Analyst I, Sales

Job Description:

Position Title

Analyst I – Sales & Commercial Capabilities

Function/Group

Sales & Commercial Capabilities

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

Regular

Role Reports to

Assistant Manager/Manager

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

GIC Sales Strategy & Intelligence team partners with our global General Mills sales teams in providing them with analytical horsepower and enable business continuity so they can focus on core activities – Selling, driving distribution gains and optimizing merchandising plans to deliver sales volume targets. We enable customer, pricing & promotion strategies across the global markets through our focused capabilities of Sales Execution, Trade & Strategic Revenue Management and Category Management. Teams within function are aligned to the above focused capabilities for each of our markets and each team member specializes in domains of Advanced Analytics, Visual Insights & Planogramming.

We are a family of Data analysts, Business analysts and Business Consultants with diverse opinions, cultures and passions and are united by our desire to serve the world by making food people love. We apply the principles of analytics to everything we do, constantly experimenting to discover new ways to add value to our stakeholders, customers and team members.

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Purpose of the role

The Role will be responsible to support the business teams across categories and retailers in the South Korea. The team member will complete several key responsibilities such as trade reconciliation, basic analysis and turn-key reporting.

The role encompasses data mining from multiple sources/tools to data harmonization to visualization combined with robust quality audit and documentation.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

60%

of Time

Deliver Standard Reports

• Master and own the monthly deliverables in the form of reports & presentations and send quality output in a timely manner

• Develop business and trade knowledge to enable conceptualizing R&A and help build valuable, crisp reports from scratch - turnkey reporting with HMM

• Upgrade monthly deliverables based on business requirements, ideate complex fixes and create functional, efficient reports

• Master Management for Trax in Korean language – tracking KPIs by Store/SKU, providing POG analysis

20%

of Time

Delivering Adhoc Requests | Build Reports from scratch

• Build templates with dynamic dashboards and visuals and upgrade products/markets/time frames per business requirements

• Provide analysis on reports generated through Trax & identify gap/opportunities – communicate the findings in Korean language to the key stakeholders

10%

of Time

Technical Expertise

• Actively learn and apply intermediate/advanced level of expertise in MS Excel, QAD, Nielsen, IRI, Trax etc.

• Build a robust audit system for all reporting activity

• Undergo trainings: As recommended and self-initiated refresher trainings to keep abreast of tool dynamics and their functional as well as tactical applications

10%

of Time

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

• Guarantee data quality and accuracy through thorough comprehension of request, accurate application of tools/platforms with an eye for detail and a robust data & logic check

• Eliminate Waste, Contribute to the Functional Productivity Goals

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education – Full time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferred Degree Requirements: Bachelors/Masters; Korean Language Expert
• Preferred Major Area of Study: Any Stream (preferably Business Management, Statistics, Marketing, Retail)

Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed

• Language Expertise in Korean is mandate
• Attention to detail, ability to complete given tasks with accuracy
• Meet or exceed internal or external customer timelines and expectations
• Strong command over oral and written English & basic stakeholder interaction experience
• Continuous Improvement mindset
• MS Office proficiency especially Excel
• Multitasking ability - work on a host of tools/databases and softwares/platforms
• Experience with market data analysis tools is required (experience working with ACNielsen and IRI data preferred.)