Commercial Analyst at Berger Paints Nigeria Plc

Job Summary

• The Commercial Analyst supports revenue growth and cost optimisation through CBA analysis, product costing, margin/profitability insights, commercial spend tracking, promo evaluation, and competitive analysis.

Responsibilities

• Profitability analysis: Evaluate and report on product profitability, share recommendations for decision making
• Cost-benefit analysis: Prepare a CBA for commercial activities to aid decision making.
• Competitive analysis: Source, analyse and report on market data, trends and competitor activity
• Revenue growth: Implement VPM (Volume price mix) analysis, revenue growth initiatives to drive revenue optimisation. Monitor and report on revenue/margin trends
• Promotion evaluation: Carry out pre- and post-promo evaluation, report on data analysed, insights from the commercial team and promo visits
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with production, supply chain, commercial, finance and the rest of the business for good business understanding to aid analysis and recommendations
• Trade visits: Routinely go on trade visits, get insights on customers, consumers, products, competition and other relevant information to aid decision making
• Cost optimisation: Drive implementation of cost optimisation programs in the commercial function
• Budget management: Prepare commercial annual plan, monitor and routinely report on spend vs budget, ensure spend within budget

Qualifications

• BSc Accounting, Finance.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in the Manufacturing Industry
• ACA, ACCA, CFA part qualified