Senior Insights Analyst - Sustainable Specialty Chemicals

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

As our Senior Insights Analyst you collect, interpret and distribute intelligence on market conditions, customers and technology developments to enable business decision making. You help your colleagues understand trends, customer needs and what differentiates us and our products from our competitors and substitutes.

Corbion is growing at a rapid rate due to increasing demand for innovative, sustainable products. Our LAS business unit develops, produces and markets biochemicals and biopolymers for applications such as biodegradable plastics, eco-friendly home care and animal health.

As our Insights Analyst you are part of the LAS marketing team, which covers different aspects of marketing such as Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Strategic Marketing and Marketing Communications. This is a relatively new team, which means that it is still flexible..

You report to the Global Insights Manager LAS.

Responsibilities

As our Senior Insights Analyst LAS,  you develop the needed levels of depth and breadth  in market intelligence to support our continued growth.

You ensure that customer and the market stand at the center of all our business and marketing initiatives. By combining internal Corbion data and secondary data, you help product managers anticipate the market and future developments, and you enable proactive, market-based decisions.

• Conduct market research and help to ensure that findings are understood and implemented to improve critical business decisions.
• Analyze data and translate them to relevant insights to support business decision-making processes for different purposes– For example;
  • to understand attractiveness for a new potential business area (could include due diligence of potential acquisitions)
  • Actively monitoring trends in existing active markets to be able to quickly respond to changes or new opportunities or to be used as input for new market positioning and messaging.
  • Monitoring activities of important customer and key accounts and identify changing needs and opportunities. 
  • Understanding main differentiators of main substitutes for LAS products.
  • Annually monitoring customer satisfaction & loyalty.
  • Analyze Voice of Customer data to be able to offer the best products & services.
  • Support innovation & ideation processes with relevant data.

• Collaborate with network of external partners to design & conduct market studies (primary & secondary).
• Reach out to internal stakeholders working within sales, business development and product management to combine their knowledge and find relevant opportunities.   
• Being part of the journey in bringing the data and insights competences and tool to the next level (together with existing digitalization and data-science  initiatives)

About You

• You hold a degree in Marketing or Business, combined with knowledge of the chemical industry, or the technical capability and willingness to acquire this knowledge..
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a relevant B2B insights role, preferably with exposure to the (bio-based) chemicals industry. 
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Independent thinker and self-starter.
• Hands-on and can-do mentality.
• High affinity with data and analytics.
• Open minded and curious to find new relevant information
• Creative in finding new tools & methods to be able to get the best results.
• Excellent organizational skills and the agility to manage multiple initiatives and changing priorities/needs.
• Ability to connect & interact with different disciplines
• Skilled in collecting and combining data from multiple sources, while weighing reliability and taking ownership of results
• Validated experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools Proficient in MS Office programs: PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Experience with CRM systems is advantageous

About Corbion 
 

What makes Corbion truly special is our talented global team of people, who are consciously dedicated to connecting the work we do together with the difference it makes in the lives of consumers, including our own friends and families. At Corbion, innovation is in our DNA; we explore, we discover, we create, and then we do it all over again, finding ever-better ways to help the world solve some of its most pressing challenges. When you come to Corbion, you will find that for us, sustainability is not simply a corporate program, it is at the very heart of our business, giving direction to our work, our investments and our creativity. We exist to preserve what matters.

As a company where day-to-day priorities and decisions are shaped by a shared purpose and vision, we enjoy a working environment energized by empowerment and opportunity. By joining Corbion, you can be part of :

• A culture open to great ideas wherever they come from, and where your work can make a real difference in the world
• An organization that values diversity of thought, background and experience
• A company ready to invest in you, helping you grow toward your personal ambitions
• A workplace that’s friendly and informal, while being focused and professional
• An international team small enough to stay agile, but large and talented enough to make an impact today, and for future generations

Our corporate values – Collaboration, Care, Courage and Commitment – define what it takes to overcome obstacles and create the sustainable breakthroughs the world sorely needs. As a member of the Corbion team, you’ll see these values put into action every day, and you’ll have the chance to make your own unique contribution to our collective achievements.

Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.