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Business Analyst

Employer
Online Resourcing
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Salary
c£40,000 +bonus & Comprehensive benefits
Closing date
28 Jul 2016

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Retail Management, Sales

Job Details

Bring your business analysis skills, attention to detail and inquisitiveness to this key role.

Make it all Mean More at Mars.  

 As Business Analyst reporting to our Sales and Operations Planning Manager, your key responsibility will be to support the business in delivering its sales targets by providing reporting and insights into sales and forecasts.  You’ll also play a key part in ensuring that the sales reporting tools are used appropriately across the business to drive continuous improvement. Calculating commission payments for all demand areas, you’ll provide insights to the business across finance, sales, business effectiveness and the management team.  A critical part of this broad role will involve presenting data to various audiences, including the senior leadership team, as insights into business performance. Finally, you will play an integral role with Mars Drinks’s CRM system, Salesforce, working to build insights through running relevant analytics, dashboading and data interrogation.

Key accountabilities for the Business Analyst role include:

  • close interaction with sales teams to identify and understand trends
  • daily reporting
  • dashboarding and data interrogation. 

Ideally educated to degree level in a scientific or business discipline, you already have proven track record in business analysis, where you’ve developed the clear ability to turn data into insight.  Any experience in CRM/sales force analytics would be a real asset.  A natural problem solver with an inquisitive mind, always asking WHY?, you have the business acumen able to spot trends and issues, underpinned by strong forecasting skills.  Comfortable around higher management and good at developing peer relationships, you’re highly driven and able to challenge.  As a Business Analyst you can also offer:

  • a good understanding of the structure of the demand business and the areas of interaction
  • excellent attention to detail
  • an inquisitive mind
  • bags of potential.

Mars Drinks has a proud history. We’ve been in the business of satisfying workplaces and people at work with a wide variety of great tasting drinks for more than 40 years.  We have some impressive brands of our own, like ALTERRA Coffee Roasters, THE BRIGHT TEA CO. and GALAXY hot chocolate, along with favourite brands like NESCAFE, JACOBS and LIPTON.

This is a great opportunity with one of the world’s great consumer businesses.  So, if we’ve just described you and your aspirations, to open up a dialogue click to apply today.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Business Analyst Ref: OLR11215

Company

Online Resourcing is a recruitment business which specialises in harnessing the power and flexibility of the Internet to recruit high quality staff for a wide spectrum of clients throughout the UK and Ireland. Our clients range from SME’s to multi-national household name brands. Some of our clients include: Nestle, St Ives, Leeds City Council, Capita, Trinity Mirror, Jarvis, Npower and many more. We provide a comprehensive range of online recruitment solutions that are tailored towards our clients’ individual requirements.

Our services are formed around our extensive understanding of the online recruitment marketplace and supported by our deep experience as recruiters in all sectors. Services include fixed online recruitment packages as an alternative to using recruitment agencies, online recruitment advertising solutions and applicant management support services. We are a rapidly expanding business and work in an exciting, innovative and entrepreneurial environment. If you would like further information about our online recruitment products and services, please call the Managing Director, Oliver Adderley, on 0844 8000 330.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0844 8000 330
Location
Bowcliffe Court
Bowcliffe Hall
Bramham
Leeds
LS23 6LW
GB

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