Position Title: Business Analyst
Function/Group: Sales Solutions
Country: India
Location: Mumbai
Recommended Level: 12 Job Type: Full time
Role Reports to: Assistant Manager/Manager
Geographical Scope of the Role - Location: US/UK/Other International
% of travel required: None
Job Overview
- The role will be responsible to partner with the Sales / Trade Marketing Teams in US / International markets and Trade Finance groups.
- The team member will independently build a seamless rapport with the point of contact overseas, address and initiate business requests, establish solutions through sophisticated reporting/tool building and superior presentations/visuals. The work will be sent with actionable analysis that showcases depth & breadth of business acumen.
- The role includes trade fulfillment, enabling trade optimization strategies, competitive intelligence, recommending merchandising & pricing scenarios via various data modelling & analytical techniques either independently or through collaboration of cross-team peers.
- Role would require a good understanding of syndicated data like Nielsen, IRI & SPINS which would be required to provide solutions to stakeholders on aspects of price & trade promotions.
Job Responsibilities
70% of Time Business Analysis & Analytics
- Provide actionable insights & recommendations to stakeholders on the performance of trade promotion activities conducted at various retailers
- Provide prescriptive analytical solutions on ways the teams can optimizing the trade spend for maximum ROI across retailers
- Leverage various promotional & pricing metrices from Syndicated databases like Nielsen & IRI to conduct descriptive analysis on business questions
- Master and own the deliverables in the form of excel reports, tableau dashboards & PowerPoint presentations and send quality output in a timely manner
- Work alongside of peers and inculcate best practices and elevate the team's ability to tackle business questions with value adds
- Demonstrate an analytical bend of mind in all tasks/projects/collaborations
- Actively builds & proliferates trade management knowledge & principles
- Showcase thought leadership; look for ways to integrate better business solutions
- Anticipate customer needs based on business trends and previous projects
20% of Time Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Executional Excellence, and Project Management
- Ensure TAT is upheld via awareness on process requirements, meeting benchmark time estimates and through articulate expectation settings with the stakeholder
- Guarantee data quality and accuracy through thorough comprehension of request, accurate application of tools/platforms with an eye for detail and a robust data & logic check
- Eliminate Waste, Contribute to the Functional Productivity Goals
- CI Mindset: develop and drive a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team
- Project Management: Juggle multiple projects incld. long range projects and own project scoping, to trouble shooting, collaborating, to timely communication/iterations with peers and stakeholders to high impact completion and presentation
- Mentoring & Training new hires and Sr. Executives to excel in their roles and outperform expectations
10% of Time Building Stakeholder Relationships
- Brand themselves as a SME on multiple fronts
- Understand client needs/ customer request and see the larger picture to enable holistic solutions
- Ability to recommend and influence changes to process/procedures
- Explore business development opportunities and transform into tangible results
- Ability to communicate challenges in an assertive manner
- Work through people and processes to accomplish superlative results
- Articulate and comprehensive presentations to the audience
Education & Experience
Education
- Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
- Preferred Degree Requirements: Bachelors/Masters
- Preferred Major Area of Study: Business Management, Statistics, Marketing, Retail, Economics
Experience
- Minimum years of related experience required: 3-4 years of relevant Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience in CPG (or related) industry, Data Modelling preferred
- Preferred years of related experience: 5-6 years of Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience, Data Modelling preferred
Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed
- Experience with syndicated data is required (experience working with ACNielsen and IRI data preferred.)
- Experience in descriptive & topical business analysis by applying analytical techniques (preferred)
- MS Excel & Tableau proficiency - preparing dynamic dashboards and working through large volumes of data effectively
- Agility to learn new databases, tools, platforms on the fly and implement in real time
- Exceed internal and external customer timelines and expectations
- Strong command over oral and written English
- Continuous Improvement mindset
- Multitasking ability - work on a host of tools/databases and softwares/platforms effectively to manifest superior results
- Organization and Prioritization - in line with the team's goals
- Collaborate with peers to align with the team's vision
Competencies/Behaviors required for job
- Company Values - Do the right thing all the time; Play to win; Grow and Inspire; Win as a team; Act boldly move quickly
- Process Transformation
- Problem Solving & Analytical
- Leads Innovation: Tech & Data Savvy
- Selling & Influential Communication
- Proactive and the ability to handle ambiguous situations in a calm, composed manner
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