Regional Commercial Analyst - Asia Pacific

Griffith Foods is the caring, creative product development partner helping food companies meet the evolving needs of consumers while sustaining the planet. As a family business founded in 1919 and headquartered in Alsip, Illinois USA, Griffith Foods is known for true, collaborative innovation guided by their Purpose of "We Blend Care and Creativity to Nourish the World". The company's product capabilities range from seasonings and marinades to coating systems and sauces that are better for people and better for the planet. For more information, visit www.griffithfoods.com.

Requirements:

• Working closely with Griffith's 4 commercial functions (Business Development & Sales, R&D, Marketing and Culinary), as well as with the Finance team, the Commercial Analyst builds the analytical and Commercial performance tools and dashboards. Working with Analyzes sales data at Customer Segment, Product Category, and Customer levels. Enables the Go to Market teams to drive increased:
  • Effectiveness - supports the strategic decision making
  • Efficiency - through increased visibility and transparency, helps eliminate time consuming activities that bring limited value, and prioritize customers and projects, eventually supporting the organization increase our project hit rate
  • Profit and resource allocation

• Business Process Owner (BPO)
  • Ensures data accuracy and integrity across commercial systems
  • Supports the global development for PowerBI, CRM and other dashboards. Acts as the Regional representative, ensuring the needs of the region are elevated to the Global team
  • Point of contact for Regional training and new releases deployment

• Helps structure and promote the Go to Market cross-business units and cross-regional communication through the shared drive (e.g. win sheet, account plans etc.)

• Supports the coordination of selected Commercial Excellence initiatives

• Minimum Bachelor, preferably in a commercial, business, economics, commercial finance, or related discipline
• Minimum 4-6 years' experience sales analysis, business analysis, or a similar analytical role, preferably in the food, food ingredient or FMCG industry
• Strong analytical skills; able to draw insights from data
• Experience in designing BI / analytics dashboards. Proficiency in Microsoft Suite of products, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and with PowerBI, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is also required
• Solid understanding of sales / commercial processes, KPIs, and forecasting methods
• Excellent communication skills to present complex data clearly and persuasively
• Proactive and self-motivated mindset
• Proven record of personal accountability and delivering results
• Comfortable managing multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities and deadlines, in a dynamic, challenging environment
• Experience in driving commercial initiatives across functions and geographies is an advantage
• English fluency; ability to understand and speak Thai is a plus
• Comfortable to travel internationally (approximately 20% of the time)