Business Analyst

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA • $81K — $85K *
Mississauga, ON L4T 0A1In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business or equivalent experience
  • 2-3 years of business intelligence experience in CPG sales
  • Analytic or category management experience with Amazon and other digital retailers
  • Advanced proficiency with Amazon Vendor Central
  • Proficient in Power BI, including report optimization and visualization
  • Experience in data extraction and analysis using Nielsen
  • Ability to connect data trends with technological solutions for revenue generation

Responsibilities

  • Build complex models to evaluate operational opportunities
  • Harmonize disparate datasets to identify business trends
  • Communicate insights and create visualizations for decision-making
  • Support annual business planning with analytical reviews
  • Assist in Trade Spend management
  • Analyze promotional performance to inform future strategies
  • Act as a liaison among cross-functional teams regarding customer insights and business development

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and dental benefits starting day one
  • Company matched pension plan
  • Three weeks of vacation plus five personal days
  • Flexible hybrid work arrangements
  • Extensive training and development opportunities
  • Access to educational assistance and tuition reimbursement
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Gender affirmation benefits providing necessary care resources
  • Fertility services and surrogacy medical coverage
  • Adoption benefits to lessen financial barriers
  • Discounts on Nespresso products and other Nestlé items
  • Opportunity to bring your dog to work
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Position Snapshot

Business area: Nestlé Purina

Location:Mississauga, ON located at 2500 Royal Windsor Dr, Mississauga ON L5J 1K8;

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What to Expect:

As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for data modeling, translating data into actionable intelligence, play a lead role in business review and promotional analysis/evaluations within the Pureplay team to drive key performance indicators and optimize investment. This position is an existing vacancy.

A day in the life:
  • Be proficient at building complex models to assess operational opportunities and drive implementation cross functionally. Leverage diverse technology platforms to refine and automate data sources, harmonize data points, and model "what if" scenarios that can be used to evaluate and predict the impact to performance.
  • Harmonize and make sense of disparate datasets to determine business and operational trends and drive action. The ability to analyze unstructured data, form relationships, and provide insights into key elements for various levels of the organization is crucial to success.
  • Clearly communicate insights in context, translate data into visualizations that aid decision-making, demonstrate business insight, and align with business priorities.
  • Play a key supportive role in building the annual business plan based upon analytical review of historical and competitive data and strategic direction for the category, brand, and customer.
  • Provides input to support Trade Spend management
  • Provide analyses of promotional performance to drive future decision-making and support development of optimal promotion and media calendar
  • Be the liaison in communication between cross functional groups internally focusing on Customer Insights, Trade Development (i.e., new item launches, seasonal opportunities), Sales Finance, Supply chain etc.
  • Manage and develop customer administration: Contracts, New Product Forms, Pricing Adjustments, Customer Listing Base / Distribution. Additional support as required on an ad-hoc basis within the Customer Business Team


Role Requirements
  • Hold a university degree or have equivalent experience in a Business-related field
  • Minimum of 2-3 years of business intelligence experience supporting CPG sales team(s).
  • Experience working in an analytic or category management role with Amazon and other digital retailers (i.e., Walmart, Loblaws and/or Viola).
  • Must have advanced proficiency with Amazon Vendor Central
  • Experience with Power BI (or comparable platform) is required, including visualization, parameters, report optimization, creating measures, modeling, reports/dashboards, and dataflows. Experience in the Power Platform is preferred (Power Automate, Power Apps).
  • Have some experience in the extraction and analysis with Nielsen.
  • Ability to look at the data trends and recommend solutions that tie together a business problem and technology solution that may not have a clearly defined relationship or organizationally paved path to create revenue and reduce loss.


Preferred Skills
  • Ability to develop selling story/recommendations as output of analysis.
  • Have financial acumen and an understanding of P&L drivers.
  • Ability to work on several large projects at one time, with many data streams and deadlines. Being able to balance work and prioritize effectively are crucial to the job.
  • Demonstrate curiosity, continuous exploration and improvement, and ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business.


Benefits
  • Comprehensive total rewards benefits package including Health and Dental benefits that start on day one of employment
  • Company matched pension plan
  • Three weeks of Vacation and five personal days (Personal Paid Holidays)
  • Flexible and hybrid work arrangements
  • Excellent training and development programs as well as opportunities to grow within the company
  • Access to Educational Assistance & Tuition Reimbursement
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Gender affirmation benefits to ensure access to necessary care, resources, and coverage for gender-affirming procedures
  • Fertility Services and Surrogacy Medical Coverage to support the pursuit of a path to parenthood regardless of medical conditions, gender or sexual orientation
  • Adoption benefits to remove some of the financial barriers associated with adoption
  • Up to 50% off - Nespresso Coffee Machine, Capsules and accessories
  • Access to the Discount Company store with Nestlé, Nespresso, and Purina products (Located across various Nestle offices/sites)
  • Bring your dog to work!


Compensation Range: CAD 81,000 - CAD 85,000 + Bonus Eligibility

At Nestlé Canada, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. This position offers a competitive salary within the range specified above, aligned with our commitment to equitable pay practices.

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