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Australia

Remote

• A foundational member of the Commercial and Strategic Insights team, working closely with Senior Leadership and executives to drive good commercial decision making and support strategic direction.
• Revenue modelling and forecasting - contribute to business performance oversight and budgeting, built on a deep understanding of the commercial drivers, competitive landscape and broader macroeconomic trends that.
• Report, investigate and communicate key business… Show more
• Report, investigate and communicate key business performance drivers and outcomes that feed through to senior leaders and executives.
• Advise and partner to assist key business decisions, initiatives and priorities - including business casing, quantitative analysis, scenario modelling and structured commercial problem solving.
• Enable leaders with industry knowledge and competitive intelligence - research, collect, collaborate and synthesize the market landscape into insightful and actionable narratives.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managed a broad role encompassing strategic planning, sales optimisation, operations and analysis across the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and India (MEATI) regions.
• Supported the creation and management of demand forecasts for the MEATI region and analysed actual sales against forecasted sell-in changes by region.
• Worked in partnership with divisional leaders across Marketing/PR, Commercial Sales, Digital Stores and Finance to set annual business metrics and growth targets.
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• Collaborated on the sell-thru and sell-out forecast process in IBP (SAP) and drove alignment with cross-functional partners to achieve forecasting and reporting accuracy.
• Made recommendations to adjust regional forecasts and inventory levels based on demand and market trend analysis and instigated market research projects in key regions to facilitated substantial strategic redirection.

Sydney, Australia

• Held responsibility for both the Australian and New Zealand markets and facilitated the annual budgeting and forecasting process for each region.
• Recruited, trained and developed new Junior Demand Analyst and provided daily leadership and mentoring.
• Led team innovation and functional process improvement opportunities, utilising KPI’s to identify strengths and opportunities within the forecasting process.
• Collaborated with Inventory Planning teams ensuring accurate product… Show more
• Collaborated with Inventory Planning teams ensuring accurate product procurement and warehouse stock management, as well as high sales order fill rates.
• Contributed to Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes including business plan development, forecast monitoring and supply chain vs demand planning.

Sydney, Australia

• Delivered effectively formatted sales data, insights and recommendations for new release tracking, product mix and other data to senior management.
• Produced and distributed reports (KPI, statistical and trends reports) to facilitate demand planning responsibilities.
• Conducted post analysis and seasonality reporting for account sales, key competitors, branding and products.
• Used primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative data to analyse sales and market trends and to… Show more
• Used primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative data to analyse sales and market trends and to gain key strategic marketing advantages.
• Partnered with marketing and sales managers to identify sales opportunities. Show less

Sydney, Australia

• Worked across film and entertainment divisions, working in a dual role combining accounting and analytical duties.
• Conducted extensive reporting on forecasts and budgets to determine return on investment (ROI),
• Prepared financial accounting data and reports as well as monthly reconciliation and variable investigations.

Master'S Degree, International Business/Trade/Commerce, Distinction Average

Bachelor'S Degree, Combined Business (Accounting & Economics) & Arts In International Studies, Distinction Average

The international studies portion required foreign in country study. My country of choice was Spain. This involved language studies prior.