Responsiblities

As a commercial analyst with us at Greencore you will be focused on improving our commercial performance through the analysis of commercial data from our partners. This can range from identifying global sales trends through to individual store performance around sales patterns and wastage. This will then allow you to identify and opportunities for improvement and growth.

Along with this the key responsibilities for the role are:

• Supporting the Head of Commercial Finance through the delivery of the short-medium term needs and objectives of the Commercial Finance function
• Identifying areas for potential volume and margin growth and enhancement
• Providing insight for the wider business, and our Customer, into where profitability could be improved or developed
• Providing insightful analysis of our own, and our Customer's, performance

You will also be keen to find out how your skills can apply to other areas of the business to look to add value into each and every department. Succesful driving of this would potentially lead to a roll out of Qlikview across site.
Along with this you will be looked upon to develop and maintain a consistent process, with the support of the business managers, for reviewing and taking action on actual margin analysis utilising a cross-functional team.



Skills & Experience

The role requires an analyst who ideally has knowledge and understanding of Qlikview, with the skill to spot key trends, recommend action and show leadership in improvement projects.

Great interpersonal skills with colleagues across all levels is a must as after spotting a trend or an issue you'll need to be able to communicate and sell your solution to the relevant stakeholders.

You will have strong finance and business acumen with excellent IT skills.


About Us

Greencore Group plc is a leading convenience food business with an annual turnover in excess of £1.2 billion. Operating 15 high-quality convenience food manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom and a further 7 in the United States, we employ more than 11,000 people providing a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail and food service customers in the UK, the US and Ireland.

Greencore Food to Go is the UK's leading sandwich manufacturer. It also produces prepared salads and sushi out of its five state-of-the-art facilities in Manton Wood, Nottinghamshire; Northampton, Bow and Park Royal in London; Crosby in Merseyside as well as Spalding in Lincolnshire. Greencore produces around 400 million sandwiches each year and supplies food to go products to the majority of the UK's retailers.

Greencore Northampton are undergoing unprecidented growth with £30 Million worth of investment announced for our site. The end result of this is that we're doubling capacity in one of our three factories and are looking at building a fourth in the next few years! Greencore always look to put people at the core, and at Northampton our Learning and Development team have delivered well over 20,000 hours of training in the past year alone. We offer a clear and well defined career path and will actively look at how we can enable our colleagues to push themselves forward.