Strategic Insights Associate (Temporary)

Line Manager: Strategic Insights Manager
Duty Post: Seoul, South Korea

Strategic Insights Associate (Temporary)

The Strategic Insights Associate 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. 

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.
• Minimum 1-2 years of strategic insights/data analytics experience is required, experience in FMCG marketing or commercial analytics experience is advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to structure, clean, and interpret data to generate actionable insights.
• 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, ability 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.