NWE Sales Strategy & Planning Expert

Role Overview

The NWE Sales Strategy & Planning Expert partners with Sales Leaders, peers, and cross-functional teams to develop data-driven models that enable and support sales planning activities throughout the year. The role is embedded within the NWE Sales Strategy and Planning team and is key for sales and sales managers’ decision making on the business front.

What You Will Do

Leads complex data and business analyses to develop business plans, identifies recommendations and insights, and works independently to construct highly complex statistical and financial models to forecast business performance.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires strong business acumen, technical knowledge, and excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills. The ideal candidate will have 6-10 years of work experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or related functional areas and an advanced university degree (e.g., MBA) or demonstrable equivalent.

Requirements

• Typically 6-10 years work experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or related functional area
• Advanced university degree (e.g., MBA) or demonstrable equivalent
• Extensive knowledge of research methodology for key business issues
• Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills
• Ability to leverage new analytical techniques to develop creative approaches to business analysis
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of how to analyze business problems using Excel, Access, statistical analysis, and financial modeling
• Strong business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Very strong project management skills, including leading large, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting
• Developed leadership skills, including team-building, conflict resolution, and management
• Ability to identify emerging trends from market and industry data

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing
• Personal & Professional Development
• Unconditional Inclusion