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Reporting to the Commercial Business Manager, the successful candidate would help analyse and co-ordinate order book, financial, margin, price and customer data. This is a supporting role to help determine policy or tactical changes that improve the business' functions, actions and profitability.
This role directly supports the Sales & Marketing team and acts as a facilitator between the commercial organisation and the financial and operational functions. This is a proactive and responsive function that will support the senior sales and executive teams through-out the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Utilise and develop financial information systems and process controls to support the business’ objectives.
- Prepare and produce dashboards to support calculation and reporting of MS KPIs.
- Provide ‘order book’ analysis to plan and forecasts.
- Provide input to the ‘demand planning’ process.
- Ensure timely, accurate reporting of sales performance, price, and margin gaps for MS Senior Management weekly, monthly & quarterly.
- Provide forecasts and outlooks as appropriate.
- Offer assistance on management of rebates and promotional plans.
- Prepare market insights bases on robust research sources.
- Support targeting and measurement of sales team bonus schedules.
- Support R&D, product mgt and plant finance on pricing and margin analysis.
- Update business reporting modules such as BI.
- Update and provide the business with sales pricing and volumes by product class & customer for financial outlooks, forecasts.
- Assist in the delivery of commercial inputs into Budget, and strategic / 5-year plans.
- Support data manipulation and interpretation from CRM systems.
- Support analysis for UK, EU & Ireland sales managers.
- Assist in supporting the business on specific project initiatives from time to time.
Typical Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
- Higher education in STEM subjects or equivalent
- Excellent numerical skills
- Excellent Microsoft Office 365 Skills in Excel
- Experience using a Data Visualisation tool (Power BI or Tableau) datasets
- Able to analyse/manipulate large datasets
- Robust understanding of supply chain processes
This is a full-time permanent position. Interested applicants should send a copy of their CV and covering letter to: vacancies@mdfosb.com with Data Analyst in the subject line. Closing date for applications is 5:00pm on Tuesday 18th February 2025.
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