Senior Analyst - Food & Drink, China (Advisory)

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Shanghai Until 8/23/2026 First posted November 3, 2025 Last posted November 3, 2025
Job description

Senior Analyst - Advisory, China

  1. Advisory & Client Engagement
    • Deliver insight-sharing sessions and advisory discussions based on research findings and written reports, clearly explaining complex analyses and implications.
    • Respond to client briefs by shaping research frameworks, analysis structures and report narratives, rather than purely extracting data.
    • Use pre-published Mintel Reports and research outputs to support client discussions, tailoring angles and focus to specific business questions.
    • Present research-led insights to clients in a clear, structured and confident manner, ensuring findings are well understood and actionable.
    • Work closely with Client Success and Commercial teams to support content-led advisory engagements, ensuring research outputs are aligned with client needs.
    • Proactively communicate with clients on the most relevant research findings, market insights and report outputs for their business priorities.
  2. Content & Insights Delivery
    • Publish in-depth research reports combining market research and consumer insights, demonstrating Mintel’s expertise across consumer markets
    • Deliver Mintel Reports on time and to a consistently high quality standard, covering a range of categories and subject areas.
    • Independently lead the end-to-end report workflow, including: 
      • research design and scoping
      • questionnaire design and research framework development
      • primary and secondary data collection
      • data analysis, validation, and interpretation
      • insight synthesis, storyline development, and report writing
    • Gather and assess relevant primary and secondary data for each market, working closely with Research Directors to develop accurate market, company and segmentation insights.
    • Translate complex data and research findings into clear, structured and insight-led written content, aligned with Mintel’s reporting standards.
  3. Industry Engagement
    • Monitor consumer, market and innovation trends, identifying the most relevant issues to explore through consumer research.
    • Build and maintain relationships with industry contacts and experts to deepen understanding of factors influencing consumer behavior, innovation and company strategy.
    • Integrate market knowledge, research findings and external inputs into coherent insight narratives that strengthen report quality and relevance.
About this role

Summary

Conduct market research, analyze data, write reports, and engage with clients in food and drink industry in China.

Job title

Senior Analyst - Food & Drink, China (Advisory)

Experience level

not specified

Industry

none specified

Location requirements

Shanghai, no remote work allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

research designdata analysisreport writingprimary data collectionsecondary data

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

market researchconsumer insightsfood and beveragereport writing
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Shanghai, China

On-site City