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American Sugar Refining, Inc. · 1 day ago

Commercial Insights Analyst

West Palm Beach, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

1+ years exp

American Sugar Refining, Inc. is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar. The Commercial Insights Analyst will lead projects that provide strategic insights and data-driven recommendations to optimize commercial strategies and drive business growth by collaborating with cross-functional teams.

AgricultureFood and Beverage

Responsibilities

Build predictive models and forecasts to support market demand views and individual product and customer performance

Lead research to inform modeling assumptions, by leveraging a variety of databases and sources, synthesizing different pieces of information

Discern trends, patterns and anomalies to support data and resource-driven forecasting assumptions that translate into forward-looking models

Analyze large datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and insights that drive commercial strategies

Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics

Support in the process of customer and strategic item situation assessment, including an up-to-date understanding of customer category trends, to ensure that category risks & opportunities are highlighted

Conduct market research to identify industry trends, customer behaviors, and competitive dynamics

Provide insights into market opportunities and risks to support strategic planning

Collaborate with sales, marketing, and finance teams to provide data-driven recommendations that improve revenue growth and profitability

Contribute to pricing, product, and promotional strategies with robust analysis and forecasting

Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and present findings to senior stakeholders

Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains across commercial operations

Lead the Marketing SG&A monthly budget tracking and accrual process including periodic spend forecasting and variance analyses

Support sales channel result reporting and result explanation material development both on an on-going basis and for key internal meetings

Qualification

Financial modelingData analysisMarket researchMicrosoft ExcelData visualizationCommunication skillsRPythonProactiveDetail-oriented

Required

Undergraduate Degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Physics or other related field of study

Excellent written, and verbal communication and presentation skills – able to work across various teams and distill complex ideas

Self-reliant, resilient, detail-oriented, and proactive with a high motivation to make things happen and to comprehensively research ideas

Proven success in utilizing analytics to provide strategic recommendations and drive concrete action

Results-oriented with a positive “can-do” attitude and a strong desire to get things done

Thrive in a fast-paced and flexible environment with the ability to deal with ambiguity

Advanced Microsoft Excel (ex. multi-sheet modeling, Goal-seek functionality, sensitivity tables, and array functions) and other modeling platform skills, knowledge of data visualization tools such as Power BI

Ability to continuously learn and develop both in terms of how to improve work product but also in platform knowledge (both internal & external)

Preferred

1-3 years of professional experience in a role or function that required financial and forecasting model building, ad-hoc analyses, and where work streams are varied, corporate strategy, consulting or internal consulting experience preferred

Experience with scripting languages such R / Python