Background

Our client, a market leader in the poultry business, is seeking to hire a Marketing Officer/Analyst to analyze critical business information and provide reports that support decision making. This individual will be responsible for generating reports that support decision making in the Commercial division.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Identifies, structures & generates reports that support decision making in cross functional teams.
• Responsible for keeping the Executive Committee informed on daily and weekly basis on sales performance.
• Produces weekly Sales report for the sales meeting complete with a full analysis of performance.
• Circulating the weekly sales dashboard with a commentary to the Commercial Leadership Team and actively participates in the weekly sales meeting.
• Responsible for producing market share reports based on statistics and retail secondary sales data. Market share reports will be circulated to the Executive Committee.
• Coordinates pricing information updates the company product price list and circulates it to the relevant people.
• Responsible for circulation of Merchandising reports on a weekly basis
• Responsible for producing a dashboard for the CEO including production statistics.
• Coordinates collection of Commercial department board meeting inputs.
• Responsible for coming up with and maintaining the demand baseline for all categories and SKUs based on historical data.
• Liaise with the cross functional team to come up with a 24-month rolling forecast that is reviewed monthly.
• Measures the effectiveness of the forecast on a month basis through the calculation of forecast bias and forecast accuracy.
• Circulating the monthly forecast to the Executive Committee and HODs and discussing the key assumptions with the Commercial Executive and CEO.

Educational Qualifications & Experience:

REQUIRED:

• Diploma in Marketing and Data analytics.
• Software skills.

PREFERABLE:

• Computer science.
• Degree in Sales and Marketing.

• Identifies, structures & generates reports that support decision making in cross functional teams.
• Responsible for keeping the Executive Committee informed on daily and weekly basis on sales performance.
• Produces weekly Sales report for the sales meeting complete with a full analysis of performance.
• Circulating the weekly sales dashboard with a commentary to the Commercial Leadership Team and actively participates in the weekly sales meeting.
• Responsible for producing market share reports based on statistics and retail secondary sales data. Market share reports will be circulated to the Executive Committee.
• Coordinates pricing information updates the company product price list and circulates it to the relevant people.
• Responsible for circulation of Merchandising reports on a weekly basis
• Responsible for producing a dashboard for the CEO including production statistics.
• Coordinates collection of Commercial department board meeting inputs.
• Responsible for coming up with and maintaining the demand baseline for all categories and SKUs based on historical data.
• Liaise with the cross functional team to come up with a 24-month rolling forecast that is reviewed monthly.
• Measures the effectiveness of the forecast on a month basis through the calculation of forecast bias and forecast accuracy.
• Circulating the monthly forecast to the Executive Committee and HODs and discussing the key assumptions with the Commercial Executive and CEO.

• Software skills
• Data analytics
• Marketing

• Diploma in Marketing and Data analytics
• Software skills
• Computer science
• Degree in Sales and Marketing