Sales Analyst - FMCG

Our client in Atlantis is recruiting for a Sales Analyst.

The analyst will be responsible for evaluating and identifying trends in sales by analysing industry data, from both within a company and outside. This involves collecting and examining data and using the information gathered to create coherent, intelligent reports, then presenting your reports to your team and to management:

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assisting sales administrators with pricing and loading of deals
• Assisting sales administrators with any pricing queries.
• Collating and managing free stock budget, providing monthly update reports on free stock budget.
• Office admin support for Customer Executive as well as all Customer managers.
• Develop monthly sales reporting tools not limited to target vs actual.
• Review internal NOD vs agents NOD
• Delivery of pre-defined reports to customer managers and customer executive.
• Track performance against business targets, monthly KPI metrics as determined by customer managers.
• Publish daily dash board tracking actual vs sales objective.
• Run a monthly Business review reporting
• Assist and compile monthly data for the sales team – monthly for management meetings and quarterly for sales and marketing meetings (internal).
• Assist in management of any sales incentive models for agents.
• Create and update NPD trackers to monitor performance against set objectives.
• Work on varied ad hoc data analytics tasks delivering structures reporting
• Provide support to all customer managers to analyse sell in / sell out data. Work with data suppliers (IRI, distributors local and export, retailers) to source data and consolidate data into internal reports.
• Mine databases for key insights which can be used to assist with future strategy direction.
• Compile and analyse data over time to forecast trends.
• Gather and analyse data to understand issues and address proactively.
• Reviewing sales trends and liaising with customer development managers, customer executive, business development manager to assist in developing applicable strategies.

Key Competencies

• advanced problem-solving and analysis skills
• superior oral and written communication skills
• high level of organization and detail-orientation
• strong work ethic and willingness to take initiative
• good attitude toward teamwork as well as the ability to work independently
• demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize
• excellent time management

Requirement for the role

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, marketing or finance
• Strong knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software

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