Strategic Foresight Manager

Job Description

Job AdvertAre you curious about how the future will unfold Do you find new and interesting ways to solve problems Do you thrive working with the abstract and uncertain Do you want to be part of setting the future direction for Asda based on insightsand foresightsThe Customer Experience & Insights team provides business critical insights using qualitative and quantitative research and analytics, sets customer direction for the business and support teams to execute strategic initiatives, customer propositions andinnovation. Your role will be to lead foresights as part of a high performing Customer Experience & Insight team, reporting into a Senior Insights Manager.In a fast-changing and unpredictable world, you will help the business to understand future scenarios and shape responses to change and navigate uncertainty with confidence.You will take a broad view and bring together societal, political, economic, industry and sector insights and trends to identify developments and drivers of change that have the potential to impact Asdas future.You will use a range of research and structured thinking methodologies to identify, analyse and communicate insights about the future. You will identify drivers of change, monitor them systematically and imagine multiple scenarios and plausible futures toanticipate and better prepare for change, stress test existing strategies and identify opportunity spaces for innovation, value generation and growth.You will support and facilitate the business to explore future scenarios, align on a vision for the future, understand what this could mean for consumers and agree actions to prepare for multiple ways the future could play out.Key Responsibilities

• Constantly horizon scan to seek out developments and trends using a broad spectrum of insight sources
• Shape possible future scenarios and potential implications and considerations for Asda and Asda customers
• Support the facilitation of discussions with Senior stakeholders across the business on future scenarios, prioritisation, vision setting and action planning
• Work in close collaboration with the strategy and transformation team on potential strategic implications
• Keep the team and key stakeholders aware of key developments
• Engage the business on future scenarios to support the building of a future-mindset culture
• Actively build working relationships around the business with key stakeholders across functions and externalagency partners
• Take on at least 1 extracurricular responsibility for the Asda Customer Experience & Insights Team to support the overall happiness, fulfilment, and development of the team

About YouCurious, analytical, creative thinker. Excellent and rigorous logic, good instincts, and a can-do attitude are more important than any formal qualifications. Youll be best suited to this role if you:

• Have experience in horizon scanning, trend research, and scenario planning
• Have experience in customer and market quantitative and qualitative research and analysis
• Take a long-term view, looking forwards, rather than only backwards
• Obsess about consumer wants, needs and barriers
• Have strong analytical skills and can competently analyse data, draw out key findings and distil the most important points
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills (particularly powerpoint and word), able to distil the so what and make the complex and ambiguous clear and simple to understand
• Manage your own and others workload in a structured and efficient way
• Work effectively and harmoniously with people from other teams and other functions

Working LocationThis is a hybrid role and Asdas policy is Work where it works. This enables you to choose where you will be the most effective on any given day and for any given activity, providing the mix of working from home and in an office environment that worksbest for you and your team.In return you will receive an exceptional benefits package including:

£5,700 car allowance

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

10% colleague discount with extra discount days run throughout the year

Free city centre parking<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541:1,335559684:-2,335559685:720,335559991:360,469769226:Symbol,469769242:[822