Senior Analyst, Sales & Commercial Capabilities

General Mills, Inc.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills, Inc. is seeking a Senior Analyst to drive volume growth for Walmart+ Club Channel customers and to manage data analytics, trade planning and channel engagement.

You will partner with the Channel Development Manager to support Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s, and to help lead the innovation pipeline. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and an ability to balance strategic vision with execution.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of relevant Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience in CPG (or related) industry, Data Modelling preferred.
• 5-6 years of Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience, Data Modelling preferred.
• Strong command over oral and written English.

Responsibilities

• Retrieve and analyze syndicated customer and consumer data to understand category and industry trends.
• Analyze Walmart data paired with Nielsen data to identify issues and opportunities and summarize with solutions.
• Maintain automated sales reporting for the zone and collaborate with internal teams on national trade strategies.

Job description

**OVERVIEW**Senior Analyst is responsible for driving incremental volume growth and sustaining existing volume by understanding customer needs and linking them to GMI’s product and service strategies.In this role you will manage data analytics, insights, trade planning and channel engagement for Walmart + Club Channel Customers (Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s). You will partner closely with the Channel Development Manager to drive business growth. You will have the opportunity to work directly with the customer team for GMI’s largest customers, gain significant exposure to a wide array of systems & platforms and help lead the innovation pipeline, including category expansion.**Purpose of the role**Strong candidates for this role will have previous experience collaborating closely with cross-functional partners, the ability to flex between strategic vision and execution, and strong analytics experience.**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES****Problem Solving, Analytics & Insights*** Retrieve and analyze syndicated customer and consumer data to understand category and/or industry trends* Utilize Walmart data, paired with Nielsen data, to identify issues and opportunities. Assess trends and market performance, provide analysis of executional performance, evaluate market conditions, and summarize with proposed solutions and actions* Problem solving is a key focus of the role, providing business solutions to customer activities with a concise recap of data and information to form an opinion of business conditions* Provide ongoing maintenance for automated sales reporting for the zone* Accelerate Digital Growth at Walmart by retrieving and analyzing Scintilla and 3rd party digital data to provide actionable digital insights* Partner with the Ecom Dev Manager to analyze performance drivers, summarizing and sharing proposed solutions with Omni Sales**Executional Excellence*** Build, run and maintain recurring automated sales reporting for Club Channel Pet business* Meet annual sales goals by maintaining accurate sales planning and spending information in Blue Planner & Sales Volume Estimate* Collaborate with internal teams to assess national trade strategies and optimize GMI resources.**Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Executional Excellence, and Project Management*** Ensure TAT is upheld via awareness on process requirements, meeting benchmark time estimates and through articulate expectation settings with the stakeholder.* 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.* CI Mindset: develop and drive a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team.* Project Management: Juggle multiple projects including 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.* Mentoring & Training new hires and team members to excel in their roles and outperform expectations.**Building Stakeholder Relationships*** Brand themselves as a SME on multiple fronts* Understand client needs/ customer request and see the larger picture to enable holistic solutions.* Ability to recommend and influence changes to process/procedures.* Explore business development opportunities and transform into tangible results.* Ability to communicate challenges in an assertive manner.* Work through people and processes to accomplish superlative results.* Articulate and comprehensive presentations to the audience**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS*** 4-6 years of relevant Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience in CPG (or related) industry, Data Modelling preferred **.*** 5-6 years of Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience, Data Modelling preferred**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS*** Education – Full time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)* Strong command over oral and written English* Multitasking ability - work on a host of tools/databases and software/platforms effectively to manifest superior results.* Organization and Prioritization - in line with the team's goals* Company Values - Do the right thing all the time; Play to win; Grow and Inspire; Win as a team; Act boldly move quickly.* Familiarity with wide array of datasets/platforms/systems including Scintilla, Madrid, Nielsen, Circana/IRI, Numerator, O9, Blue Planner, Tableau* Selling & Influential Communication* Initiative-taking and the ability to manage ambiguous situations in a calm, composed manner.* Process Transformation* Leads Innovation: Tech & Data Savvy