Decision Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct and develop analysis to defined decision support areas:

  • Assortment management

  • Distribution/Route to market decisions

  • Promotions / A&P management

  • Services

• 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

• Implementation and training of reporting/analysis towards business and local finance colleagues

• Contribution to reporting and analytics development projects

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

Key requirements:

• Master`s degree or similar, in relevant field, e.g., Finance or Economics

• Previous experience from finance business partnering, controlling or FP&A role

• Experience from working or co-operating with sales, marketing and portfolio teams

• Experience from project management is considered as an asset

• Experience from Power BI, programming languages, utilizing AI, SQL, BI tools are considered as an asset

Skills and competencies:

• High motivation and “can do” attitude

• Strong analytical, mathematics and problem-solving skills

• Developer and business-oriented mindset

• Excellent excel skills

• Team-work orientation and good co-operations skills

• Fluency in English

• Eagerness to grow professionally and stay updated with the latest tools and techniques in the fast-evolving field of analytics

• Ability to prepare insight based on data and communicating it understandably to stakeholders

• Understanding statistical methods and how to apply them to solve business problems is considered as an asset