Insights function at Specialized Nutrition and across Danone into a vibrant, inquisitive, and audience-obsessed community.

If you’re looking for a role where you can simply call an agency, present their reports, and move on—this isn’t it.
If you shy away from rolling up your sleeves, launching tests, and diving into raw data—this isn’t it.

But if you’re ready to lead with insight, challenge conventions, and make a real difference in the lives of families in their precious early moments —then we can’t wait to meet you.

About Danone

At Danone we are committed to our mission “bringing health, through food to as many people as possible”. Working together to make sure that our brands, like Hipro, Nutricia, Alpro, Activia, Nutrilon and Evian, create real benefits for people, communities and the planet. You will be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world. Being B Corp means to be part of a select movement of companies verified to be meeting the highest standards of social and environmental criteria and using business as a force for good. One Planet. One Health

We Offer

All Danoners receive a complete package of benefits. This includes a competitive salary and yearly bonus, a premium free pension, 30 days of annual leave (with the opportunity to purchase more) and you will receive a monthly health care allowance. In addition, you can get discount on your gym membership, and we offer initiatives focused on nutrition, physical, and mental health. We provide continuous learning opportunities through workshops, online courses and training sessions. In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. You can work from one of our People Hubs in Hoofddorp, Utrecht and Rijswijk or you can work from home.

Need more information? Please contact Esther Vermeer, Talent Manager Sales & Marketing via esther.vermeer@danone.com.