DESCRIPTIONThe Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of Advertising and e-Commerce and offers advertisers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon.in. These solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more.As a recognized and experienced expert in this fast-growing business, you will take responsibility for a portfolio of leading Consumer companies as an ecommerce marketing consultant. You will advise your customers from the initial contact to the long-term development of a partnership. In doing so, you will act on the same level as senior decision-makers on the customer side and define holistic marketing strategies, leveraging all of Amazon’s innovative advertising solutions. Our goal is to establish and expand long-term business relations, and drive sustainable success for our advertiser customers.To achieve that, you will completely own the advertising revenue of your portfolio and lead the engagement with your customers, supported by a cross-functional team of account managers, program managers, analysts and designers. By managing your sales pipeline independently, gaining a deep understanding of the needs of your brands and the ecosystem, and developing convincing solutions you will ensure the achievement of your short and long-term objectives.If you are excited to work in the fast-paced and rapidly evolving e-commerce marketing space, have a consultative selling style and yield from the Fashion/FMCG/Durable/marketing/media/Sales & Key account management/consulting world, please applyThis position is based at the Amazon India office in Bengaluru/Mumbai, with 20-30% travel as requiredKey job responsibilities• Analyze data, trends, performance and leverage your understanding of marketing and Amazon's advertising solutions to create holistic marketing strategies for brands by working with senior decision-makers on the customer side.• Act as the advertisers’ advocate to evangelize for their success working with Amazon India, by partnering with product, account management, support, and global technology teams to drive advertiser success on Amazon’s advertising platform.• Establish and build strong, profitable, long-term relationships with strategic advertisers. Contribute to the overall growth and profit of Amazon India’s business by expanding our partner ecosystem.• Serve as a key member of advertising business development team, helping to drive overall Amazon Advertising strategy and business growth.• Build scale into the business development function by collaborating with internal stakeholders (vendor managers, seller sales and account teams) to develop joint business plans and upsell opportunities with coherent messaging/positioning for vendors/sellers/partners.• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to increasing adoption customers.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Mumbai, MH, INDBASIC QUALIFICATIONS1) 1-2 years of experience in sales. 2) Strong communication skills (written and verbal). 3) MBA or other related Master's degree 4) Confidence in the analysis of number-based reports and experience in MS Office (esp. Excel). 5) An exceptional eye for detail, ability to solve problems and given the fast-paced nature of our division, the aptitude to multi task. 6) An organized approach and a real team player who is willing to roll up sleeves.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS1) Professional experience with online advertising 2) Experience in e-commerce, retail or advertising 3) Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations 4) Demonstrated high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

