Commercial Insights Analyst

Florida Crystals / ASR Group•West Palm Beach, FL

About The Position

The Commercial Insights Analyst is a highly analytical and strategic thinker who will lead ad-hoc projects and workflows that provide strategic insights and data driven recommendations that drive business growth and optimize commercial strategies. The scope of work will be driven by the needs of the commercial organization, and the individual will work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, finance, operations, and supply chain to conduct comprehensive analyses. The role holder will have an ability to research information to underpin analyses, incorporate that research to build financial and market trend models, analyze data with attention to detail and be able to clearly and concisely summarize key findings to commercial management. Key Outputs/Deliverables This role requires the ability to deliver compelling stories that turn complex analysis into impactful business recommendations across all major functional areas of the ASR commercial organization. This role leads the quantification and analysis of identified market trends, data and competitive intelligence for the business, and translates information into content that helps shape strategy, messaging and enablement for sales, marketing, and product management teams. Advancement of understanding and impact of changing commercial landscape: Grocery, B2B, Specialty, G-commerce, sugar substitutes, packaging, new product/business initiatives, sustainability, annual marketing budgeting, etc. Converts numeric information into visual outputs via various digital Provide general support and recommendations to all stakeholders during annual business planning process

Requirements

Undergraduate Degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Physics or other related field of study
1-3 years of professional experience in a role or function that required financial and forecasting model building, ad-hoc analyses, and where work streams are varied, corporate strategy, consulting or internal consulting experience preferred
Excellent written, and verbal communication and presentation skills – able to work across various teams and distill complex ideas
Self-reliant, resilient, detail-oriented, and proactive with a high motivation to make things happen and to comprehensively research ideas
Proven success in utilizing analytics to provide strategic recommendations and drive concrete action
Results-oriented with a positive “can-do” attitude and a strong desire to get things done
Thrive in a fast-paced and flexible environment with the ability to deal with ambiguity
Advanced Microsoft Excel (ex. multi-sheet modeling, Goal-seek functionality, sensitivity tables, and array functions) and other modeling platform skills, knowledge of data visualization tools such as Power BI
Ability to continuously learn and develop both in terms of how to improve work product but also in platform knowledge (both internal & external)

Nice To Haves

Experience with scripting languages in R / Python

Responsibilities

Build predictive models and forecasts to support market demand views and individual product and customer performance
Lead research to inform modeling assumptions, by leveraging a variety of databases and sources, synthesizing different pieces of information
Discern trends, patterns and anomalies to support data and resource-driven forecasting assumptions that translate into forward-looking models
Analyze large datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and insights that drive commercial strategies.
Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics
Support in the process of customer and strategic item situation assessment, including an up-to-date understanding of customer category trends, to ensure that category risks & opportunities are highlighted
Conduct market research to identify industry trends, customer behaviors, and competitive dynamics.
Provide insights into market opportunities and risks to support strategic planning.
Collaborate with sales, marketing, and finance teams to provide data-driven recommendations that improve revenue growth and profitability.
Contribute to pricing, product, and promotional strategies with robust analysis and forecasting.
Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and present findings to senior stakeholders.
Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains across commercial operations.
Lead the Marketing SG&A monthly budget tracking and accrual process including periodic spend forecasting and variance analyses
Support sales channel result reporting and result explanation material development both on an on-going basis and for key internal meetings