Strategy Analyst at Mondelez International

Together with analytics team leaders you will support our business with excellent data models to uncover trends that can drive long-term business results.

How you will contribute

You will

• Work in close partnership with the business leadership team to execute the analytics agenda
• Identify and incubate best-in-class external partners to drive delivery on strategic projects
• Develop custom models/algorithms to uncover signals/patterns and trends to drive long-term business performance
• Execute the business analytics program agenda using a methodical approach that conveys to stakeholders what business analytics will deliver

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Using data analysis to make recommendations to senior leaders
• Technical experience in roles in best-in-class analytics practices
• Experience deploying new analytical approaches in a complex and highly matrixed organization
• Savvy in usage of the analytics techniques to create business impacts

More about this role

Mondelēz AMEA now operates as a Business Unit (BU-led) model organization to enable a more agile and consumer-centric strategy. Sub-Sahara Africa is one of the key Business Units managing businesses on categories such as Chocolates, Biscuits, Gum & Candy, Beverages & Meals. The Business Units lead the development and implementation of strategies for the growth of the total business, which includes managing the P&L.

The company’s strategic imperative is to deliver strong topline and bottom-line growth. SSA’s mission as a business unit, is to drive volume-driven and dollar profitable growth. Among the key strategic initiatives are to improve Marketing Effectiveness and drive Marketing Return On Investment (ROI) as well as optimize category/brand portfolio (Price Pack Architecture), ultimately leading to sustainable growth.

The SSA Strategy Analyst is part of the SSA Strategy Team which also includes Revenue Management.

The key purpose of this position is to lead a SSA Growth Analytics sub-team who will provide Business Analytics and Problem solving that drive agile fact-based decisions and business growth in SSA. Specifically, this position is expected to establish, strengthen and advance Business Strategy, address Key Business Questions, Investment decisions, partner with Commercial Sales and Marketing and support Revenue Management and our broader Sustainability agenda. This position requires the right balance of analytics skills and business acumen and strong ability to communicate and partner with other functions, along with strong leadership qualities.

This role will require close collaboration with other functions: Category Insights, Shopper Insights Managers, Marketing, Media, Strategy, Finance, Category Planning & Activation (Sales) and Customer Service & Logistics, Manufacturing across categories in SSA.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Business Strategy and Insights

• Lead research and develop insights, both quantitative and qualitative, analyse data to develop an understanding of the business environment
• Package the insights in charts / reports / presentations and other outputs to communicate findings to key stakeholders
• Identify key business opportunities within the BU, articulate the business case and develop relevant solutions to solve complex problems across the BU
• Assist Leadership Team (LT) in preparation of key stakeholder meetings by providing relevant information and preparing presentations

Strategic Planning

• Develop the long term plan that will be implemented by reviewing and establishing strategic priorities and converts them to quantitative and actionable plans
• Use analytics for benchmarking initial results to measure long-term market trends which aid in making financial and resource decisions
• Ensure that current plans provide focus, improves operations, increases collaboration and sets priorities
• Align the long term roadmap with commercial programs from Marketing and Sales
• Ensure that the long term ambitions are on track through managing project deliverables and business KPIs

Competitive assessment

• Track performance of current and emerging competitors and provide insights into their strategy, marketing, sales, investment, and choices and their plans across SSA
• Understand Competitor SWOT in the context of our current plan and future plan
• Enable strategic dialogue on competitors that may impact our business

Strategic projects and questions

• Work on big and small strategic questions for the Business Unit that either develop / enable the long term roadmap, mitigate risks for the business
• Ensure collaboration on strategic projects with key business leaders and enable fast decision making

Pricing Analytics

• Collaborate with Revenue Management Lead in multiple Pricing Research or Price Pack Architecture Analyses based on identified priorities and needs in the SSA BU
• Utilize core PPA tools such as Mekko Charts, Threshold and Quartile analyses and run Pricing Simulators to flesh out and measure key PPA opportunities in SSA
• Provide regular PPA training support, communicate the capability resources available from Global CoE (e-learning modules etc.) to BU stakeholders

Communication

• Communicate all learning and insights in a compelling way to drive action: Ensure presentations and reports are clear, timely and inspiring as well as actionable. Influence BU Teams. Build management confidence in recommended actions with appropriate interpretation and integration of key concepts.

Workshop & Activation:

Set up detailed agenda, invite key stakeholders, arrange other logistics

related to a debrief workshop to share and align on the learnings, recommendations which should be considered for short term (Annual Business Plans) and long term (Strategic 3-year Plans).

This position requires a proactive, mature and self-reliant person who can always take the initiative and influence within a broad team environment.  Specific skills also include: Superior written and verbal communication skills.  A strong story-teller, a lucid and structured communicator, who makes their point clearly and persuasively.

