Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- Drive sales efficiency by accurate Sell-in & Sell-out reporting & forecasting in Wholesale, transitioning from reporting into constructive business insights and recommendations.
- To ensure ongoing support of the Emerging Market Wholesale team according to Global as well as EM best practice standards for realizing profitable market share growth and smooth interaction across all clusters.
- Build and create cutting edge analytics services to all market stakeholders, enabling them to take quantitatively based decisions.
- Act as local "center of expertise" within WHS for all analytics related topics and drive the implementation of analytics tools across the organization
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- Act as a business owner of EM Wholesale analytics reporting solutions and tools in supporting the Sales Development and Cluster Wholesale teams
- Capture, prioritize and structure EM BI demands and requirements in a timely and comprehensive manner. Align delivery milestones for the demand portfolio
- Strong level of Data warehouse design and development and Business intelligence frontend development. Experience with in-memory technology. Products in focus - SQL, SAP HANA, Databricks, Python, Spark, airflow, CICD pipelines, GIT, Jenkins, Power BI
- Strong Knowledge of BI (Databricks, Power BI) architecture, dashboard & report development including with a strong focus on visual insights.
- Prepare cutting-edge reporting solutions for our Emerging Market Teams, Clusters and Strategic Wholesale accounts based on Global Analytics framework (exemplary analytics areas may include but are not limited to):
- Sell In Performance
- Sell Out Performance
- Profitability, Performance analysis
- Orderbook Analytics
- Digital share performance analysis
- Channel Management analysis
- Distribution analysis
- Range analysis & quantitative assortment optimization.
- Digital Solutions Analysis.
- Strong Knowledge of the application architecture, development and deployment life cycle with strong analytical, systems and structured analysis, and social skills and with the ability to view issues and requirements from a business perspective.
- Basic project management knowledge and experience.
- Consult across market WHS and account teams in driving consistent language, insight generation and utilization towards business optimization and development through using analytics.
- Accountable for Market data sourcing and management.
- Work with Global Sales Development to input local insights and business reality, improve reporting structures and distil best practices across our markets.
- Create and drive awareness about standard KPIs across markets within EM.
- Provide and consolidate trainings across markets to understand EM KPIs such as Sell-Through by channel, Comp Growth, etc.
- Ensure accuracy and relevancy of data analyzed.
- Global: Global Sales Development & Digital Wholesale Solutions.
- Market: Sales Channels, Marketing, CTC, IT, Demand Planning, BI and Finance.
- Cluster: Sales Channels, Sales Coordination, Analytics, Customer Service and Finance.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good understanding of retail or consumer business process will be a plus.
- SAP, BI visualization tools (e.g. MicroStrategy, Tableau, PowerBI) experience is a plus.
- Understanding of Finance, Customer Service, Sales.
- High level of attention to detail and quality.
- Independent, logic and proactive thinker.
- Ability to work in a highly matrixed organization.
- Excellent project management skills.
- 3+ years of professional experience, with extensive experience in the area of Analytics (e.g. Web analytics, Digital Media/Marketing analytics, SEO Analysis or Attribution Modelling)
- Proficiency in MS Office, MSS. Alteryx, R or Python is an advantage.
- Cross-functional experience ideally with Customer Service/ Operations/ IT/ Sales/ Finance.
- Previous experience within an IT/service/SAAS environment is an advantage.
- Previous industry experience including sporting goods, fashion, FMCG.Cross-functional experience ideally with marketing / sales / finance.
- Industry: sporting goods / retail / consumer goods.