Business Consultant - Sales Strategy & Intelligence

General Mills, Powai, Mumbai, Any

Position Title Business Consultant Function/Group Sales Strategy & Intelligence Location Mumbai, India Shift Timing 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM Role Reports to Capabilities Lead Remote/Hybrid/in-Office Hybrid ABOUT GENERAL MILLS We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Haagen-Dazs, we have been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell. How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate. us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.comGeneral Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people. With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC), Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI), Global Shared Services (GSS), Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS). For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow. JOB OVERVIEW Function Overview GIC Sales Strategy & Intelligence team partners with our global General Mills sales teams in providing them with analytical horsepower and enable business continuity so they can focus on core activities - Selling, driving distribution gains and optimizing merchandising plans to deliver sales volume targets. We enable customer, pricing & promotion strategies across the global markets through our focused capabilities of Sales Execution, Trade & Strategic Revenue Management and Category Management. Teams within function are aligned to the above focused capabilities for each of our markets and each team member specializes in domains of Advanced Analytics, Visual Insights & Planogramming. We are a family of Data analysts, Business analysts and Business Consultants with diverse opinions, cultures and passions and are united by our desire to serve the world by making food people love. We apply the principles of analytics to everything we do, constantly experimenting to discover new ways to add value to our stakeholders, customers and team members. Link Purpose of the role The GIC Sales Canada Capabilities team is looking for someone with a learning mindset who is passionate about Revenue Management/Pricing and energized by working at the intersection of Sales, Finance, Data and Analytics, Brand, CMI and Capabilities. You will be hands on, action oriented, and accountable as we continue to build a best-in-class Global Revenue Management capability that helps drive the performance of General Mills now and into the future.In this role, you will support the Market Strategy & Revenue Management team within the Canada business by providing them with SRM support. You will be providing analytic rigor across all 5 levers of SRM (Price, Trade, Price Pack Architecture, Mix, and Terms) to drive top line and/or bottom-line results for GMCC.Strong candidates for this role will demonstrate exceptional prioritization and communication skills (written & verbal), analytic acumen (analysis and measurement) as well as experience/passion for learning and development.The team member will build a seamless rapport with the point of contact overseas, address and initiate business requests, establish solutions through sophisticated reporting/ tool building and superior presentations/visuals; the work completed will be sent with an actionable analysis that showcases depth & breadth of business acumen.The team member must have a strong grasp of alternatives and use their thought leadership to make calculated decisions to influence how projects and capabilities shape up - this includes leveraging well-conceived proof of concepts. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Advance SRM Analytics & Capabilities Conduct analysis, and provide insights, leveraging existing and new tools to surface insights, draw conclusions, make recommendations, and influence business partners to consensus and action. Leverage and embed SRM Tools, when available Provide support and/or act as subject matter expertise on all 5 levers of SRM: Price, Trade, Price Pack Architecture, Mix, and Terms Collaborate across boundaries to learn and implement best-in-class SRM techniques, pre-existing solutions, tools, platforms etc. Identify opportunities to utilize in-house forecasting models to support market initiatives, analyze options, measure, and track results Accelerate engagement with the business by building a brand for self/process and displaying strong stakeholder management skills Comprehend the business strategy, fluidly connect the dots between various performance indices and find synergies in process and lead execution Partner with business/ SRM experts to eliminate market knowledge gaps & drive success through cross-team collaboration Champion SRM via outstanding support; becoming a valued counsel to the business Stakeholder Management Demonstrate effective stakeholder management to deliver high level of customer satisfaction via tangible outputs. Agility towards stakeholder engagement and management in the event of Organization Change or Repurposed goals. Coherence in ideas and communication on project goals, planning, execution, risk management, iterations, and success metrics Dynamic and expedited generation of value - Identify business prospects to discover significant business worth, persuade various stakeholders to recognize the worth, and successfully get support. Aligning with Senior Leadership to drive the vision by working through multiple stakeholders, both internal and external Operational & Executional Excellence Maintain highest level of timeliness and accuracy in all service delivery. Effective stakeholder management to deliver high level of customer satisfaction. Enable standardization across different processes/markets within and across verticals. Contribute towards increasing the process/capability maturity (PEM & LDT model) 100% compliance to Business Continuity Plan (BCP) & Crisis Management readiness Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Executional Excellence, and Project Management Drive and comply with CI mindset by identifying opportunities to automate, eliminate, standardize, outsource. Collaborate across boundaries in real time to learn and implement best-in-class techniques, pre-existing solutions, tools, platforms etc. Maintain a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team - cross functional lens and overseas partnership included. Design trainings based on needs of the team around key concepts, skills and applications and drive execution Participate actively in organizational initiatives and represent the function MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education - Full Time Bachelors from an accredited university (Mandatory). Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills. Attention to detail, ability to complete given tasks with accuracy Self-motivated and detail oriented with the ability to perform well in a fast-paced & changing environment Multitasking ability - learn and implement a host of tools/databases and software's/platforms Design, execute and market Proof of Concept. Strong Story telling skills with Selling & Influential Communication Intermediate/ High proficiency in Microsoft applications (Excel & PowerPoint) Basic/Intermediate with data manipulation and visualization packages (i.e. Tableau, Qlik, Alteryx, Spotfire, GCP, DataPrep) PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Preferred Majors: Business Management, Statistics, Marketing, Retail, Economics 4-7 years of relevant Business Reporting, Analytics & Visualization experience in CPG (or related) industry. Experience with market data analysis tools is required (experience working with ACNielsen and IRI preferred.) Expertise in General Mills USRO Trade planning cycle & concepts Expertise in POS & Shipment data, recognizing patterns for GMI categories and/or customers. Familiarity with syndicated data sets (Nielsen/IRI/SPINS), Financial data, trade system data 4-5 yrs of Experience partnering with teams to create visualizations & models (Tableau, financial, econometrics, machine learning) Experience working with loyalty data like shopper card and/or household panel Align with Company Values - Do the right thing all the time; Play to win; Grow and Inspire; Win as a team; Act boldly move quickly Salary: . Date posted: 04/15/2024 01:18 PM

