COMMERCIAL PLANNING INTERN - LONDON
Working within the Revenue Growth & Planning team, the Commercial Planning Intern, On Trade is heavily involved in the day to day of MHUK commercial operations and value creations, working alongside various departments & especially the sales teams, delivering accuracy in volume & revenue forecasting to report the most robust data & optimize commercial strategies & sound decision making.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Commercial planning partner for the following channel within MHUK
• Direct & Indirect On-trade, RTM
• Other key channels include retail, private sales, corporate, sponsorship & festivals
Commercial Planning
• Assist the sales team on their planning journey
• Be the first point of contact for commercial investment for creation and amendment
• Support sales team to create new customers in SAP & Aspire
• Assist the commercial planning partner in challenging the accuracy of the volume, price and FTT forecast (full price waterfall)
• Update on a monthly basis forecast accuracy & variances PBI dashboards & share an update to key stakeholders with commentary on key evolutions
Stock & Depletion Management
• Drive data collection, reporting and analysis
• Process all the weekly data received from mass-retail customers, including communication to key stakeholders and BI tool management with commentary on key evolutions
• Maintain the multiple sources used in Power Bi to keep accurate and up to date Off-Trade dashboards
• Support the commercial planning business partner to manage the end-of-year stock landing for key mass retail customers
Tools Management
• Assist the Commercial Planning Business Partner in the administration of the planning tool (Anaplan, FIP (Indirect On-trade forecast tool), Aspire & Power BI)
Reporting
• Support the commercial planning partner in consolidating the data for the key commercial reports
Data Management & Analysis
• Develop an expertise on our different BI tools: UK Business Planning, Qliksense, SAM
• Understand the business concepts behind the data to be able to train different types of stakeholders.
• Be able to understand the different roles in the company to adapt the trainings.
• Develop analysis for key stakeholders of the Sales and Marketing teams.
PROFILE
Education
• Degree level education or equivalent experience
Professional experience & know how:
• Systems & data management experience in a commercial environment is a plus
• P&L and value chain understanding
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders to improve overall efficiency
• Interest in the Wines & Spirits industry is a plus
Technical skills
• Strong Excel skills (Pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, SUMIFS), VBA is a plus
• Data visualization tool is a plus (Power BI, Tableau)
• MS Office (Outlook, Word, Power Point)
Personal & interpersonal skills:
• Excellent communication & listening skills, team player
• Good organizational, time management & planning skills
• Rigorous, adaptable, autonomous, proactive
• Like to deal with numbers & data
• Ability to learn on the fly
Languages
• English
• Another international language is a plus