What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Analyst, Ahold position at Unilever?
Background & Purpose of the Job
This position will support the Customer Business Managers on the Ahold Beauty and Personal Care team. This entails proactive analysis of current business trends, which includes identifying future opportunities and minimizing potential risks to the existing business.
Who You Are & What You’ll Do
The position will require advanced skills in managing, Nielsen/IRI, as well as being proficient Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate should have exceptional Excel skills. The role is responsible for weekly analysis and reporting of sales, trends, and competitive activity, along with creating actionable insights from the analysis of these trends.
- You’re a strategy guru: The position will interact daily with Supply Chain, Insights, category management, shopper marketing, and our retail teams to drive our business and ensure goals are met. Significant interaction with the customer is required.
- You love to win, and have fun doing it: The position will require managing multiple data feeds and analyzing that data to find the nugget of information that will enable our team to win in the marketplace. A highly analytical background along with a desire to win are attributes needed for our candidate to succeed in this role
- You’re a story teller: The position will require timely communication and in depth analytical support focused on business solutions. Reporting and managing professional presentations are necessary for the role, but the ideal candidate will also have the ability to effectively communicate that idea or story.
- You’re a dot connector: The position will require the ability to retrieve and analyze many different data points from multiple sources. The ideal candidate will have the ability to connect these points quickly to understand emerging trends as they are happening.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
- Bachelor’s degree required (business/marketing/communications), MBA preferred
- Minimum 1 year related experience: demonstrating knowledge of customer, data, systems and ability to analyze info and trends to make recommendations required
- Microsoft Office: Excel & Power Point proficiency required
- Experience with Syndicated data (Nielsen/IRI)
- Customer management/service or finance background is a plus
- Experience with: Sales recaps, Spending/Forecasting reporting preferred
What We Can Offer You
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Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.
