LOCATION: Songjiang District, Shanghai, China
REPORTS TO: Director, Global
Product Portfolio
Tapioca, Rice & Potato,
Texture Solutions Food
WORKPLACE TYPE:
Hybrid
The
Senior Analyst, Product Line Management (PLM) TS Food – APAC
will help drive the global Texture Portfolio by identifying insights into product performance, costing and markets. Collaborates with organizational centers of excellence to enhance portfolio analyses.
As part of a global team, this role contributes to the realization of Ingredion's Winning Aspiration to be the customer-preferred texturizing and healthful solutions supplier and thought leader through our broad portfolio, extensive customer insight and market-leading cost-in-use position that addresses consumer expectations spanning affordability, premiumization and/or clean label requirements.
The Senior Analyst position will assist in developing strategic recommendations informed by complex analyses, research, and input from stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with strong analytical, project management and communication skills who is comfortable navigating & collaborating in a global matrix organization.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead analyst for Texture Solutions produced in the APAC region in support of comprehensive Texture Solutions Food portfolio.
- Leverages internal and external data sources (including market reports, internal data points, import data and other relevant data sources) to support portfolio strategies and monitor texture portfolio performance.
- Providing a consolidated view of the portfolio performance through data analytics, working closely with geographies to ensure alignment of strategic targets and plans.
- Provide analysis to support regional S&OP projects to align global portfolios.
- Leads creation of complex analyses and data visualization tools in support of Global Texture Solutions Food team
- Collaborates with other PLM peers on leveraging best practices and capabilities, so there is a common methodology in how Global Texture Solutions Food conducts analyses
- Developing, maintaining and managing Business Intelligence dashboards for pricing, SKU optimization and other key analyses for PLM to assist in quicker analytical capabilities and decision-making.
- Support global process/systems for customer intelligence (e.g., share of wallet & opportunities analysis) on assigned product categories.
Qualified candidates would have :
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, International Business, Data Analytics, or Supply Chain. MBA preferred.
- 3 to 5 years of B2B industry experience in business analysis, pricing or project management, ideally in the food & beverage industry
- Strong Financial, analytical, data visualization, and communications skills required
- Experience in a manufacturing industry, preferably in the Food & Beverage space
- English fluency, both written and spoken
- Experience building PowerBI dashboards
- Experience with SAP BW (Bex) and SAP Analytics
Required Behaviors And Skills
- Strategic mindset with excellent analytical skills and financial acumen
- Creative thinker who can use various datasets to tell a story
- Proven ability to build relationships and work effectively within a matrix organization
- Natural curiosity and strives to go beyond the assigned task
- Anticipate questions and objections and proactively answers the question "so what"