Senior Decision Support Analyst

As an Senior Decision Support Analyst at PPG, you will play a crucial role in driving value creation through advanced analytics. You will provide actionable insights and strategic recommendations to support key business decisions. This role requires a deep understanding of data analysis, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and the ability to collaborate with various teams to achieve business objectives. If you are passionate about leveraging data to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Responsibilities:

• Create, conduct and develop analysis to defined decision support areas:

  • Assortment management

  • Distribution/Route to market decisions

  • Promotions / A&P management

  • Services

• Lead identification of analytics objects that will drive the value creation of defined decision support areas

• Focus on predictive and prescriptive analytics which try to answer questions “what will happen” and “what should we do”

• Provides analysis, visualization, interpretation and recommendation for business for value creation including e.g.:

  • Opportunity and potential identification

  • Opportunity and risk quantification

  • Sensitivity illustration

  • Optimization recommendation

  • Advanced modelling and simulation

• Co-operation with EMEA Marketing & Portfolio leaders and their teams

• Leading reporting and analytics development projects, e.g., analytics innovation projects

• Co-operation and contribution to BI team’s total roadmap creation and execution

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field (e.g., Finance or Economics).

• More than 5 years of experience in finance business partnering, analytics, or FP&A roles.

• Experience working with sales, marketing, and portfolio teams.

• Project management experience.

• Proficiency in Power BI, programming languages, AI, SQL, and BI tools is considered an asset.

• Fluency in English.