Director, Global Industry & Performance Insights

Hasbro•Boston, MA

23d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Global Industry & Performance Insights is the core analyst and a leader responsible for integrating global industry, category, commercial, and market data to deliver clear, executive-level narratives of business performance. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Consumer Insights, this role serves as the primary interpreter of “what” is happening in the industry and our business and the “so what” to enable confident, data-informed decision-making. This role partners with leaders from Commercial, Global Brand, Marketing, and Supply Chain Analytics to synthesize industry and business performance data with consumer understanding into actionable strategic recommendations and diagnostic guidance for the business. The outputs of this role directly inform corporate and business unit long-range plans, monthly business reviews, earnings calls, Board meetings, and real-time understanding of risks and opportunities for our brands and businesses.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in CPG analytics, insights, or strategy, including conducting diagnostic, exploratory, and relational analytics.
Exceptional quantitative analysis skills, ideally through deep experience with syndicated data, retail POS analytics, or financial data.
Proven ability to synthesize across analytics and consumer insights.
Exemplary executive communication and storytelling skills, including translating quantitative measurement into actionable findings for non-technical audiences.
Strong understanding of CPG commercial levers and portfolio management.
Expertise in PowerBI or other BI visualization tools, both manipulating and building, or at minimum briefing.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the Toys & Games industry ideal but not required.

Responsibilities

Deliver the executive-level performance narrative across the industry, Hasbro’s portfolio, brands, and regions for the milestones above.
Inform strategic planning with integrated, fact-based perspectives on industry and business outlook, including macroeconomic, consumer, and market signals.
Translate data and insights into clear implications and recommendations for the Toys & Games leadership team.
Partner with analysts across Commercial teams to synthesize syndicated data (Circana/IRI, Nielsen, SPINS) with internal POS, shipment, and financial data into leadership-facing narratives.
Partner with leaders across the Toy & Game Consumer Insights team to incorporate consumer and shopper insights that explain the why behind observed performance trends, delivering clarity on what Hasbro should do next.
Collaborate with supply chain analytics to generate Toy & Game industry and category-level outlooks to inform Hasbro’s topline and share growth projections.
Develop and champion shared metrics, definitions, and executive storytelling standards across Hasbro’s analyst base.
Serve as a core partner to the Technology team, developing a prioritization process for solutions requests from Global Brand, Commercial, and Creative & Product Dev orgs, finding efficiencies and opportunities to coach the business on available tools/dashboards, standardized metrics, and best practices.
Lead team of analysts who embed with Commercial teams, focused on regional industry and performance data analysis and insights.