Manager, Commercial Excellence Analytics

Suntory Global Spirits•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day. This role is within Commercial Excellence Operations and will translate marketplace performance into clear actions that accelerate growth and deliver execution-focused recommendations that help the US organization improve performance-to-plan. The role involves embedding with US brand and commercial stakeholders, serving as a trusted analytics partner, helping convert insights into actions, and mastering the US performance landscape across regions, channels and brands. The Manager will analyze data to identify the drivers of business growth and lead high-impact analytics that connect business performance, consumer and shopper behavior, route-to-market execution, and investment choices into clear recommendations aligned with US growth priorities. This role will act as a thought leader for US Performance Management analytics, shaping and owning data structure and visualization, capture and data analysis and recommendations to enable faster, insight-driven decisions and linking data to action. The Manager will support diagnostic workshops, lead analytics for all PDCA workstreams, and assist with the development of PDCA storytelling. Additionally, the role will support the deployment, ongoing adoption and enhancements of AI Tools that directly support Performance Management. The Manager will champion data storytelling, translate complex data into concise, business-ready narratives, and build strong relationships with US Sales, Brand and S&OP to ensure the organization has the right insights and performance visibility. Partnering closely with the US Insights and analytics organization is also a key aspect of this role.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in commercial analytics, sales analytics, business intelligence, category insights, revenue growth management, or marketplace performance analytics, ideally in a US CPG or beverage alcohol environment.
Bachelor’s degree required.
Proven ability to synthesize and drive business impact using multiple US data sources, including NIQ, Circana, NABCA, CGA, distributor depletion data, shipment data, retailer/scan data, account-level execution data, financial data, and internal planning tools.
Strong understanding of US commercial drivers, including distribution, velocity, share, price/mix, promotional effectiveness, assortment, channel dynamics, retail execution, and category trends.
Commercially curious and analytically rigorous, with the ability to connect data, field realities, customer needs, and brand priorities into practical decisions and measurable business outcomes.
Advanced proficiency in Excel and Power BI required.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence senior leaders, sales teams, distributor partners, and cross-functional stakeholders through concise, insight-led storytelling.
Able to work independently with a strong sense of ownership, prioritize across multiple business needs, manage ambiguity, and escalate issues appropriately while maintaining momentum.
High degree of numeracy, business acumen, and attention to detail, with the ability to validate data, identify inconsistencies, and ensure confidence in decision-making outputs.
Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously, including recurring performance reporting, ad-hoc business questions and executive updates.
Broader CPG experience with syndicated data, retail execution, distributor management, or national account analytics is required.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred in Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Business, Marketing, or a related field.
Experience building dashboards, scorecards, executive-ready performance views, and commercial analytics tools strongly preferred.
Working knowledge of data manipulation and automation tools such as SQL, Power Query, Python, R, or similar platforms is preferred.
US beverage alcohol experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Become a commercial growth partner for the US business.
Translate marketplace performance into clear actions that accelerate growth and deliver execution-focused recommendations.
Embed with US brand and commercial stakeholders, serving as a trusted analytics partner.
Master the US performance landscape across regions, channels and brands.
Analyze data to identify the drivers of business growth.
Lead high-impact analytics that connect business performance, consumer and shopper behavior, route-to-market execution, and investment choices into clear recommendations aligned with US growth priorities.
Act as a thought leader for the US Performance Management analytics in both the PDR and BSMART forums, shaping and owning data structure and visualization, capture and data analysis and recommendations to enable faster, insight-driven decisions and linking data to action, all in service of delivering annual plan targets.
Support diagnostic workshops by enabling cross-functional teams to visually identify and prioritize drivers and barriers, then convert them into main discussion topics and actionable recommendations.
Lead analytics for all PDCA workstreams which includes data structure and capture, data visualization for analysis, hypothesis / A-B Testing, and measuring and analyzing in-market test results to convert learnings into actionable results.
Assist with the development of PDCA storytelling, using data and to share learnings across the enterprise.
Support the deployment, ongoing adoption and enhancements of AI Tools that directly support Performance Management.
Translate complex data into concise, business-ready narratives for PDCA, and performance management forums.
Become a key commercial influencer by building strong relationships with US Sales, Brand and S&OP, to ensure the organization has the right insights and performance visibility.
Partner closely with the US Insights and analytics organization to ensure best practice adherence, consumer and shopper understanding to contextualize the data and ensure no “repeat work” in terms of analysis and reviews.