About this role
Line Manager: Strategic Insights Manager
Duty Post: Seoul, South Korea
Strategic Insights Specialist (Temporary)
The Strategic Insights Specialist is a core analytical role supporting commercial decision-making through rigorous data handling, structured analysis, and clear insight storytelling. For a 12-month period, you will work hands-on with commercial, market, and consumer data—tracking KPIs, analyzing trends, and supporting research initiatives to provide leadership with actionable insights on commercial performance, competitor activity, and consumer trends in the reduced-risk products category. This role is ideal for someone detail-oriented, curious, proactive, and ambitious to grow into a high-impact analytical partner.
This is a 12-month temporary position with the intention to convert a permanent role following a successful assessment period. The assessment will evaluate performance, alignment with team dynamics, and ability to meet business needs during key cycles such as the ASP and year-end closing season.
What You’ll Do
- Data Management & Preparation: Consolidate, clean, and structure data from multiple sources, ensuring accuracy and analytical readiness. Preprocess raw survey, consumer, and commercial data for downstream analysis.
- KPI Tracking & Analysis: Monitor commercial KPIs (sales, market share, pricing, promotions) across channels. Identify trends, gaps, and opportunities to support business decision-making.
- Market & Competitor Research: Track competitor products, pricing strategies, and promotional campaigns. Conduct desk research to provide context for commercial insights.
- Insight Generation, Reporting & Process Improvement: Interpret patterns in commercial and consumer data, translating them into actionable insights. Create concise reports and visualizations in English for leadership and cross-functional teams. Proactively improve reporting processes, analytical frameworks, and data workflows.
- Consumer Research Support: Assist in designing, implementing, and analyzing consumer research studies. Integrate consumer insights with commercial data to support actionable recommendations.
- Cross-Functional & Ad-Hoc Support: Manage various tasks and projects as they arise and upon manager’s request.
What We’re Looking For
- University degree in Psychology, Statistics, Data Analysis, or related fields.
- 3+ years of FMCG marketing or commercial analytics experience is advantageous.
- Strong analytical skills with data rigor: able to structure, clean, and interpret data to generate actionable insights
- Hands-on experience with data tools: proficient in Excel and familiar with Power BI or similar visualization tools; Python or other programming experience is a plus.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills: able to translate complex data into clear, persuasive insights and present findings to cross-functional teams.
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and results-driven, with a willingness to take ownership of projects and processes.
- Fluent in English and Korean.
Other facts
About JT International S.A.
We’re JTI, Japan Tobacco International and we believe in freedom. We think that the possibilities are limitless when you’re free to choose. In fact, we’ve spent over 20 years innovating, creating new and better products for our consumers to choose from. It’s how we’ve grown to be present in 130 countries.
But our business isn’t just business. Our business is our people. Their talent. Their potential. We believe when they’re free to be themselves, grow, travel and develop, amazing things can happen for our business.
That’s why our employees, from around the world, choose to be a part of JTI. 83% of employees feel happy working at JTI. And that's why we’ve been awarded Global Top Employer status, 10 years running.
So when you’re ready to choose a career you’ll love, in a company you’ll love, feel free to #JoinTheIdea.
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What you'll do
- The Strategic Insights Specialist will support commercial decision-making through data handling and analysis, providing actionable insights on commercial performance and consumer trends. Responsibilities include data management, KPI tracking, market research, and generating reports for leadership.
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