Business Advisory Analyst

Accenture PLC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Business Advisory Analyst to join our Marketing Operations team in the United States. You will balance marketing complexity with resource constraints, drive performance through data, and support account management across FMCG trade channels.

Responsibilities include developing trade plans, leveraging platforms such as Salesforce and Anaplan, and delivering PowerBi dashboards to monitor campaigns and results.

Qualifications

• Primary skill - Account Management - P1
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in FMCG industry
• Experience with Trade Marketing operations and planning
• Fluency in English; familiarity with Trade CRM & planning tools (Salesforce, Anaplan). Anaplan certification preferred
• Proficient in PowerBi and Excel; PowerPoint skills
• Experience in data analysis and presentations

Responsibilities

• Have good understanding of End Market business priorities, trade agenda and trade operating model for specific EM is assigned, while working from GBS Hub (Remote). Full understanding and alignment on each cycle plan objectives and activities.
• Execute trade activities through aligned trade plan and B2B platform functionalities (like Anaplan as Trade Planning tool and Salesforce etc Trade systems). Based on end market RTM model & platforms, need to manage:
• Trade coverage planning
• Cycle activity planning (Customer incentive, Field Force incentive, new brand launch activities, POSM planning, pricing changes etc)
• Sales planning process at Customer level (if company own distribution model)
• Ensure timely and accurate input of campaign activities aligned with trade objectives.
• Create and manage trade activity evaluation (cycle dashboards) via PowerBi
• Maintain and update key data sets
• Coordinate system maintenance and upgrades, including Change Requests (CR) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Liaise with IDT and vendors to resolve system issues and ensure platform stability.
• Provide system training and support to internal users to ensure effective platform usage.
• Document and communicate system processes and updates.
• Work closely with Trade, IDT, and external vendors to ensure seamless platform operations.
• Support cross-functional teams with system-related queries and enhancements.

Skills

Account Management

Trade Marketing

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Any Graduation

Tools

Salesforce

Anaplan

PowerBi

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Skill required:

Marketing Operations - Account Management

Designation:

Business Advisory Analyst

Qualifications:

Any Graduation

Years of Experience:

3 to 5 years

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Any Graduation

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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What would you do?

• Help balance increased marketing complexity and diminishing marketing resources.
• Drive marketing performance with deep functional and technical expertise, while accelerating time-to-market and operating efficiencies at scale through Data and Technology, Next Generation Content Services, Digital Marketing Services & Customer Engagement and Media Growth Services.
• Role requires Digital Marketing Ads Promotion creation design
• Implement client account plans through relationship development and opportunity pursuits that builds deeper client relationships.
• Includes monitoring existing services to identify opportunities that provide additional and innovative value to the client.

What are we looking for?

• Primary skill - Account Management - P1
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in FMCG industry
• Specific experience on Trade Marketing Operation and Planning process and trade system
• Strong collaborator and cross functional working experience with strong inter-personal skills and drive for results.
• Proactive in seeking new ways improvements in planning process system
• Fluency in English language. Experience in Trade CRM & planning tool (Salesforce, Anaplan, etc). Anaplan certification is preferred.
• Experience in handling Trade marketing data
• Proficient in PowerBi, Excel
• Proficient in PowerBi, Excel and Power-point
• Experience in data analysis, interpretation, and summary presentations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Have good understanding of End Market business priorities, trade agenda and trade operating model for specific EM is assigned, while working from GBS Hub (Remote). Full understanding and alignment on each cycle plan objectives and activities.
• Execute trade activities through aligned trade plan and B2B platform functionalities (like Anaplan as Trade Planning tool and Salesforce etc Trade systems). Based on end market RTM model & platforms, need to manage:
• Trade coverage planning
• Cycle activity planning (Customer incentive, Field Force incentive, new brand launch activities, POSM planning, pricing changes etc)
• Sales planning process at Customer level (if company own distribution model)
• Ensure timely and accurate input of campaign activities aligned with trade objectives.
• Create and manage trade activity evaluation (cycle dashboards) via PowerBi
• Maintain and update key data sets
• Coordinate system maintenance and upgrades, including Change Requests (CR) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Liaise with IDT and vendors to resolve system issues and ensure platform stability.
• Provide system training and support to internal users to ensure effective platform usage.
• Document and communicate system processes and updates.
• Work closely with Trade, IDT, and external vendors to ensure seamless platform operations.
• Support cross-functional teams with system-related queries and enhancements.