Analyst, Innovation Strategy & Foresights

Job title: Analyst, Innovation Strategy & Foresights

As Analyst, Innovation Strategy & Foresights for the North America Zone, you will support the creation and ongoing maintenance of a unified zone innovation strategy by building the analyses, portfolio views, and monitoring tools that keep NA Innovation strategically focused and operationally on track. You will translate brand-agnostic consumer and market signals into clear strategic options, bringing forward recommendations that help define and advance the Zone’s innovation agenda.

Key Components of the Role

• Support shaping the NA Zone innovation strategy by helping identify where to play, supporting innovation sufficiency target tracking, and connecting analyses and recommendations to the overall KHC growth plan
• Translate brand-agnostic trend and foresight inputs into clear implications, opportunity areas, and “so what” summaries that can be applied across brands, categories, and channels.
• Directly lead and / or partner with BU cross-functional teams to bring ‘big bet’ innovation projects to life
• Build and maintain practical tools, templates, and reporting to operationalize innovation strategy and foresights ways of working (e.g., inputs-to-brief connections, learning plans, decision points, and pipeline snapshots)
• Create decision-ready materials (slides, pre-reads, and summary narratives) that synthesize inputs into clear options, trade-offs, and recommended paths forward
• Support portfolio views and roadmaps by organizing data, structuring comparisons, and helping teams see sequencing, dependencies, and key decisions
• Support non-adjacent category expansion exploration by helping structure hypotheses, learning agendas, and early concepting inputs so teams can pressure-test efficiently and stay decision-ready

Qualifications

• 2+ years of marketing or innovation experience

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure ambiguous questions into clear analyses and outputs; familiarity with IRI

• Experience synthesizing multiple inputs (consumer and market signals, business context, and cross-functional considerations) into clear implications and recommendations

• Comfort operating across multiple workstreams at once, maintaining strong attention to detail, timelines, and follow-through

• Contagious passion for consumer marketing, culture, innovation and trends

• Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz’ strategy and values.

• Location(s)

• Chicago/Aon Center

• Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.