General Mills - Business Analyst - Sales Solutions

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