Data Integration Specialist: Bakery Sales

2 weeks ago

Midrand, South Africa Premier Full time

**Job Main Purpose**:
**Job Objectives**:
To support ongoing refinement of the bread pricing strategy in collaboration with the Bakery Sales Executive by:

- Collating and cleaning up data from a variety sources
- internal and external (desk research, syndicated data, competition, etc)
- Perform analyses on all internal and external bakery sales related reports to identify market trends and extract insights from the data
- Identifying opportunities and trends across all channels
- Comparing options to improve competitive position in marketplace considering the volume, revenue, profit and share change impact
- Making recommendations to refine pricing strategies

To provide analytics to support the bakery sales management team to optimise marginal contribution by:

- Tracking all bakery related SKU‘s performance against agreed pricing and promotions compliance requirements
- Comparing own and competitors SKU‘s performance
- Maintain database SKU P&L model of each market and run simulation when required
- Developing and maintaining a data base and dashboard for all SKU‘s marginal contribution per region and team in collaboration with the IT BI Team.

Enable the bakery sales team to optimize the return on promotion spent in collaboration with the Bakery Sales teams by:

- Analyze consumer promotion effectiveness by product, customer in the formal channels.
- Interpret data interpretation in relation to pricing and promotions vs. Strategic intent.
- Analyze ROI of trade spends by product, market
- Develop viewpoint on elasticity of volume to changes in Trade spend etc by product, market.
- Develop profitability waterfall at granular level that can be rolled up as required

Support project implementation by leading the process and system design for new project through
- Researching, benchmarking & implementing data set best practices
- Acting as a project team member and sharing best practices
- Supplying the required data as needed for the business case/ project scope
- Conducting Periodic DILO‘s (field research) to gain practical insights.

To support continuous improvement in the bakery sales information management processes by:

- Identifying improvement opportunities
- Participating in the Bakery Sales Management Invocom
- Participating in corrective and preventative actions relating from the process improvement projects

**Qualification Requirements**:
**Education**:

- Data science analytics degree

**Experience Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- 3-5 years Sales related administration role
- 2-3 years Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment

**Key Outputs**:
**Knowlegde requirement**:

- Data analytical tools for qualitative and quantitative data
- Advanced Essential Statistical techniques
- Advanced Essential Data visualization principles
- Essential Accounting principles and process understanding.

**Skills Requirement**:

- MS office (Powerpoint and Excell)
- Advanced Essential Data Analytical Skills
- Advanced Essential BI tools experience (Power BI)
- Essential Research and learning skills
- Report writing/ Presentation building
- Business and Financial Acumen
- Interpersonal Skills
- Problem resolution/ Route cause analysis
- DRM- Route Optimization/ Viability analysis

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