Overview The Business Analyst role will work with MENA PAK Foods Teams across the Gulf and Levant markets where his/her role will be focused on enhancing and automating business reporting to fuel stronger, faster business performance. This includes connecting multiple data sources through curated metrics and developing calculated metrics to focus on the key outcome and diagnostic measures. A critical element of this role is complete working knowledge on Nielsen/Retail Zoom databases and software.

Responsibilities Functional Responsibilities:

• Recurring Tracker and Report maintenance
• Execute monthly and quarterly Reporting / Trackers
• Support adhoc requests, diagnostics from stakeholders
• Support building BI Capabilities
• Coordinate with Stakeholders and Automation teams in building new capabilities within the team
• Ensure project completion on time and subsequent trainings and adoption
• Execute adhoc research work for BU team
• Execute adhoc as well as recurring requests from stakeholders
• Coordinate and align the right approach to best answer the questions, which will be used by the BU Executive Leaders
• Support with all Pre-AOP full year portfolio and brand deep dive analyses
• Execute against team charter (SLA) for Insights Supervisor for Business Insights
• Execute market, portfolio, and brand level reporting of Marketing KPI performance (utilizing dashboards, templated decks, and reporting tools)
• Provide business performance explanations, incorporating considerations beyond data into the reporting
• Explain business performance, drivers, and optimization opportunities
• Provide responses to ad-hoc follow-ups when double-click (additional qustions) required with tables/charts/stories using relevant data

Desired Candidate Profile

A mid-level Insight or Analytics professional with experience in a leading consumer goods company.

4-5 years+ experience

Retail audit experience

Education: BA in economics, math, marketing or management background

Language: English Fluent

Has a track record of identifying and championing new processes for improving fact-based decision making

Can synthesize multiple, disparate data sources into compelling growth strategies. Formulates a strong POV and can articulate future scenarios and is an exceptional story-teller.

Strong collaborator; Interested and motivated by working with others. Actively creates and participates in opportunities to co-create solutions across markets or brands; will be willing and able to embrace Responsive Ways of Working

Can easily see how insights/research learning can improve businesses impact and frames up reporting efforts and opportunities to inform business decisions

Proven analytics, shopper research experience, consumer insights experience or commercial experience in combination with strong analytical skills

High degree of familiarity with CPG and Food & Beverage industry data sources, including Nielsen/IRi (POS and HH panel), GlobalData, Kantar, etc.

Understanding of CPG industry business performance outputs and causal measures, their relationships, and how to bring business performance insights to life visually

Proficient with PowerPoint and Excel; including ability to write complex formulas

Experience with Tableau and PowerBI is good to have