Dieter Deceuninck

Europe Head - Strategic Insights & Analytics

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

Passionate & visionary insights entrepreneur with broad international experience (Global, Europe, Asia) across multiple FMCG industries: cosmetics/ personal care, foods, beverages and alcoholic beverages - across client and agency/ consultancy side. Catalyst for transforming businesses/ industries - aiming for sustainable value creation, quadruple win (consumer, retailer, manufacturer & planet) and for bringing out the best in my teams. I’m known for my entrepreneurial side, my creativity, my fresh strategic perspective on challenges & opportunities, my ability to bring the outside in, my passion for behaviour change, my drive to be context relevant, my bias for action, my resilience to deliver results, my authenticity, my pragmatism and my ability to drive decisions. Specialties: brand and portfolio strategy, category growth strategy, insight-driven innovation, re-energizing commoditized categories, non-innovation led growth through behavior change, brand launch/ relaunch, content/ context marketing, ethnic marketing, communication development, needs segmentation, consultancy, thought leadership & entrepreneurial leadership. For more details, do not hesitate to contact me: [email protected]

Experience

  • Danone (9 yrs 1 mo)
    • Europe Head – Strategic Insights & Analytics
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Global Director Strategy & Insights- Strategic Growth, Human& Cultural Foresight and Market Insights
      Feb 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Global Director Strategy & Insights - Waters & Aquadrinks
      Jun 2017 - Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Unilever (8 yrs 6 mos)
    • Director Global Consumer Market Insight Hair - House of Salon (Sunsilk, TRESemme, V05, Toni&Guy)
      May 2014 - May 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Senior Manager Consumer Market Insight Deodorants (Rexona, Axe) - Asia Australia
      Oct 2011 - Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Manager Consumer Market Insight Savoury (Knorr) - Europe
      Dec 2008 - Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Synovate (6 yrs)
    • Director Censydiam France
      Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 · 2 yrs

    • Researcher
      2003 - 2007 · 4 yrs