Growth Associate (Dammam)
Sary, Saudi Arabia

We are looking for a Growth Specialist to join us in reinventing wholesale!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyze factors that impact demand for Sary products (i.e., category trends / trade promotions / high-reaching products / seasonality / retail consumption / distribution channels).
• In partnership with the Sales team, use promotion event post-audit data to analyze the effectiveness of trade promotions. Use the resulting insight to forecast the impact of future promotion events. Advice management regarding which promotion vehicles would be most effective under which circumstances.
• Compare forecasts to financial budgets. Explain variances, note uncertainty and highlight risk areas.
• Analyze market response to new products and use this to develop forecasts for new items not yet introduced.
• Act as a Business guide for all planning and ensuring supply responsibilities.
• Present demand and production plans to the cross functional team. Explain business assumptions behind the plans and methods used to quantify each event.
• Participate in the development of integrated budgets; responsible for the alignment of demand plans.
• Develop and lead short term projects related to capacity/demand studies, cost savings initiatives, and other Ensure Supply objectives.
• Craft and maintain reporting to all levels of the organization that summarizes inventory levels, capacity, service level, sales and all related issues that support these key performance indicators.

Requirements

• BSc/BA in marketing, communications or equivalent
• Relevant work experience in consumer goods Sales/Marketing, Demand/Supply Analytics desirable.
• Relevant work experience in Startups
• Strong analytical aptitude with a shown ability to analyze/interpret data and build quantitative models of business problems.
• Excellent oral and written skills, organizational and time-management abilities, effective interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with personnel at all organizational levels.
• Excellent creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing solutions to complex problems that may not have one clear answer.
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft.

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