• Must be able to handle numerous projects at one time and meet fast turnaround deadlines
• Advanced organizational skills
• A good balance between using empirical data and common sense and “gut feel”
• Prior knowledge and experience of the Mondelēz International organization, is preferred but not a requirement.
• Persuasive and stimulating ‘packaging’ and presentation of all materials is a significant part of the job, as is explaining/arguing/defending/developing the thinking in all meetings and communication scenarios.
• Balancing the ability to deliver with urgency with the ability of keeping momentum due to the reality that building capabilities is more of a marathon than a sprint
• Take, understand and establish project briefs, communicating and presenting to all parties to ensure the approach is supported, project managed, and excellence is achieved
• Become a respected internal source of knowledge on best practices

Education / Certifications:

Business Strategy and Insights

• Lead research and develop insights, both quantitative and qualitative, analyse data to develop an understanding of the business environment
• Package the insights in charts / reports / presentations and other outputs to communicate findings to key stakeholders
• Identify key business opportunities within the BU, articulate the business case and develop relevant solutions to solve complex problems across the BU
• Assist Leadership Team (LT) in preparation of key stakeholder meetings by providing relevant information and preparing presentations

Strategic Planning

• Develop the long term plan that will be implemented by reviewing and establishing strategic priorities and converts them to quantitative and actionable plans
• Use analytics for benchmarking initial results to measure long-term market trends which aid in making financial and resource decisions
• Ensure that current plans provide focus, improves operations, increases collaboration and sets priorities
• Align the long term roadmap with commercial programs from Marketing and Sales
• Ensure that the long term ambitions are on track through managing project deliverables and business KPIs

Competitive assessment

• Track performance of current and emerging competitors and provide insights into their strategy, marketing, sales, investment, and choices and their plans across SSA
• Understand Competitor SWOT in the context of our current plan and future plan
• Enable strategic dialogue on competitors that may impact our business

Strategic projects and questions

• Work on big and small strategic questions for the Business Unit that either develop / enable the long term roadmap, mitigate risks for the business
• Ensure collaboration on strategic projects with key business leaders and enable fast decision making

Pricing Analytics

• Collaborate with Revenue Management Lead in multiple Pricing Research or Price Pack Architecture Analyses based on identified priorities and needs in the SSA BU
• Utilize core PPA tools such as Mekko Charts, Threshold and Quartile analyses and run Pricing Simulators to flesh out and measure key PPA opportunities in SSA
• Provide regular PPA training support, communicate the capability resources available from Global CoE (e-learning modules etc.) to BU stakeholders

Communication

• Communicate all learning and insights in a compelling way to drive action: Ensure presentations and reports are clear, timely and inspiring as well as actionable. Influence BU Teams. Build management confidence in recommended actions with appropriate interpretation and integration of key concepts.

Workshop & Activation:

Set up detailed agenda, invite key stakeholders, arrange other logistics

related to a debrief workshop to share and align on the learnings, recommendations which should be considered for short term (Annual Business Plans) and long term (Strategic 3-year Plans).

This position requires a proactive, mature and self-reliant person who can always take the initiative and influence within a broad team environment.  Specific skills also include: Superior written and verbal communication skills.  A strong story-teller, a lucid and structured communicator, who makes their point clearly and persuasively.

• Must be able to handle numerous projects at one time and meet fast turnaround deadlines
• Advanced organizational skills
• A good balance between using empirical data and common sense and “gut feel”
• Prior knowledge and experience of the Mondelēz International organization, is preferred but not a requirement.
• Persuasive and stimulating ‘packaging’ and presentation of all materials is a significant part of the job, as is explaining/arguing/defending/developing the thinking in all meetings and communication scenarios.
• Balancing the ability to deliver with urgency with the ability of keeping momentum due to the reality that building capabilities is more of a marathon than a sprint
• Take, understand and establish project briefs, communicating and presenting to all parties to ensure the approach is supported, project managed, and excellence is achieved
• Become a respected internal source of knowledge on best practices

Job specific requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (Social Science, Business Administration, Marketing, Statistics, Economics)
• Min 5 years working experience in marketing research, Advanced Analytics preferably at an CPG or a FMCG company and 5 years in forecasting/business planning in increasing responsibility positions
• High analytical skills and wisdom/judgement to evaluate and improve delivery
• Good commercial acumen
• Able to synthesize data from different sources into a well-structured story with clear implications
• Ability to solve ambiguous, multifaceted, cross functional  problems
• Good interpersonal, intercultural and communication / influence skills
• Self-starter, comfortable working remotely and strongly influence & work with others in multiple locations