Sr. Business Analyst - Sales Strategy & Intelligence

General Mills, Powai, Mumbai, Any

Position Title Sr. Business Analyst Function/Group Sales Strategy & Intelligence Location Mumbai Shift Timing Regular Role Reports to Asst. Manager/ Manager Remote/Hybrid/in-Office Hybrid ABOUT GENERAL MILLS We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell. How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.comGeneral Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people. With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https:// www.generalmills.co.in We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow. JOB OVERVIEW Function OverviewGIC Sales Strategy & Intelligence team partners with our global General Mills sales teams in providing them with analytical horsepower and enable business continuity so they can focus on core activities - Selling, driving distribution gains and optimizing merchandising plans to deliver sales volume targets. We enable customer, pricing & promotion strategies across the global markets through our focused capabilities of Sales Execution, Trade & Strategic Revenue Management and Category Management. Teams within function are aligned to the above focused capabilities for each of our markets and each team member specializes in domains of Advanced Analytics, Visual Insights & Planogramming.We are a family of Data analysts, Business analysts and Business Consultants with diverse opinions, cultures and passions and are united by our desire to serve the world by making food people love. We apply the principles of analytics to everything we do, constantly experimenting to discover new ways to add value to our stakeholders, customers and team members.For more details about the Function please visit this Link Purpose of the role The role will be responsible to partner with the Sales, Trade Marketing & Trade Finance Teams in US.The team member will independently build a seamless rapport with the point of contact overseas, address and initiate business requests, establish solutions through sophisticated reporting/tool building and superior presentations/visuals. The work will be sent with actionable analysis that showcases depth & breadth of business acumen. Leverage syndicated data and various SRM reports to provide actionable insights & actions to drive ROI & profit for trade spending across categories & brands.The role includes trade fulfillment, enabling assortment and trade optimization strategies, competitive intelligence, recommending merchandising & pricing scenarios via various data modelling & analytical techniques either independently or through collaboration of cross-team peers. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Business Analysis & Analytics Conduct analysis, and provide insights, leveraging existing and new tools, surface insights, draw conclusions, make recommendations, and influence business partners to consensus and action Gather and analyze syndicated data (e.g., from Nielsen, IRI, consumers, and/or customers) in order to identify opportunities to drive RNS & Profitability growth across OUs & Categories Master and own the monthly deliverables in the form of reports & presentations and send quality output in a timely manner with upgrades Design superlative templates, Develop and execute dashboards/ tools in a turn-key scalable format Work alongside of peers and inculcate best practices and elevate the team's ability to tackle business questions with value adds Demonstrate an analytical bend of mind in all tasks/projects/collaborations Distill actionable insights from the data to offer client ready business recommendations by identifying meaningful customer indicators & trends Actively builds & proliferates trade & pricing knowledge & principles Confidently present category and trade dynamics to stakeholders and rationalize techniques and model fit Showcase thought leadership; look for ways to integrate better business solutions Anticipate customer needs based on business trends and previous projects Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Executional Excellence, and Project Management Ensure TAT is upheld via awareness on process requirements, meeting benchmark time estimates and through articulate expectation settings with the stakeholder Guarantee data quality and accuracy through thorough comprehension of request, accurate application of tools/platforms with an eye for detail and a robust data & logic check Eliminate Waste, Contribute to the Functional Productivity Goals CI Mindset: develop and drive a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team Project Management: Juggle multiple projects incld. long range projects and own project scoping, to trouble shooting, collaborating, to timely communication/iterations with peers and stakeholders to high impact completion and presentation Mentoring & Training new hires and interns to excel in their roles and outperform expectation Building Stakeholder Relationships Brand themselves as a SME on multiple fronts Understand client needs/ customer request and see the larger picture to enable holistic solutions Ability to recommend and influence changes to process/procedures Explore business development opportunities and transform into tangible results Ability to communicate challenges in an assertive manner Work through people and processes to accomplish superlative results Articulate and comprehensive presentations to the audience MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education - Full time graduation from an accredited university Analytics & Visualization experience in CPG (or related) industry- 3 to 4 years Experience with syndicated market data (Nielsen, IRI) Advanced expertise in MS Excel (excludes VBA), Tableau / power BI proficiency- good to have Strong command over oral and written English PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Post Graduate in Business Management, Statistics, Marketing, Retail Analytics & Visualization experience in CPG (or related) industry- 4 to 6 years Experience in Modern Trade, Revenue Management verticals of CPG Experience working with consultancies managing CPG/ retail clients Salary: . Date posted: 04/16/2024 01:18 PM