Albemarle

Albemarle

Director, Commercial Analytics & Strategic Insights

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
StatisticsForecastingResearchLeadershipCommunicationDemand Planning

About the role

  • Be an essential element to a brighter future.
  • We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health.
  • Job Description Albemarle is hiring for a Director, Commercial Analytics & Strategic Insights.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Market-Back Growth Intelligence: Lead the shift from reporting and data outputs to decision-ready insight products that define market sizes, uncover customer-centric growth priorities, and identify Albemarle's share of wallet.
  • Clarify Market Sizing & Opportunity Identification: Maintain a robust framework for clarifying Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) across current and adjacent specialty chemical segments.
  • Partner closely with Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Product Management, among others to frame critical business questions and prioritize insight and data transformation initiatives.
  • Operationalize Proprietary Market Intelligence: Develop Albemarle's proprietary market perspective, combining internal commercial expertise with external data, market signals and demand-elasticity indicators.
  • Scale Foresight via Advanced Analytics and AI: Build predictive scenario planning, demand forecasting, and decision-support capabilities, leveraging AI and intelligent automation to identify market inflection points before they happen.
  • Lead and Inspire High-Impact Team: Develop a high-performing analytics team focused on commercial relevance, insights storytelling, continuous improvement and driving measurable enterprise growth.
  • Lead transformation initiatives that simplify processes, improve speed to insight, and embed analytics, AI, and automation into day-to-day business operations.
  • Drive adoption of insights, tools, and new ways of working: through compelling narratives, visualizations, executive-ready communication, and change leadership.
  • Strategic Capability: Proven ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable insights that shape decisions and drive business outcomes.
  • Proven ability to build market sizing models (TAM/SAM/SOM) and execute market share analysis that successfully shape commercial growth strategies.

Requirements

  • Fuse primary and secondary research, including Voice of Customer (VOC) data with macroeconomic indicators to build a 360-degree view of market and customer needs and shifting value chains.
  • Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Economics, Business, Statistics, Market Research, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in commercial strategy, market intelligence, business insights, or analytics transformation roles.
  • 5+ years of experience leading and developing analytics, insights, decision-support, or analytics transformation-focused teams
  • Advanced degree (MBA, Master's, or PhD) in Analytics, Economics, Business or Market Research.
  • Deep experience in B2B specialty chemicals, advanced materials, or highly technical industrial value chains.
  • Exceptional executive communication and insight storytelling skills - the ability to turn complex market data into a clear, compelling commercial narrative.
  • Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders to shift from internal product-centric planning to market-back strategy setting and execution key business priorities and transformation opportunities.

Skills

  • through compelling narratives, visualizations, executive-ready communication, and change leadership.
  • What you will bring

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Economics, Business, Statistics, Market Research, or a related field.

Company info

  • Track and Analyze Market Share: Build continuous tracking mechanisms to evaluate Albemarle's market share performance, identifying where we are winning, where whitespace exists and where competitive displacement risks lie.
  • At Albemarle, we embrace the diversity of experience, talent, and thought.
  • Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet.
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