Market & Consumer Insights Manager

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Job Title: Market & Consumer Insights Manager
Location: Shanghai, International/Other

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

The Job

This role reports to APAC Head of Market & Consumer Insight and focus on China market & supports APAC activities. Serve as the voice of the consumer and customer for ADM Human Nutrition in APAC. Lead end-to-end insight programs-combining primary research, syndicated sources, social/digital listening and advanced analytics-to shape strategy, innovation and commercial activation across priority categories. Impact at regional scale, exposure to cutting-edge nutrition and insights innovation, flexible ways of working, strong growth pathways and competitive rewards.

Your Responsibilities

• Trends & foresight: Track consumer, category, product and channel shifts; identify whitespace and growth opportunities in market dynamics.

• Design Research: Conducts multiple qualitative, quantitative projects with methodological rigor into modern methods (AI-assisted, hybrid approach) and on-time execution

• Translating Insights: Translate complex data into compelling, persuasive narratives, story-led recommendations; enable customer-centric activation and influences decision

• Data analytics at scale: Apply analysis to harmonize quantitative, qualitative, social listening data, to derive themes, segmentation, sentiment and drivers; produce executive-ready summaries.

• Multi-source synthesis: Synthesize proprietary studies and syndicated data types, digital and social outputs to surface patterns and whitespace, explains the "why" with clear APAC implications

• Innovation Acceleration: Integrates trend insights, identify cultural semiotic signals to support innovation process, with consumer validation to fit underlying unmet needs

• Workflow automation: Establish Power BI and AI dashboard for primary/secondary sources, reporting insights, filtering data, and implementing quality standards across projects

• AI Insights Library: Assists in populating market intelligence sources to establish a secure, searchable knowledge hub for rapid reuse of learnings across customers and categories.

• Stakeholder communication: Present insights and scenarios to internal stakeholders and external clients; influence decisions with clear evidence.

• Strategy Partnering: Conduct sizing and landscape scans to inform strategy and portfolio choices, highlight risks/opportunities for mid to long term planning.

• Cross-functional partnership: Work with Category/Marketing, Commercial, R&D and Communications team to sharpen value propositions, review publications to guide consumer-centric activations.

• Vendor management: Brief, selects and manages agencies; uphold budget discipline, quality, compliance and ensure timeliness deliverables.

Your Profile

• 6-8 years in market intelligence, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, customer insights

• Strong APAC experience in B2C or B2B industry in FMCG, flavor house, food ingredients supplier

• Bachelor's degree in food, Consumer Science, Market Research, Marketing, Statistics, Business related.

• Proficiency with market intelligence databases, qual/quant research methodologies; digital platform, social listening tool, advanced statistical analytics; Power BI knowledge is required.

• Outstanding storytelling, stakeholder influence and project leadership in matrixed environments.

• Display ability to multi-task, shift priorities, adjust multiple demands, work in agility.

• Great interpersonal bonding skills. Possess strong teamwork and team building skills.

• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Chinese. Japanese is a plus.

• Ability to travel 10-15% of time for better customer and consumer engagement experiences

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Job Post Date: 02/26/26