Commercial Intelligence Manager

Job Title: Commercial Intelligence & Reporting Manager

Location: West London, hybrid

Salary: £50,000 - 58,000

Industry: FMCG

Are you an analytical, data-driven and intellectually agile professional looking to take your career to the next level within one of the world's most exciting, fastest-growing FMCG brands?

Are you looking for the next opportunity to create and deliver critical corporate reports to an internationally-facing Board of Directors?

The Advocate Group is proud to be representing one of the world's most exciting, progressive and dynamic FMCG brands. Our client is a world-renowned name and a brand that boasts a decade of double-digit growth year upon year.

Key Responsibilities

• Programme manage the development of the commercial updates in the EMEA monthly and quarterly reports to deliver powerful business stories to our CEOs and Board of Directors; create the “story” for total EMEA alongside senior stakeholders and coordinate the other teams inputting into the reports.
• Constantly review and propose improvements to the overall reporting process, framework, and tools to maximise efficiencies.
• Programme manage the continuous development and refinement of commercial performance analytical tools and processes, e.g. PowerBI; NIQ (aka Nielsen) Discover.
• Account management of the central relationship with EPOS data provider NIQ; ensure delivery in line with expectations/service level agreements; drives issues resolution and improvements to processes and analytical tools; coordinate other stakeholders as necessary; negotiate yearly pricing; etc…
• Supports the Commercial Strategy & Insights Senior Director in the creation of the long-term commercial targets and strategy to achieve them, including yearly budgeting.
• Support the programme management of the business forum where the EMEA leadership team reviews business and discusses key commercial topics.
• Support the team and other division’s needs as appropriate.

Your Profile

Essential:

• Strong programme and project management skills: is well organized; effectively manages cross-functional project teams and engages key stakeholders (of varying levels of seniority); communicates with clarity, focus and passion; proactively solves problems and navigates the matrix structure smoothly; continuously review processes, ways of working, tools and implement improvements to drive efficiencies and effectiveness; has oversight of all projects/workstreams and proactively and effectively manages alignment with senior stakeholders.
• Business storyteller: analytical, can identify and tell a story from large quantities of verbal and numerical data; knows how to effectively deliver key messages through graphs, numbers and words, with gravitas and brevity, i.e. appropriate to the Board of Directors; identifies discrepancies/incongruencies and resolves them.
• Has an eye for detail, is meticulous.
• Excellent oral and written English.
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience using PowerBI or other data visualization tools.

Desirable:

• Experience using NIQ data.
• Understands commercial P&Ls.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knows how to create and maintain PowerBI databases and visualisations.

If you're interested in this position, please get in touch with Erin at the Advocate Group or APPLY NOW to be considered for this exciting vacancy.

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The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

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