Analyst

Job Description: Analyst Business Excellence, ED office based out of HO (Calcutta)

REPORTS TO: General Manager (Head - Business Excellence, ED’s office)

FUNCTION: Business Excellence, ED’s office

LEVEL: Analyst (Senior Executive)

Location: Calcutta

Team: Individual contributor

Role Requirements: 2+ years of experience with data analysis, hands-on with handling lot of information, ability to make sense out of data – make it decision-making ready, good communicator – ability to understand task given & explain activity done crisply & clearly;

Job purpose & Scope

We are seeking an analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive Analyst having experience of handling large chunks of data or who comes with a MIS background to join the Business Excellence team. This role involves ability to understands data from different functional areas (sales, marketing, HR, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement etc), adapt to data extraction from various reporting systems, and enabling business insights by supporting key initiatives through data; ensuring timely & accurate reports, dashboards, and analytics for business reviews.

Key Responsibilities:

. Business Review Support Assist in preparation of data-driven review decks for monthly/quarterly business reviews with business functions to highlight non-conformities

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. Data Analysis Analyse trends & variances, across business performance metrics to provide actionable insights to the organization for improving efficiencies.

. Support better planning and business excellence initiatives through deep-dive analysis for assisting the team on solving cross-functional challenges & ad hoc projects

. Program evaluation to see if the desired objectives are being met

. Highlight potential red flags or opportunities across markets, products, or functions

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. MIS & Dashboard Management Design, automate, and maintain MIS reports and dashboards for key business KPIs.

. Ensure real-time data availability and visualization through available tools.

. Maintain centralized databases for pan-India business operations covering sales & marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, costs, productivity, and performance.

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The ideal candidate?

• • Min 2 years of experience, preferably with Functional Heads/ Business Heads/CXOs for data analysis
• • Experience in creating data-driven analysis/ dashboard for ready decision making
• • Experienced working on consolidation & interpretation of data with more than 1 functional area
• • Hands-on with excel/ other data analysis tools to churn large data into meaningful analysis/ dashboards
• • Ability to handle confidential data with integrity

Skills needed:-

• a. Proficiency in MS Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, Power Query).
• b. High attention to detail with a problem solving approach
• c. Self-driven - Exhibit Ownership/ Accountability
• d. Cross functional stakeholder management is crucial.
• Comfortable managing interpersonal relationships across levels and engaging with large workforce outside their span of control
• Excellent data presentation skills – ability to articulate messaging clearly – ability to prepare self-explanatory dashboards/ presentation decks
• Understanding of basic business metrics
• Exposure to ERP or database systems (SAP, MS Access, Python, Google Suite) is a plus

What Business Excellence Team, ED’s office does?

Primary purpose of the team is as follows:-

Driving excellence in the Plywood vertical across functions like procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, sales etc. Finding areas of opportunity to drive improvement through structured data analysis

Solve cross-functional challenges faced by businesses with other functional verticals

Provide unbiased time-bound assessment of underlying issues limiting business growth to the promoters

Create white-space on ED’s calendar by freeing up her time for decision making

Team Deliverables

Reviewing business functions & their performance; & identifying non-conformities of the plywood vertical & all functional areas like Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Marketing, HR,

Study right metrics to evaluate program efficacy; & assess if objectives are met - Conducting time-to-time projects, on-board respective verticals Heads & ensure corrective/ preventive measures are actioned upon - focus on leading indicators/ parameters to assess laggards & issues in strategy execution

Assist teams to resolve with cross functional challenges

Raise the EWS (Early-Warning-Signals) to respective business heads & teams to work on corrective action & keep a track if these are being actioned upon timely

Timely escalation of red flags to Promoters in case of inaction before / function & business reviews