Head, Market Intelligence & Insights

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Location: Head, Market Intelligence & Insights

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The Head, Market Intelligence & Insights is responsible for leading the Group's market intelligence function across the Cement and Foods businesses, providing fact-based, forward-looking market, customer, and competitive insights that support strategic planning, pricing decisions, and commercial execution.
• The incumbent will establish and maintain robust market intelligence frameworks, reporting systems, and analytical capabilities to enhance decision-making and business performance across the Group.
• The role drives the collection, analysis, and interpretation of market data to identify growth opportunities, competitive threats, and emerging trends, ensuring that business decisions are informed by reliable intelligence and actionable insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify emerging market opportunities, risks, and industry trends, and provide timely recommendations to executive management.
• Develop and maintain standardized market intelligence frameworks, dashboards, and reports to enable data-driven decision-making across the Group.
• Monitor market size, growth, market share, customer trends, and competitor activities across products, regions, and channels.
• Ensure the consistency, accuracy, and credibility of market data and insights across the Cement and Foods businesses.
• Provide actionable intelligence to support pricing, margin optimization, route-to-market effectiveness, and growth strategies.
• Lead the Group's Market Intelligence & Insights function across the Cement and Foods businesses, delivering fact-based market, customer, and competitive insights to support strategic and commercial decision-making.
• Build and lead a high-performing Market Intelligence team while promoting a culture of analytical rigor and insight-led decision-making.

Qualifications & Experience
Education:

• Master's degree (MBA, Economics, Strategy, Data Analytics, or related discipline) preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field.

Experience:

• Strong exposure to pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, and market analytics
• Experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Industrial, Commodities, or diversified conglomerate environments preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years in a leadership role.
• 12 - 15 years of experience in Market Intelligence, Strategy, Commercial Excellence, Business Analytics, Research, or related fields.