Commercial / Pricing Analysis

Pay: 38,000.00- 45,000.00 per year

Job Description:

Commercial / Pricing Analysis

Leyland

Agility is working with a UK-based, industry-leading manufacturer with global distribution.

This role will be based at their Manufacturing Site in Leyland and report into the Senior Leadership Team

Job Purpose

In a changing landscape of route to market our client requires exploring other markets and it is imperative that they have accurate costings and appropriate profit margins (pricing) for their products to be competitive in these new marketplaces for our business.

They need to remain competitive in their current core markets to maintain sales and are keen to monitor the current e-commerce sales performance

You will be preparing the Commercial forecast for sales & margin working with the sales and accounts team to ensure accuracy of the data and reporting.

Be the key person in the company for data and analysis pulling together information from the various data sources and presenting it in a meaningful manner to all levels of the business across all disciplines.

Responsibilities:

Commercial/ Pricing Analysis

• Fully understand sales & gross margin by channel, category, customer & SKU
• Monitor and report ROI for all promotional activity.
• Daily / weekly & monthly reporting to management of sales & gross margin
• Deliver accurate commercial analysis, with insight to support findings, and solutions that can be implemented to resolve challenges or improve working practices.
• Pro-actively monitor customer and SKU performance and highlight opportunities, risks, or anomalies.
• Become the key user able to extract and analyse sales and margin, distribution, stock, purchasing and any other data we have available to support in both standard and ad hoc analysis as required.

Operations Analysis

• Report Site efficiency with insight on how to reduce downtime in the site
• Analyse Labour variance with feedback on what drives labour cost to be higher than planned.
• Partner Factory Manager for cost-saving initiatives.
• Analyse stock gains & losses for repeat trends and develop root cause analysis of any consistent causations.
• Forecasting
• Provide sales & gross margin, for all business forecasting.
• Review & interrogate forecast sales volumes used within the MRP
• Using the MRP provide material & packaging requirements to relevant buyers.
• Forecast & circulate inventory reports to aid business understanding of stock levels and agree actions to ensure target inventory holding is met along with no future write offs or stock outs.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Analytical, inquisitive, and perceptive approach
• AAT level 3 or equivalent
• Advanced Excel
• Independent worker,self-driven, entrepreneurial approach
• Advanced communication skills, both verbal and meaningful presentation of data
• Attention to detail.
• Minimum 2 years Commercially focused experience
• Prepared to support and develop 'best in class' solutions, continuous improvement.
• Positive attitude deals with challenge & change.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• 2+ years relevant analysis experience

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Work Location: In person