About your role:
To get where we're going, we need a Commercial Planning & Forecasting Analyst who can support the Commercial Planning Team to provide analysis and forecasting models for the Services and Solutions plan for acquisition, retention and growth.
What will do you?
* Work with Effectiveness, Product Lines, Finance and other cross functional teams to develop customer, channel and product targets supported by econometric modelling.
* Work with the Channels and other stakeholders to ensure data submissions are comprehensive, in the right format and timely.
* Prepare data for use in the Planning model, ensuring accuracy.
* Build a robust, iterative Commercial planning and forecasting model leveraging modelling, analysis, trend performance and drivers.
* Update KPI's weekly for the latest monthly and quarterly review materials.
* Analyse trends and KPIs, highlighting areas of focus to improve decision making and to drive performance against the plan.
* Preparation of data and charts for Business Performance Meetings (performance forecast, analysis and tracking and forecasts).
* Perform data analysis to support the development of actionable insights into commercial performance.
Here's what we're looking for:
* Analytical experience in a commercial setting with a passion for producing insight to support decision making.
* Experience in developing predictive modelling based upon statistical data (e.g. Machine Learning) is desirable.
* Strong commercial and analytical mindset, as well as a drive to meet financial goals.
* Excellent Excel skills, with SQL/Python coding experience an advantage.
* Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in work.
* Capability to absorb and interpret large amounts of potentially conflicting data sets to identify true performance levels, key performance insights and inform decision making processes.
* High quality communication and presentation skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships of influence.
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