Position Snapshot

Business Area: Nestlé UK&I 
Location: Flexible across either our York or Gatwick offices (Hybrid working – approx. 2 flexible days a week in one of our fantastic offices)

Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience + potential bonus + 12 flexible days in addition to holiday entitlement + other fantastic benefits  

This is a permanent opportunity and here at Nestlé many of our colleagues work flexibly and in many different ways, different core hours and remote working. Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you. 

Position Summary

We might be biased but we believe our Sales team here at Nestlé is pretty great and a unique place to work! As Nestlé’s multicategory sales team, we manage and develop our customer relationships across Confectionery, Coffee, Food, Dairy and Infant Nutrition. Think Nescafé, KitKat, SMA and much more! This means that in one incredible organisation, you can build a fantastic Sales career by moving across different categories as well as adding real breadth to your sales experience. You will work in partnership with customers to make a big difference in an ever evolving and fast paced environment.  

We are recruiting for a Business Analyst to join our expanding eCommerce team. This is a fantastic new role due to the growth in Online shopping. It’s certainly an exciting opportunity within our Sales team for someone to join us working across Amazon and Ocado in a key role to help us drive business growth through analytics and insight.

A day in the life of a Business Analyst – Amazon & Ocado…

You will be responsible for developing and sophisticating our operation with our key Pureplay customers (Amazon and Ocado), ensuring data and analytics are optimised to inform business decisions and to really drive growth in this key business area.

You will also:

• Analyse data and identify new trends/patterns to drive business results.
• Work closely with internal business teams to extract and mine information from our existing systems to create new analysis and expose data from our group to wider teams in intuitive ways that drives action.
• Provide feedback to streamline existing processes to help the team achieve more consistent high-quality results. 
• Develop and maintain metrics allowing more granular explanations of weekly/monthly/quarterly business report trends, as well as identify opportunities for cost savings and quality improvements.
• Produce regular reports and analysis, write systems queries to gather data, perform data mining and analysis using tools including MS Excel and Power BI to identify trends and develop forecasts.
• Participate in industry and other professional networks to ensure awareness of industry standards, trends and best practice in order to strengthen our organisational and technical knowledge.

What will make you successful?

To be successful in this role you will already have some great experience in eCommerce business analytics and be confident in leading analysis to define recommendations and presenting to key stakeholders, including senior stakeholders across our UK and Global teams. If you have previous of experience working with Amazon and Ocado this would be a real advantage. You will be able to demonstrate experience of working with cross-functional teams for implementation of project requirements and this will be strengthened by your excellent communication skills where you can demonstrate your ability to communicate complex technical problems into simple and easy to grasp ways. You might come from a commercial finance background or a commercial background (sales/category) we are flexible, what we need is somebody to demonstrate a real passion for analytics and the ambition to make a real difference in this space.

You will also:

• Have great analytical skills, with the ability to start from ambiguous problem statements, identify and access relevant data, make appropriate assumptions, perform insightful analysis and draw conclusion relevant to the business problem.
• Have outstanding attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Be experienced in data analysis coupled with advanced Microsoft Excel and Access skills.
• Be able to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Demonstrate credibility when liaising with external customer contacts, supply chain and cross category teams.
• Understand the importance of working in a customer centric way.
• Be courageous, we’re not afraid to think differently and embrace new ideas. We want you to disrupt what we do in the right way to drive great results and change. 

What you need to know

We will be considering and interviewing candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

Job advert posting date 10/03/2022
Job advert closing date 24/03/2022

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Right to work in the UK  
In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. The successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their right to work status for the UK during the recruitment process. We have assessed this role and it could be applicable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and you are unable to gain this independently, we may be able to provide sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in line with the Home office guidelines. We encourage you to review the UK Home Office guidelines ahead of submitting a job application to review whether you meet the eligibility criteria under the Skilled Worker route and understand the immigration fees that you would be responsible for when making a visa application. If you require sponsorship, please discuss this with us as part of the recruitment process.