Business Analyst

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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• Job Description
• Purpose/Key Objectives of the Job
  
  

What is the primary purpose of this job? Describe the 5-6 main objectives of the job and the approximate % of time spent performing each objective.

• Execute the strategy and planning workstreams through collaboration with stakeholders in BU South Asia
• Responsible for gathering inputs, analysis and submission of inputs as per the requirement for business planning, intelligence and strategy projects.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders for intelligence and strategy project.
• Preparing/finalizing various internal documents and processes in a summarized way for consumption by top management
• Market & Competitor Intelligence: Maintain information and updated database on competition, macro-economic indicators, market data and analyst reports, and releases timely reports to internal clients.
• Market Share analysis: work closely with country team to seek inputs and alignment on market share modeling and calibrate market share on on-going basis.
• Maintain the repository and update for intelligence & strategy workstreams for BU South Asia
• Responsibilities
  
  

Describe the responsibilities as clearly as possible. Which tasks is the job holder responsible for and in what way? What results are to be achieved?

• Execution of data driven workstreams for strategy and intelligence workstreams
• Responsible for executing the planning process with inputs from different stakeholders and preparing executive presentations based on the same
• Develop BU Strategic Plans BU sub-category and regional plans on ambition, where to play, how to win and the financial impact including co development with individual countries.
• Co-develop new strategies in selected regions and sub-categories by providing recommendation, delivering a common established strategy framework, translates them into actionable and quantitative plans and budgets as well as supporting them through the process.
• Aligns goals, processes, and resources of different functions for intelligence & strategy
• Conduct specific and ad hoc projects across BU
• Work with countries on specific identified challenges with the purpose of coming up with a stated strategy to overcome these challenges and also an action plan
• Support Business Planning: Execution of yearly business planning for all the countries in BU
• Based on collating and updating data from multiple sources –internal dashboards, primary research, secondary data sources and inputs from functions.
• Execute and Support in Situation Analysis, Commercial Plan and Operational Plan submission. Validate their submission and ensure alignment to regional and global guidelines.
• Coordinate with countries and functions to ensure timeliness and quality of input.
• Market & Competitor Intelligence: Maintains information and updated database on key competition, macro-economic indicators, market data and releases timely reports to internal clients.
• Collect data on economy, consumers/ customers, market, competitors through multiple sources – both internal and external and structure the data in meaningful way
• Develop and maintain knowledge databases and file relevant (business) information either in existing systems or/and develop new platforms/ systems.
• Release periodic reports on key competitors in the region, in alliance with finance, marketing & country teams and global strategy & planning team.
• Others: Work with all the country teams for delivery of correct, timely and complete information in form of data analysis, presentation and reports that support strategy & planning requirement of the business and any other ad-hoc requests.
• Collecting quantitative and qualitative data from internal sources in the regional office, global office, countries, and External sources such as annual reports
• Analyzing and interpreting data. Transforming data into insight and actionable strategy reports/ presentations.
• Facilitate ad-hoc strategy inputs for any strategic initiative
• Close collaborate amongst all functional teams specially Marketing organization and cross functional BU teams.
• Level of Autonomy
  
  

What decisions may the job holder make without first seeking approval from higher manager/supervisor?

• On strategic imperatives, alignment with Regional Strategy Manager and Regional marketing head is a must
• Examples
  
  

Please give two examples of the typical challenges or problems the job holder faces in their daily work and what they must do to overcome them.

• Ambiguity on data and/or data gaps. Using multiple internal and external data sources and challenge of synthesizing data across these multiple sources to come to meaningful conclusions.
• Triangulation of information to validate the inputs across countries
• Complexity of multi-country, multi-cultural, multi- functional interface
• Job Requirements
  
  

Essential Educational Qualifications, Relevant Experience And Requested Skills.

• Sharp and analytical- have the ability to interpret and work with data in large quantity.
• Presentation specialist: Excellent MS Office skills (especially PowerPoint and Excel is a must) with ability to meaningfully summarize information
• Good communication skills in English- written & spoken. Should have the gravitas and ability to hold their own in conducting meetings/workshops with stakeholders who will be often very senior to the individual.
• Familiarity with reporting and summarizing data based workstreams.
• Previous work experience in Consulting/Strategy/ Market Intelligence & Planning is essential but not the only criteria.
• Management Graduate (MBA) with work experience of 2-4 years of which at least 2 years should have been in Consulting/ Strategy/ Intelligence
• Experience with analysis and visualization tools like Power BI is preferable.
  
  

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.