Manager, Data, Insights & Analytics, Nigeria

Manager, Data Insights & Analytics - NEF 

Reports to: Senior Director II, Franchise Operations Lead, Nigeria 
Location: Nigeria 

Role Overview 

The Africa Operating Unit (AOU) is accelerating its data and insights capability to deliver stronger business performance, sharper decision-making, and more predictive analytics across categories, channels, and markets.  

The Manager, Data Insights & Analytics plays a critical role in elevating performance reporting, enriching market intelligence, strengthening predictive insights, and enhancing the organization’s ability to make fast, informed, and confident business decisions. This role will support in orchestrating insight driven reporting ecosystem that fuels business growth across the NEF Franchise. 

The role requires a strong Subject Matter Expert (SME) with deep expertise in business performance metrics, sales analysis, and market insights, consumer understanding as well as the ability to translate complex datasets into compelling, actionable and integrated insights. 

Key Purpose of the Role 

To lead the Franchise’s data reporting, market facing analytics, and overall insight generation agenda —delivering accurate, timely, and strategic data intelligence that informs decisions, unlock growth opportunities, and drives business excellence across markets and functions. 

What You’ll Do for Us 

Business Insight Reporting: 

• Oversee delivery of critical reports that inform business decisions, marketing strategy, and commercial execution (retail, shopper, consumer, commercial, macros, competition) working with service providers, KO SMEs and bottling partners to ensure quality, usability and contextual relevance of these insights to system operations. 

• Own and act as custodian of key business data that feeds into the business routines, performance reviews and forms the basis for operational and strategic decision making. 

• Produce periodic insights reports (Annual, monthly, quarterly), identifying trends, risks, and opportunities that would guide leadership decisions. 

Carry out day-to-day analytics work to support the markets in the Franchise. 

Support the markets in business planning by providing robust datasets, scorecards, and analytical insight across channels, categories. 

Identify and recommend enhancements to systems, data workflows, platforms, and reporting tools to improve speed, accuracy, and user experience. 

Support cross functional special projects requiring deep analytics or insight generation. 

Qualifications and Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field (relevant work experience may substitute for formal education). 

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in data analytics, business performance reporting, or insights roles — including 2+ years of direct experience with Nielsen data. 

• Experience in the beverage or FMCG industry is a strong advantage. 

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex datasets and translate insights into compelling storytelling that influences leadership decisions. 

• Strong command of analytical tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or other visualization and data platforms. 

• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. 

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams and influence without authority. 

• Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail. 

• Ability to thrive in dynamic, fast paced environments while delivering high-quality outputs.