Data Associate

Powai, Mumbai, India
- Trade & Strategic Capabilities
- 33336

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Position Title:
Business Analyst/ Planogram Specialist

Country:
India

**Location**:
Mumbai

Recommended Level:
SS 40

**Job Type**:
Full time

Role Reports to:
Assistant Manager/Manager

Geographical Scope of the Role - Location:
US/UK/Other International

% of travel required:
None

Function/Group:
Sales Capabilities

**Job Overview**:
The Role will be responsible to support the business teams across categories and regions in the US / International markets.

The team member will independently and proactively support a wide variety of planograming & reporting needs including refreshing excel reports & initiating value adds, proprietary tool proficiency and technical expertise on planograming.

**Job responsibilities**:
**Deliver Standard and Adhoc Reports/POGs | Build Reports/POG's from scratch**
- Master and own the monthly deliverables in the form of reports & presentations and send quality output in a timely manner
- Upgrade monthly deliverables based on business requirements and facilitate the larger team create functional, high impact efficient reports
- Comprehend the nuances of trade, merchandising & category strategies and leverage various tools to build real-time performance trackers from scratch with crisp observations and insights
- Work alongside of peers and inculcate best practices and tackle real time business questions with value adds
- Display a high sense of accountability and presence of mind when completing requests with high visibility or tight turnaround times and communicate effectively
- Find synergies in the reports/database to avoid redundancy
- Resource Pool on complex projects with the team and contribute to brand building

**Technical Expertise**
- Actively learn & implement principles of trade & category management
- Build a robust audit system for all reporting activity
- Build an awareness of existing macro's in the team and re-use to make data mining, data harmonization and data audit efficient and effective

Knowledge Sharing: Gain in-depth knowledge of customer details as well as a comprehensive understanding of GMI product groups and DMSP strategies and share new learning’s with the team on a continual basis

**Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Executional Excellence, Stakeholder and Project Management**
- Ensure TAT is upheld via awareness on process requirements, meeting benchmark time estimates and through articulate expectation settings with the stakeholder
- Eliminate Waste, Contribute to the Functional Productivity Goals
- CI Mindset: develop a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team
- Project Management: Juggle multiple projects seamlessly starting with project scoping, to tackling hurdles to timely communication/iterations with peers and stakeholders to high impact completion and presentation.
- Mentoring & Training Executive and Associates to excel in their roles and outperform expectations

**Education**
- Minimum Degree Requirements:

- Bachelors

Preferred Degree Requirements:

- Bachelors/Masters
- Preferred Major Area of Study:
Business Management, Statistics, Marketing, Retail, Economics

**Experience**
- Minimum years of related experience required:
3 years of relevant Business Reporting or Analytics experience in CPG (or related) industry.

Preferred years of related experience:
3 - 5 years of relevant Business Reporting and/or Analytics experience

**Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed**
- Experience with market data analysis tools is preferred
- MS Office proficiency preferred
- Attention to detail, ability to complete given tasks with accuracy
- Comprehending complex requests & meeting timelines and expectations
- Strong command over oral and written English
- Continuous Improvement mindset
- MS Office proficiency especially Excel
- Multitasking ability - work on a host of tools/databases and software’s/platforms
- Organization and Prioritization
- Collaborate with peers to align with the team’s vision
- Ability to make optimal placement & assortment related decisions
- Experience with market data analysis tools is required (experience working with ACNielsen and IRI data preferred.)
- Experience with Planogram building software (ProSpace or Apollo) is preferred - SMS
- Introduction to Grocery Retail Concepts is preferred
- SMS

**Competencies/Behaviors required for job**

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