Head of Marketing Insights

Ingredion Incorporated • Westchester, IL

8d • $181,400 - $241,867 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Head of Global Insights & Intelligence leads Ingredion's global Insights Center of Excellence, transforming customer, consumer, market, competitive, and business intelligence into actionable growth opportunities. The role is responsible for identifying emerging trends, unmet needs, sources of competitive advantage, and new opportunities for growth, translating insights into strategic recommendations that shape business strategy, innovation priorities, portfolio decisions, commercial opportunities, and go-to-market execution. Working closely with the wider Global and Regional Marketing teams, Segment and Product teams, R&D, Commercial Excellence, and business leadership, this leader ensures innovation pipelines are grounded in validated customer and consumer needs, supports critical commercialization decisions throughout the stage-gate process, and leverages AI-enabled insights capabilities to deliver differentiated intelligence at scale. The role champions a culture of evidence-based decision making, builds world-class insights capabilities, and ensures insights translate into measurable business impact, profitable growth, and competitive advantage.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Marketing, Business Administration (MBA), Data Analytics, Economics, Market Research, or a related commercial discipline preferred.
• 12-15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Insights, Strategic Marketing, Market Intelligence, Commercial Excellence, Business Strategy, or related functions within global B2B ingredient, food, beverage, specialty chemical, life sciences, or sophisticated CPG organizations.
• Demonstrated track record of translating insights into business outcomes, including shaping growth strategies, influencing investment decisions, supporting innovation commercialization, and driving profitable revenue growth.
• Deep expertise in customer, consumer, market, competitive, and business intelligence, with the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations for executive and commercial audiences.
• Experience leading global teams and influencing across complex, matrixed organizations, with a strong understanding of regional market dynamics across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled insights capabilities, advanced analytics, data platforms, automation, and emerging technologies, with experience embedding digital and AI solutions into business decision-making processes.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, storytelling, and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence senior executives, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders through compelling, evidence-based narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
• Strong people leadership capabilities with experience building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams and fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Highly collaborative and influential leader with the ability to build trusted partnerships across Marketing, R&D, Commercial, Strategy, Digital, and regional organizations.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are advantageous.
• Connects customer, consumer, market, competitive, regulatory, technology, and business signals to uncover insights, identify growth opportunities, and guide business decisions.
• Compelling storyteller and influencer: Translates complex information into clear, persuasive narratives that influence executive decisions, strengthen customer engagement, and accelerate commercial action.
• Collaborator: Builds alignment across Marketing, R&D, Commercial, Strategy, and regional teams, bringing diverse perspectives together to drive growth.
• Growth & innovation catalyst: Identifies unmet needs, emerging trends, and whitespace opportunities, translating them into growth platforms, innovation priorities, and commercial opportunities.
• AI-enabled leader: Harnesses AI, analytics, and automation to scale insights, accelerate decision making, and increase organizational effectiveness.
• Thrives in ambiguity, applying curiosity, critical thinking, and commercial judgment to bring clarity and direction to complex business challenges.
• High performance leader: Sets ambitious standards, delivers results through others, and builds high-performing teams and capabilities.
• Maintains focus, sound judgment, and effective decision making in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Talent & Capability Builder: Actively shares knowledge, best practices, and expertise to strengthen organizational capability and advance both regional and enterprise goals.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Marketing, Business Administration (MBA), Data Analytics, Economics, Market Research, or a related commercial discipline preferred.
• Additional languages are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead global market intelligence and trend forecasting capabilities.
• Shape enterprise strategy and growth priorities through customer, consumer, market, competitive, and business insights.
• Synthesize multiple sources of intelligence (market, customer, consumer, competitive, regulatory, technology and business) into actionable insights and persuasive, audience-specific stories that inform executive decision making, shape growth strategy, guide innovation investment, enable go-to-market execution, and strengthen customer engagement
• Partner with Global Category Marketing to quantify market opportunities and commercialization potential for innovation and growth initiatives.
• Identify and prioritize near-term growth opportunities that unlock profitable growth, partnering with Regional Marketing to drive go-to-market activation and commercial execution.
• Anticipate future market shifts to uncover whitespace opportunities, develop strategic growth hypotheses, and guide investment, innovation, and commercialization decisions.
• Guide strategic planning, portfolio decisions, and investment priorities using data-driven intelligence.
• Ensure innovation pipelines are grounded in validated customer and consumer needs and supported through the stage-gate process.
• Works with the Brand and Marcoms COE to translate insights into thought leadership and with Regional Marketing to shape customer engagement strategies and go-to-market execution.
• Build and scale AI-enabled insights capabilities that accelerate decision making and competitive advantage.
• Define and lead a world-class Global Insights Center of Excellence, including talent, methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Champion a culture of insight-led decision making and demonstrate measurable business impact.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based pay
• Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Learning, training, and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement
• Employee Recognition Program
• Relocation Available
• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with an competitive company match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager