Commercial Analyst in Cheltenham

Job Title:Commercial Analyst

Contract Type:Permanent, Full-time

Salary:£30,000

Contracted hours:

40 hours per week

Working Days:Monday to Friday

Shift Pattern:8 Hour Shifts, 08:30 – 17:00

Location:Cheltenham

About Creed

Creed is a family business established in 1972 which is ambitious with its growth within the industry. We deliver a great range of multi-temperature food products, including our butchery and fresh range to caterers across the country from our bases in Cheltenham, Ilkeston & High Wycombe. It\’s a great place to be and we are proud of our role in supporting our local community. We are dedicated to creating a great place to work and have been recognised as a \”Sunday Times Top 100\” Company to work for after achieving two star status with Best Companies. Our people are committed to our values, choose their attitude and think customer. They work hard, are committed to providing a great service, have fun and develop along the way. Our employees often get involved in charity events, attend the Director breakfasts, put forward their ideas for improvement and contribute in team briefings. Our core business values are being: Commercial, Proud, Friendly and Nurturing.

Role Details

To contribute to the accuracy and robustness of supplier income and business margin forecasting. This role is critical in ensuring timely, insightful, and data-driven financial reporting that supports effective commercial decision-making.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in building forecast models using Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical skills and insight driven forecasting capability.
• Strong I.T and administration skills, numeracy, and a good level of English.
• Customer Service Focus, Excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship building, and stakeholder management skills.
• An action-oriented individual, who is solutions focused, exceptionally organised and can manage multiple priorities and deliver results on time.
• A good team player, with attention to detail and good problem-solving skills that follows processes in place and [participates in sharing ideas for improvements OR prioritises business improvement.]
• Experience working as a Commercial or Business Analyst or similar.
• Financial forecasting and insight experience.
• Ability to set up and deliver weekly reports, monthly forecasts and monthly board deck to track, monitor progress and deliver insight and recommendations relevant to commercial revenue streams.
• Strong understanding of pricing and promotional management principles and best practice within a similar industry.
• Good knowledge of techniques and approaches for improving margin and the ability to identify opportunities to achieve improvements through supplier and product mix.
• Experience preparing and managing action plans and budgets effectively including cost management.

Desirable

• Experience working within the Foodservice sector, or other similar operation.
• Experience within an analytical role within a buying, trading or sales department.
• Experience within the food, drink or wholesale sector.
• Understanding of supplier terms and structures.
• Experience of supplier relationships serviced via buying groups.

Accountabilities:

• Demonstrate a positive, customer-focused, and professional approach.
• Contribute to a diverse, inclusive, solutions-oriented, and customer service focussed culture.
• Share ideas and develop new ways of working to improve company performance and employee engagement.
• Demonstrate professionalism and deliver an awesome customer experience to both internal and external customers.
• Financial forecasting including provision of insight and recommendations to senior business decision makers
• Set up and deliver ongoing management reporting.
• Pricing and promotional management; identify opportunities to improve margin through supplier and product mix.
• Prepare and manage action plans and budgets including cost management.
• Delivering reports on time and in full, in line with board monthly cadence.
• Monthly insight deck on product switches to drive margin.
• Monthly promotional review.
• CRG reconciliation.
• To ensure the company delivers an accurate and robust supplier income and margin forecast to deliver company profit.
• To assist the Commercial Director in making effective category lead decisions based on supplier performance.
• To assist the Trading team with insight into supplier performance.
• To provide management reporting on supplier income and margin performance which equip the board to make effective business decisions.