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Competitive Intelligence Manager

Marketing

Competitive Intelligence Manager

  • R10638
  • Remote, United States
  • G & A

Toast is a rapidly growing company that’s revolutionizing the way the food and beverage industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants and retailers streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our point of sale platform. Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. Join us as we empower the food and beverage industry to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.

About this roll* (responsibilities) 

The Toast Competitive Intelligence team delivers best-in-class market and competitive insights and analysis to position Toast as the leader in restaurant tech. We leverage these insights and analysis to inform overall company GTM strategy, sales enablement, and enable strategic decision making across Toast. We are responsible for understanding the restaurant technology market and competitive landscape and bringing to life the value, differentiation, and proof points of our offering. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that will offer substantial exposure to many different departments and the opportunity to drive long-term shareholder value at a hyper growth company.

In this role, you will become an expert on the restaurant technology competitive and market landscapes. You will be responsible for conducting quantitative and qualitative research and analysis that will inform both key strategic decision making as well as enable the sales team to be fluent in key competitive moves. The ideal candidate can thrive in becoming an expert in a rapidly changing environment and has experience uncovering and synthesizing competitive insights.

As Manager of Competitive Intelligence, you will:

  • Conduct research and analysis on our competitors’ products and strategy in order to influence strategic decisions across product, product marketing, sales, and more  
  • Develop a deep understanding of our competitors - tear down public statements and financials, do interviews, and get the on-the-ground truth
  • Leverage various data quantitative sources (Salesforce, Sigma, Snowflake, etc.) and be able to extract, transform, and build analyses and data visualizations to help answer critical questions and understand our competitive performance
  • Deliver the latest competitive developments, insights, and recommendations to the senior leadership team and other key stakeholders
  • Leverage competitive intelligence insights to build assets for sales reps (e.g., battlecards) and lead sales trainings
  • Leverage Market Insights and Win/Loss data to develop a holistic understanding of the competitive and market landscape
  • Work cross functionally with teams across Toast to socialize competitive intelligence through storytelling and collaborate with marketing, product, and insights teams across the organization (e.g., Investor Relations and Corporate Development) to build Toast’s collective knowledge

Do you have the right ingredients*? (requirements)

  • Experience in a diverse environment that can span product marketing, product management, strategy consulting, finance, or operational roles
  • Highly collaborative mindset; experience working cross-functionally and managing stakeholders to drive projects forward and deliver results
  • Ability to own and execute complex projects with limited oversight
  • Experience with quantitative and qualitative research and the ability to synthesize them together to inform strategic decision making
  • Strong writer, presenter, and verbal communicator; ability to build strong, compelling storylines and recommendations that are deeply evidenced in both quantitative and qualitative research to move leadership to action
  • Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to effectively manage multiple project timelines, internal partners, external partners, and deadlines
  • Highly analytical and comfortable (or will quickly learn to be) building reporting in analytics and data visualization tools; demonstrated ability to distill complex datasets in order to answer questions clearly
  • Intellectual curiosity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to explore, grow, and learn

Special sauce: (nice to have)

  • Competitive intelligence and/or market insights experience 
  • Familiarity with Crayon, Salesforce, Sigma, Hex, and SQL a plus
  • Experience working with stakeholders from Sales, Sales Enablement, Marketing, Product, R&D, Investor Relations, Senior Leadership, and everything in between
  • Interest and passion for restaurants, technology, and hospitality 
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • A self-starter who thrives when multitasking



*Bread puns encouraged but not required

Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

 

 

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.
Pay Range
$103,000—$165,000 USD

 

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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