Business Graduate - Parkside Office Professional : Job Details

Graduate opportunity!!!This role would suit a recent Business, Economics Graduate that would like to build their Career. Our well know client based in Bracknell is seeking a Business Planning Coordinator to join their team, Monday to Friday, hybrid working.Role:The core purpose of this role is the preparation and deployment of key internal reports and processes within the Commercial Planning and Development team.  Day to day activities will include monitoring, reporting, analysing and projecting the company performance, market trends and competitor activities, taking account of internal factors, market trend data and economic conditions. In addition, this individual will operate and maintain key internal systems and processes, including processing monthly campaign payments to Retailers and assisting with Retailer queries. A key element of this role is the accurate and timely communication of the UK’s mix requirements to company on a monthly basis.  By doing so, the role contributes significantly to company achieving their overall sales plan. The successful candidate will have to demonstrate a fast-paced, commercial and analytical aptitude as well as the ability to effectively communicate with and influence stakeholders across the business, at all levels. Main Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the preparation of the monthly  ordering process and supply overview, helping to ensure both business and customer requirements are met not only for regular supply, but to support new model launches, tactical activity, model run outs, and backorder management.
• Regular mix review of all models adjusting production where necessary.
• Issue relevant reports related to the company production and sales performance to key stakeholders on both a regular and ad-hoc basis.
• Prepare monthly dealer payment reports for management approval and coordinate subsequent campaign payments for Retailers in a timely manner.
• Help maintain the Dealer Marketing systems, assisting with retailer queries related to campaign payments.
• Study the customer demand to understand trends such as the sales channel mix, customer types and conquest ratios to ensure effective supply management that is reflective of the real situation.
• Undertake regular analysis and reporting to provide sales and market forecasts, economic outlook and customer trends, to identify market opportunities and threats.
• Strong dialogue with stakeholders to ensure understanding of market trends, as well as business objectives, performance, progress, issues, and countermeasures.
• Be responsible for the operating and maintaining key reporting tools.
• Liaison with Supply Operations team to develop close working relationships between logistics team and business planning.
• As part of the wider Commercial Planning department provide support to the whole team as required.

Qualifications, skills and experience: Required/Desirable

• Organised with ability to manage several diverse tasks at once.
• Demonstrate natural analytical inquisitiveness to further their understanding of a problem. 
• Technical capability to manipulate large data sets in Excel.
• Ability to clearly communicate results of analysis.
• Analytical, methodical and organised with brilliant attention to detail 
• Self-starter who can follow through proposals to implementation and then review the impact of such proposals