Director of Insights, Food

**Director of Insights - Food and Drink, APAC**

As the Director of Insights - Food and Drink, you will oversee experts from our Mintel Food and Drink (MFD) platform, Purchase Intelligence (PI), and Thai and India Reports teams, and will be tasked to look for innovative ways to develop both the team and the insights they produce. You will lead the quality initiatives for food and drink in the region and be a key decision maker for the global MFD content strategy as part of the global MFD insights leadership team. The role’s primary responsibilities are to ensure we consistently deliver top quality, relevant, and actionable insights through published content and expert service that helps our food and drink clients grow their businesses.

The role also requires to travel both within APAC and globally. Once travel is more open, the Director of Insights should expect travel on a regular (up to every other month) basis.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**1. **Leading our Food and Drink-related insights created by APAC-based MFD Analysts, Australia PI Analysts, and Thai and India Food and Drink Reports Analysts**

You will manage an analyst team, managing the schedule, research calendar along with assigning deadlines to ensure publication commitments are met, and are responsible for driving the quality of insight these teams produce.

**2. **Oversee Client Service for MFD in APAC, PI in Australia, and Food and Drink Reports in Thailand and India**
- This role is responsible for managing the APAC Service Model for our food and drink clients in the region, and work in partnership with the commercial teams to prioritise and identify creative solutions to client service requests, and reporting monthly on the service model utilisation.

**3. **Manage and coach our food and drink Analysts**

This role directly manager a team of analysts across Asia (current team size 5 managers, 8 analysts), and your role will be to coach and develop your team to help them grow professionally by providing constructive feedback on the content analysts prepare for syndicated products and for client requests.

**4. **Contribute to global content strategy and development**
- As a senior member of the global research leadership team, you will fully participate in the development and execution of Mintel's global content strategy and participate in global strategic development projects and working groups.

**5. **Work with sales, marketing, and management to drive revenue and renewals**
- This includes press and conference support, involvement in consultancy opportunities and projects where applicable, and new and existing client support. Your task to be a thought leader in the region and help promote Mintel’s expertise through the media an on occasion as a key note speaker at conferences.

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- Culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working.
- Flexi-time working hours (start working between 8:00am and 10:00am).
- Blended (office/home) approach to work.
- Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned.
- Social events, both within the department and across the company.
- Home office IT equipment allowance, as the working model will be a blend of office and home working.
- Generous annual leave and wider circle employee benefits.
- Additional one day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Membership in Employee Resource Groups (Mintel Diversity, Mintel Wellness and Mintel Gives).
- Giving back is part of our culture with this in mind, Mintel gives employee 2 days leave per year to join local volunteering activity organised by our Mintel Gives (where applicable).
- Mental health and wellbeing support via Modern Health App and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Beautifully designed offices to foster collaboration and fun.

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