Description:
Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.
What will you work on? To identify and communicate trends, inefficiencies and opportunities to Management, Sales Marketing with the aim to actively deliver continuous improvement that supports the business in accomplishing its KPI’s.
How will you create impact?
- To be the principal interface between Sales, Marketing, Supply/ Demand Planning and Order Processing teams, dealing with any situations that arise.
- Proactively analyze and interpret various data sets to identify new opportunities and insights to drive performance.
- To ensure the timely preparation of information for internal external meetings or previews.
Principal Tasks
- Sales Marketing Functions
- Engaging with Sales Marketing teams to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics and KPIs, to deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers.
- Create best-practice reports, dashboards, graphs, and visualizations based on critical metrics (KPIs) to fit departmental needs.
- To ensure that the teams are aware of relevant stock, marketing, or promotional opportunities as relevant to the business.
- Compile and maintain documentation and ad hoc account procedures e.g., Season’s listings.
- Stock Control Samples
- To provide support and enable communication between Supply Planning, Order Processing, and the Sales Team.
- To monitor the feasibility of forecasts, particularly during Global, EU UK allocations, through the development of automated processes, detailed Retailer analysis and demand management.
- Analyzing sales out and stock incoming data to assist with planned intakes processes.
- Design business processes to improve productivity e.g., stock management.
- Forecasting Future Planning
- To take a primary role in Consensus (monthly forecast meeting), including but not limited to: Actionable notation, reviewing forecast accuracy, tracking trends and changes over time, data cleansing and influencing decision making.
- Take the lead on new data procedures and tools, and where necessary provide training for users.
- Meetings
- Preparation for meetings as required:
- Analysing patterns and trends within data to ‘tell a story’ .
- Prepare reports/ presentations for internal and external audiences using business analytics reporting tools.
- Internal – Sales Marketing, Weekly Supply Reviews, Excess Obsolete, Shipped Open etc.
- Benchmarking and Improvements
- Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for improvement.
What are your skills and experience?
- Educated minimum to A’ Level standard.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role (FMCG or Toy industry preferred).
- Additional Analytical, Project Management or Mathematical qualifications an asset.
- Proven analytical skills; including data interpretation, evaluation, analysis, and visualizations.
- Customer driven approach to working within a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to talk and present to a range of audiences, sometimes acting as a “translator” between relevant parties.
- Proficiency in MS Office software (with advanced expertise in Excel a requirement), SAP, Power BI, Sales Force (or similar CRM tool) beneficial.
- Ability to work accurately and with high attention to detail, even under pressure, on multiple projects within the timeframe.
- Ability to create and maintain business presentations, Excel documents and data sources.