Business Analyst

---

Job description

Job Details

Level
Experienced

Job Location
Corporate Office - Houston, TX

Position Type
Full-Time

Education Level
Bachelor's Degree

Travel Percentage
None

Position Overview

Under the general direction of the Global Marketing Director, the Business Analyst is responsible for guiding the business through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. This position will require the creation of analyses and models to support key business decisions in global marketing strategies, driven by data analysis, business acumen, creativity, and effective communication. The Business Analyst is responsible for building and creating dashboards and databases that do not currently exist in the organization as well as creating Marketing plan framework and Pricing models for global product line.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive Marketing plan framework by geography that includes: key crops, acreage-attainable area, penetration and share (including competitive analysis), define customer needs within key crops, prioritize opportunities, integrate marketing plan framework into existing business plan
• Pricing Model: build a pricing model based on customer value created by Stoller solutions incorporating: value of solutions based on data analysis, determine value share approach (if needed), assure validity of pricing model for global/core products
• Conduct analyses and synthesis on marketing programs to drive pipeline generation and customer engagement including but not limited to market size, share & growth; market opportunity & potential growth areas; pricing, packaging, and investment
• Understand key business priorities, marketing goals, customer segments, decision drivers and hypothesis, to create performance metrics
• Partner with cross-functional teams across Marketing, Sales, Ops and Finance to build robust analyses that drive business decisions
• Explore and implement the set of tools, automation, and processes needed to scale with the local business
• Develop dashboards and run regular standardized reports to answer key business questions and connect the dots around performance of marketing campaigns and individual programs
• Design, build and automate key business metrics into self-serve dashboard to tell a story
• Own the process of driving core insights from available data and create strategies to measure the success of the project work across the organization
• Partner with cross-functional teams to do customer journey analysis, TAM analysis, or ICP analysis
• Present analysis and strategies to senior management in verbal and written form
• Responsible for marketing data accuracy and integrity; create dictionaries and data governance policies as needed
• Build monthly forecasting models for multiple channels and functions, and coordinate the process of gathering and analyzing inputs into the models
• Develop ad-hoc analysis and reports as necessary
• Automate manual processes and reporting using data/reporting tools
• Identify current and future risks to initiatives, develop mitigation strategies and work proactively with leadership to mitigate issues
• Provide analysis of current and new initiatives, critical evaluation of progress against business goals, quantify business impact, define recommendations for optimization or further evaluation or investment
• Other duties as assigned

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Marketing, Business, Finance or related field required
• 3-5 Years of marketing and business intelligence analyst in Agriculture industry required
• 3 + Years working in Marketing role serving multiple geographic locations; preferably global scale
• Strong analytical and modeling skills with high proficiency in Excel, CRM and other relevant tools
• Microsoft Office suite required, Intermediate excel skills required, CRM experience required, SharePoint and Power BI highly preferred
• Experience designing and utilizing financial models; Financial Acumen including how to read P&L, credits/debits and accruals required

Global Competencies

• Customer Oriented-ability to understand, satisfy and anticipate the needs of the customers-can be internal or external; ability to work with other departments to ensure superior customer service. This also includes the ability to build long-term relationships based on trust.
• Accountability- accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient and cost-effective manner.
• People Oriented- ability to establish friendly and respectful relationships with other people or others involved within the organization. Ability to coordinate tasks and priorities, give and consider others suggestions; work as a team to accomplish company objectives efficiently.
• Sharing Knowledge and Expertise- enhances the capabilities of the organization by openly and effectively sharing his/her subject matter expertise with others; supports continuous learning environment by preserving and compiling intellectual capital which can be used by others within the Company; expects and encourages individual and group learning that crosses departmental boundaries.
• Commitment to Excellence- consistently delivers required business results; sets and achieves achievable, yet aggressive goals; consistently complies with quality, service and productivity standards and meets deadlines; maintains focus on company goals.

Job Specific Competencies

• Strong analytical and data-driven thinking. Exceptional problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• Ability to operate independently
• Combine big-picture vision, communication skills, analytical skills, customer empathy, attention to detail and interpersonal/influencing and collaborating skills to drive vision to reality
• High sense of urgency and continuous improvement
• Critical Thinking: Sound judgement and ability to look at issues and content through a multi- dimensional,-cultural, - geographical lens, and possessing a knack to ascertain a situation quickly and thoroughly
• Flexibility and open-mindedness to changes in direction and the addition of new assignments