Director – Commercial Analytics & Business Insights

Director – Commercial Analytics & Business Insights

Requirements

• 10+ years delivering analytics-driven business insights for a consumer product business either in-house or at a top consulting firm
• Minimum 7+ years of project management experience required
• Minimum 5+ years of retail analytics experience required
• Bachelor’s degree in related field required
• MBA is a plus
• Excellent technical, analytical & organizational skills
• Experience with data visualization and reporting systems such as Tableau, Power BI, etc.
• Experience in developing and reporting business performance metrics
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, including ability to ‘tell a story’
• Advanced Excel skills and knowledge of Access, Publisher, and One Note
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to partner with system developers/designers
• Able to build strong working partnerships along with the ability to listen understand and influence
• Ability to craft concise recommendations based on thorough business and market analysis
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and data graphically in an effective way
• Ability to deliver on multiple assignments, meet tight deadlines and be effective and decisive under pressure
• Strong intellectual curiosity and continuous improvement, consulting, customer service mindset
• Team player with interpersonal ability to work with others and collaborate to achieve goals
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion
• Ability to operate autonomously, high tolerance for ambiguity and transformative culture

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of the data and analytics capability with particular emphasis on insights that accelerate growth across key regions globally
• Collaborates with teams to identify holistic data needs and develop solutions to address them
• Leads the vision and implementation for our Product Information Master (PIM) to effectively enable product analytics
• Synthesizes, analyzes and interprets data to from multiple sources to tell holistic story & guide strategic business decisions
• Uncovers insights related to products, channels, shoppers, and franchises, driving informed new business development opportunities
• Delivers CP’s business data & analytics roadmap needs in partnership with WBD technology team
• Work with our technology partners and data engineers to ensure high-quality, usable data are captured to support reliable business-facing analytics
• Manages internal retail POS data to provide accurate retail data to assist in growing key account retailers and provide competitive intelligence
• Enables product lifecycle analytics for the commercial businesses from contract negotiation to performance; sell-in and sell-thru
• Evaluates and analyzes existing licensee performance driving overall profitability
• Partners with category and retail teams to assist in creating detailed business plans focused on commercial and growth opportunities
• Creates models for business insights across distribution, market share, category and SKU mix, and price tiering
• Determines key performance indicators (KPIs) for GCP business and monitors performance of retail and commercial activities using key metrics to identify opportunities & inform actions
• Develop and maintain dashboards and standardized reports to track key performance metrics and empower self-service, data driven decisions
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation to increase efficiency and effectiveness of data analysis
• Ensure data integrity and accuracy by developing and implementing quality control measures
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in data analysis to continuously improve processes and strategies
• Defines business requirements for data collection and user access
• Delivers clear data driven insights in both verbal and written form
• Leads ad hoc projects, as requested

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA is a plus