Sales & Trade Analyst

Sales & Trade Analyst

Job Description

Location: Cape Town

Become part of the team powering household names like Andrex®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Viva®, and WypAll®.

At Arbex, everything you need is right here—innovation, growth, and the chance to leave a real mark.

Settling for just any role isn't you, and it isn't us either.

Being Unstoppable Together calls for a particular kind of person and teams who genuinely care about making a difference.

Here, you'll channel your professional expertise, talent, and drive into building and managing a portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you'll help shape the future of tissue and hygiene for billions of people worldwide.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the centre.

Job responsibilities include:

The purpose of the Sales & Trade Analyst role is:


* Management of incoming sales data from customers to provide insights to customer managers for purposes of enabling efficient promotional planning, forecasting with customers and identifying sales trends.


* Central management and team superuser of SAP Trade Promotions Management (TPM) application.

Supporting various processes including reports generation of the TPM system which you will be trained on.


* Deliver information with speed and accuracy


* Generate insights and trends in sales including internal shipment data, customer sales out data from their internal systems.

   


* Provide Overall Administrative and Insight Support to the Sales Team

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:


* Pull and analyse sales and market data from Nielsen, Rex,


* Track market share, distribution performance, category trends


* Produce regular insights and performance reports for the sales and leadership team.


* Identify growth opportunities, gaps in distribution, and emerging trends


* Present finding in clear concise format using tools such as excel, and PowerPoint.


* Stakeholders: SA Leadership team; Customer Managers & Sales Operations Team; Category Team; Demand Management; RGM team; Finance business analysts; Customers – data management

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:


* 2 - 3 years in similar role.


* Degree, Diploma or equivalent advantageous. 


* Proven experience using Nielsen and / or Rex or equivalent data platforms, supporting commercial and sales teams with data driven insights


* Ability to pull and manipulate large data sets from multiple sources – highly analytical and detail oriented


* Strong capability to analyse large data sets - sales and market data, including distribution and market share performance, category performance, and competitive analysis.


* Ability to extract, clean, and manipulate large data sets from multiple platforms


* Ability to ident...