Senior Manager, Commercial Insights

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

As the Senior Manager of Commercial Insights, you will play a pivotal role in guiding Bacardi’s North America strategic decisions by delivering actionable insights through forward-looking analysis and evaluation of industry trends. This position is ideal for a forward-thinking, data-driven leader committed to transforming how Bacardi anticipates, interprets, and responds to market and consumer dynamics.

ABOUT YOU

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in market intelligence, commercial insights, or strategic roles. They should be highly adept at analyzing and transforming large, complex data sets into actionable insights. Strong influencing, collaboration, and leadership skills are essential, with the ability to partner effectively across all levels, both internally and externally. The candidate must also demonstrate agility and a results-driven mindset to consistently drive business value. You will be based in Miami, Florida.

WITH OUR CONSUMER AT THE HEART, YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE TO:

• Drive strategic analysis of category, brand, and competitive performance across channels, identifying growth opportunities, market risks, and white-space potential.

• Provide actionable insights on distribution, velocity, and assortment to guide Sales and Marketing, and distributor partners on execution priorities for sustainable growth.

• Translate complex data into executive-ready narratives that connect consumer trends, market dynamics, and performance outcomes.

• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and Insights teams to inform brand plans, innovation priorities, and go-to-market strategies using robust insights.

• Lead competitive intelligence for the spirits category, tracking key competitors, emerging brands, and supplier strategies through syndicated and custom data sources.

• Contribute to Joint Business Planning (JBP) process with distributor, ensuring collaborative alignment across commercial plans and priorities.

• Take the lead on ad-hoc projects, managing execution and delivering actionable outcomes.

• Own the development and maintenance of standard dashboards, scorecards, and recurring business reviews to enhance organizational understanding of market trends and performance.

• Collaborate effectively with Commercial Planning, Insights, CP&A, Commercial Finance, and Technology teams to advance the analytics and insights agenda.

• Act as a trusted thought leader on spirits insights, educating stakeholders on category dynamics, data interpretation, and implications for commercial decision-making.

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Data Science, Marketing, or related field

• 7+ years of experience in market intelligence, business analytics or consumer insights, ideally within CPG or Beverage/Alcohol

• Proven expertise with syndicated data (NIQ, IWSR, IRI, NABCA, NUMERATOR), and competitive intelligence

• Proven expertise in Depletions data (VIP, SIPSOURCE, ANAPLAN), and distribution metrics

• High comfort modelling and understanding large and complex data sets

• Ability to understand and influence decision making, especially commercial decisions

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills; able to translate complex data into actionable insights for senior stakeholders

• Ability to balance urgency with analytical rigor, ensuring decisions are made efficiently and grounded in data.

• Strong Communication Skills - written, verbal, presentation

• Ability to work effectively across functions and organizational levels to achieve desired goals

leadership agility

At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become
• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others
• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance
• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with
• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience

Disclaimer: Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person's identity.