Analyst II, Sales & Commercial Capabilities

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General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out

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Function Overview

GIC Sales Strategy & Intelligence team partners with our global General Mills sales teams in providing them with analytical horsepower and enable business continuity so they can focus on core activities - Selling, driving distribution gains and optimizing merchandising plans to deliver sales volume targets. We enable customer, pricing & promotion strategies across the global markets through our focused capabilities of Sales Execution, Trade & Strategic Revenue Management and Category Management. Teams within function are aligned to the above focused capabilities for each of our markets and each team member specializes in domains of Advanced Analytics, Visual Insights & Planogramming.

We are a family of Data analysts, Business analysts and Sr. Analysts with diverse opinions, cultures and passions and are united by our desire to serve the world by making food people love. We apply the principles of analytics to everything we do, constantly experimenting to discover new ways to add value to our stakeholders, customers and team members.

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Purpose of the role

The role will be responsible for partnering with the Category Management Teams in US markets. The ideal candidate will have a proven analytical track record with experience leveraging data to influence decision-making. Experience with customer databases, advanced Excel tools, and PowerPoint is a requirement.

The team members will independently build a seamless rapport with the point of contact overseas, address and initiate business requests, establish solutions through sophisticated reporting/tool building and superior presentations/visuals. The work will be sent with actionable analysis that showcases depth & breadth of business acumen.

The role includes capability development, enabling assortment optimization strategies, competitive intelligence, recommending distribution & shelving scenarios via various data modelling & analytical techniques either independently or through collaboration of cross-team peers.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Business Analysis & Capability Development (70% of time)

o Master and own deliverables in the form of reports & presentations and send quality output in a timely manner with upgrades

o Design superlative templates, Develop and execute dashboards/ tools in a turn-key scalable format

o Own development of best-in-class reports, tools and customized shelving/assortment plans while finding synergies and avoiding redundancy

o Provide insights around category & specific consumer behavior derived from Panel/POS/Syndicated data sources. Respond to questions about data and deliver resp onse in user friendly, visually represented format.

o Demonstrate an analytical bend of mind in all tasks/projects/collaborations

o Distill actionable insights from the data to offer client ready business recommendations by identifying meaningful customer indicators & trends

o Actively builds & proliferates category management knowledge & principles

o Confidently present category and trade dynamics to stakeholders and rationalize techniques and model fit

o Showcase thought leadership look for ways to integrate better business solutions

o Anticipating customer needs based on business trends and previous projects

Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Executional Excellence, and Project Management (20% of time)

o Ensure TAT is upheld via awareness on process requirements, meeting benchmark time estimates and through articulate expectation settings with the stakeholder

o Guarantee data quality and accuracy through thorough comprehension of request, accurate application of tools/platforms with an eye for detail and a robust data & logic check

o Eliminate Waste, Contribute to the Functional Productivity Goals

o CI Mindset: develop and drive a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team

o Project Management: Juggle multiple projects incld. long range projects and own project scoping, to trouble shooting, collaborating, to timely communication/iterations with peers and stakeholders to high impact completion and presentation

o Mentoring & Training new hires and analysts to excel in their roles and outperform expectations

Building Stakeholder Relationships (10% of time)

o Brand themselves as a SME on multiple fronts

o Understand client needs/ customer request and see the larger picture to enable holistic solutions

o Ability to recommend and influence changes to process/procedures

o Explore business development opportunities and transform into tangible results

o Ability to communicate challenges in an assertive manner

o Work through people and processes to accomplish superlative results

o Articulate and comprehensive presentations to the audience

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