Introduction
To support the Trade Insights & Analytics team in delivering accurate, timely and commercially relevant reporting and analysis across Foods promotional performance and trade activity. This role plays a key part in the weekly and monthly trade reporting cycle, ensuring high quality data and reporting outputs are delivered to support category trade reviews, post-promotional reviews (PIRs), commercial analysis and executive decision-making. The analyst will support the team by consolidating and preparing data for effective analysis, identifying key performance signals and contributing toward meaningful commercial insights and recommendations. The successful candidate will be highly analytical, detail-oriented and commercially curious, with strong ambition to grow within trade analytics, promotional effectiveness analysis and commercial insight generation.
Job Description
Weekly & Monthly Trade Reporting
Own and deliver accurate and timely weekly and monthly reporting outputs across Foods trade and promotional performance
Pull, validate and consolidate reporting from multiple data sources within strict timelines
Ensure consistency, accuracy and completeness of reporting templates and outputs before business distribution
Support the preparation of executive-ready reporting packs used in weekly trade and leadership reviews
Identify anomalies, inconsistencies and material performance shifts across categories and promotional activity
Promotional Reporting & Effectiveness Analysis
Support analysis of promotional and trade performance across Foods categories
Assist in evaluating promotional effectiveness, including sales uplift, volume growth, customer response and margin impact
Consolidate and prepare data inputs required for promotional analysis and post-promotional reviews (PIRs)
Support tracking of promotional trends, trade performance and category movements across the business
Assist with ad hoc promotional and trade investigations where required
Data Preparation & Commercial Analysis Support
Prepare and structure data for deeper commercial analysis, viability work and strategic trade reviews
Support the team in identifying key trade signals, risks and opportunities emerging from weekly performance
Contribute toward cross-category analysis and identification of emerging business trends
Assist in translating reporting outputs into concise and actionable business insights
Support continuous improvement in reporting quality, usability and analytical value
Reporting Optimisation & Automation
Drive continuous improvement in reporting processes, accuracy and efficiency
Support automation and simplification initiatives within reporting and analytics workflows
Assist in leveraging AI and analytical tools to improve reporting quality, insight generation and productivity
Maintain strong governance and version control across reporting files and outputs
Stakeholder Engagement
Engage effectively with internal stakeholders across Commercial, Trade and Analytics teams
Support category and trade teams with reporting-related queries and interpretation of outputs
Build collaborative working relationships across cross-functional teams
Communicate findings clearly and confidently in both written and verbal format
Minimum requirements
Relevant commercial degree or diploma (BCom, BBusSci, B Econ or equivalent)
3 - 5 years' experience in analytics, reporting or commercial support roles
Retail/FMCG experience advantageous
Strong commercial curiosity and interest in promotional performance and trade analytics
Advanced Excel capability essential
Experience with QlikView/QlikSense, Power BI or similar analytical tools advantageous
Strong numerical and analytical capability
High attention to detail and ability to work accurately under pressure
Ability to manage tight deadlines in a fast-paced reporting environment
Self-starter with strong ownership mindset and ambition to grow
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations
Collaborative team player with a proactive and solutions-oriented mindset
Thrives in a fast-paced commercial environment
highly dependable and delivery-focused
Enjoys solving problems and identifying patterns in data
Has ambition to grow from reporting execution into commercial analytics and strategic insight generation
Brings energy, curiosity and accountability to the team
Deadline:22nd May,2026