Shopper Insights Manager

Also called: Shopper Marketing Analyst

Studies how people behave inside stores and online shops to decide product placement and packaging.

A day in the life

You analyze store sales data and watch shoppers through eye-tracking glasses to figure out why your brand's juice gets passed over on the shelf.

Pay over a career

Starting
$60k
Typical
$98k
High
$145k

Estimate.

Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.

Training

Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's in marketing or business analytics.

Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.

Majors to look at: Marketing, Business Analytics, Psychology.

Outlook

Growing about average. Steady.

Will it last? Our AI estimate

Medium risk for 10 years. AI analyzes loyalty-card and online shopping data; watching shoppers in stores and turning that into shelf decisions stays human.

Start now, in high school

Classes: AP Statistics, AP Psychology, Marketing CTE class.

Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1161.

More Market Research & Consumer Insights careers

Career Universe is an early version. Pay, training and AI-risk figures are estimates to start your own research, not verified facts. The research was written with AI research assistants, checked by validation scripts and spot-checked by hand. Check anything important with schools, employers and official sources. How the numbers work.