Market Intelligence Manager (m-f-d)

The Scope

The Mission

FSC works to take care of our forests and those who rely on them: by protecting plant and animal species, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, forest workers’ safety, and much more. We achieve this through FSC certification, ensuring forests around the world are responsibly managed. For more information on FSC, visit our website at www.fsc.org.

To effectively meet the challenge of protecting the world’s forests, we are committed to ensuring we have the world’s most skilled people working with us. This commitment extends to everyone that works in FSC around the world: from those that lead the design of policies and standards, to those that roll out those same policies and standards on the ground, and to those that provide us with backbone to do our work.

We are looking for an engaged Market Intelligence Manager who brings solid expertise and a passion for FSC’s mission, to work with us in a multinational environment.

Do you enjoy looking for patterns and meaning in data? Are you a structured, strategic and proactive individual with a passion for market intelligence who is ready to make an impact? If so, we invite you to join our dynamic team at FSC as a Market Intelligence Manager.

You will provide value added data analyses, aid market strategy building, and decision making, identify and translate market opportunities into actionable recommendations. You will improve market transformation efficiency and optimize market development and marketing activities.

Main Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead market intelligence globally from the business and market perspective to support decision making based on data driven insights across the organization.
• Continuous improvement and maintenance of global market intelligence (markets, regions, FSC offerings incl. certification and other forest solutions).
• Manage the market intelligence area by producing market intelligence materials (incl. reports, dashboards, etc.) based on internal/external data sources to use for market development, and by coordinating market intelligence work with cross-functional teams at FSC to provide meaningful insights/recommendations that contribute to the development and refinement of strategic plans.
• Create an FSC market performance report and forecasts of business growth, conduct global market survey based on the inputs from FSC’s key external stakeholders to support management and the regions to understand how FSC performs and derive strategic insights/action plans.
• Monitor trends and developments of key value chains and FSC’s performance against key metrics.
• Create and update comprehensive industry report, including market share, growth projections and trends, and market forces and analyze key countries’ market development status.
• Collect unfulfilled market data needs and collaborate with IT team to improve data collection.
• Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external key stakeholders to identify unmet market needs/emerging needs and market challenges.
• Any other task as assigned by formal supervisor and project work as assigned according to special organizational needs.

Your profile

• Education and Training:

• University degree or equivalent training or experience in a relevant field, for example, Business Administration, Business consulting, Economics, Forest Product, Math, Statistics.

• Working Experience, Style and Skills:

• At least 5 years of professional experience in market intelligence, analytics, statistics and/or reporting experience.
• Demonstrated strength in problem solving and capable of translating findings to conclusions/recommendations.
• Strong analytical skills including experience in data analysis for market intelligence.
• Strategic and structured way of working.
• Open-minded and communicative personality with a high degree of market orientation.
• Proven professional abilities in managing complex projects in a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience of predictive analytics is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of forest products’ markets.
• Collaborative working style and team building skills.

• Language & Communication Skills:

• Very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written).
• Spanish or French is a plus.

• Computer Skills – good skills in the use of/experience with:

• High level of competence with Microsoft Office suite (in particular, advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills).
• Tableau/Power BI
• Prior experience with R, Python, or other related programming languages is a plus.

Why us?

• Be part of a globally recognized organization at the forefront of sustainable forestry and contribute to the mission to help protect the world’s forests.
• Play an active role in the FSC global community of 400+ forest stewards who come together in-person at least once a year.
• Benefit from cross-cultural collaboration and networking opportunities by working in a dynamic, inclusive, and diverse international culture with over 60 nationalities represented under one roof.
• Benefit from work-life balance with our hybrid working structure.
• 30 vacation days yearly.
• Regional transportation ticket.
• Breakfast bars, coffee, tea, water.
• Take part in learning lunches.
• Celebrate together festivals from different cultures.

The Fine Print

Ready to make a difference? Join FSC and help shape a sustainable future. Don\’t delay – apply now!

• Location: Bonn, Germany.
• Working Hours: Full time – 40 hours per week.
• Duration of Employment: Temporary contract – 2 years (extension possible, subject to satisfactory performance).
• Starting Date: As soon as possible.

Please apply via our website by submitting your CV in English.
Please do not send any photos of yourself.

For FSC, inclusiveness and diversity are important values. As such, we welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and are entirely committed to consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age and disability.

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We are looking forward to your application!

About us

Welcome to FSC!

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a globally recognized non-profit organization at the forefront of promoting sustainable forestry. With over 150 million hectares of certified forests and a trusted reputation among NGOs, consumers, and businesses, FSC is leading the way in ensuring the long-term health and resilience of the world’s forests.