Trade Analyst (Fixed Term)

Tesco Ireland are currently seeking to appoint a Trade Analyst. The Trade Analyst is responsible for the development of sales budgets, ROI sales forecast and reporting of ongoing sales performance. The role works with our support team in Bengaluru to ensure we have accurate and up to date reporting and forecasts. The role will also work with stakeholders across the Finance, Customer, Channel and Product to ensure the forecast is understood and any business changes incorporated as required.

• With the help of a good understanding of the macro-economic forces and its impact on retail grocery sector help shape the forward thinking of trade in the organisation.
• Taking into consideration impacts/changes due to current internal and external trends, updated business plans, trade driving initiatives and competitive/market dynamics, provide periodic/weekly updates on our annual forecast,
• Engagement with external agencies to understand performance context. Including researching long term macro-economic trends and understand how they affect Tesco and the wider grocery market.
• Ensuring we have accurate and well understood annual forecasts for the business to support our Budget and Long-term plan cycles
• Working with the business and our support team to understand drivers of performance and incorporating the impacts for future forecasts.
• Clear communication of the forecast and trade performance by overseeing the reporting and commentary as well as through weekly leadership trade meetings.
• Working with stakeholders across the entire ROI business to ensure consistency and alignment of forecast and performance reporting through the lens of Products and channels
• Providing accurate reports on seasonal activity to support the customer team to improve performance
• Group forecasting projects (one Forecast roll out) (Local Lead)
• The Ad-hoc analysis to understand the implications of various business decisions on trade such as customer investments /events / promotions.
• Writing and presenting of exec level papers and presentations

• Strong numerical and analytical expertise – production, analysis and representation of data to facilitate business decision making
• Significant Business Partner experience
• Very strong communication and persuasion skills
• Proven track record of working to agreed deadlines, multitasking and attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) – Excel manipulation and working with large data volumes key
• Proactive with the ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a high performing team
• Strong understanding of retail market
• Drafting / Reviewing financial business cases
• Accounting qualification preferred but not essential

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Scheme*
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
• Annual leave starting at 21 days
• Save As You Earn Scheme*

*Rules of the scheme apply

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.

Our core purpose is ‘Serving Irelands” shoppers a little better every day’.

Our business was built with a simple mission – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them.

We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.

We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package and significant career development opportunities.

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.