Manager - Spend Management & Analytics - FMCG

Manager - Spend Management & Analytics- FMCG

Job Responsibilities:

Commercial Spends Management:

- Preparation of framework & annual plan for commercial spends deployment for the GT channel with details around product granularity, time frame, sub-channel/geo and cost heads.

- Contribute to & understand Pre & Post event analytics of spends to increase efficiency and effectiveness of deployment lines. Usage & enhancement of tools like TRoICa towards the same.

- Effective deployment, tracking and right-sizing of spends budget across month & quarter plans to maintain YTD & YTG compliance towards framework and objectives.

- MIS/Dashboarding of all spends related information for channels/sub-channels for consumption of & decision making by CPD leadership.

- Process custodian of creation & management of all POs/DEDs for deployment of all commercial business spends & activity closures for the business period.

Business Transformation (leveraging Analytics as a core competence):

- The Candidate will be a core member of the Business Strategy and Transformation team. Immediate engagements will include the Modern Trade and Cand & Carry transformation projects, spanning: Opportunity assessment (diagnosis) as well as Solution design and Pilot rollout.

Key Competencies:

- A planning mind-set to understand and implement the science and art of sales planning

- Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to work in a cross-functional environment

- Hands on experience on Data modelling as well as modelling languages like R / Python

- Strong analytical skills to interpret data and derive insights

- Good communication and presentation skills

- A future-ready mind-set to seek out & benchmark the best practices & processes from across industries & technologies of the future.

Physical Demands (e.g. % travel):

- Travel will be need based

Education: Graduate/PG