Senior Manager, Business Analytics

Job Description

Why Valvoline Global Operations?

Valvoline Global is a worldwide leader in automotive and industrial solutions, creating future-ready products and best-in-class services for partners around the globe. Established in 1866, we introduced the world's first branded motor oil, claiming our position as The Original Motor Oil. ?

As an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we continue to invest strategically and expand globally, driving unparalleled product innovation and sustainable business solutions.

Our corporate values of care, integrity, passion, and excellence shape everything we do. Living out our values is what makes our company, our employees, our partners, our customers, and the communities we serve great.

When you join Valvoline Global, you join a culture that is committed to: treating all people with care, operating with integrity, striving for excellence in everything we do, and showing passion about delivering on our commitments.

Careers for the Driven

Valvoline has a rewarding opportunity as a Senior Manager, Business Analytics. We whole-heartedly adopt a 'never idle' mindset. We also know that outstanding service begins and ends with our employees. So, we're looking for good people to join our team. You bring your skills, talents, and drive. We will give you a great place to work, a competitive salary and benefits, and the resources and support to develop and advance within our global company.

*Valvoline Global Operations Headquarters is located in Lexington, KY. The location preference is this position will be on-site (preference 3x a week). *We offer relocation assistance for non-local candidates.

How You'll Make an Impact

The Senior Manager, Business Analytics will lead the Sales Analytics & Optimization team, focused on the management of multiple critical growth drivers across key accounts. This includes pricing and funding, promotions and merchandising, product assortment, and shelving. Leading this team will include establishing best practices for identifying and communicating data-driven insights and indicated actions that drive accelerated growth and increased efficiency, as well as establish consistency and best practices for price and profitability strategies across business and product lines. This leader will collaborate extensively with internal and external stakeholders across marketing, sales, supply chain, and finance. In the role, you would be responsible for:

• Business Analyst Leadership: Manage and lead your team's role in the monthly financial input process, which will include collaborating with finance, sales, and accounting teams to ensure the monthly financial inputs are accurate and timely.
• Coaching, developing, and managing a team that drives the business through the following activities:
  • Pricing Analysis : Identify ideal everyday and promotional price gaps; monitor to ensure Valvoline stays within them; recommend changes as needed.
  • Promotions, Funding & Financial Execution: Evaluate promotions via a robust pre and post event analysis process. Make optimizations to promotional events and plans to drive out ineffective dollars and drive volume, sales, and profit higher.
  • Assortment: Evaluate assortment by retailer to ensure Valvoline and retailer maintains the optimal shelf set. Make recommendations to drive Valvoline market share and category growth.
  • Volume Forecasting: Regular collaboration with the supply chain analysts to provide monthly updates to consumption and shipment forecasts by account.
• Technology Leadership: Oversee analytical systems such as Trade Promotion Management system, SAP master data and analytic enablement, Shopper Insights platform, and POS/Category Management systems.
• Other duties and responsibilities as determined by Valvoline from time to time in its sole discretion.

What You'll Need

• BA in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Communication, or related field
• Minimum of seven years of CPG marketing analytics, business/data analysis, finance/accounting or related experience
• Minimum of three years of people management experience
• Deep expertise in turning business results/data into insights and actionable recommendations
• Ability to coach and develop others
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Sales/Customer-facing experience, ability to be partner persuasively
• Data management and analysis skills, merging several data sources, identifying trends (Excel, Data Visualization tools, SAP, Reporting tools)
• Strong experience in financial and analytical skills; must be able to analyze information and provide recommendations
• Decision quality - make good decisions based upon mixture of facts, analysis and experience
• Ability to tactfully challenge assumptions made by others
• Strong business acumen - knows how business works, knowledge of business and organization basics, as well as current and future trends affecting the business and organization; is aware of how strategies and tactics are implemented by the business units
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

What Will Set You Apart

• MBA

Benefits That Drive Themselves

• Health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision)
• HSA and flexible spending accounts
• 401(k)
• Incentive opportunity*
• Life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays*
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee discounts
• Tuition reimbursement*
• Adoption assistance*

*Terms and conditions apply, and benefits may differ depending on position.

Valvoline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Are you good at what you do? Join us.

The Company endeavors to make its recruitment process accessible to any and all users. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, upon request, to applicants with disabilities in order to facilitate equal opportunity throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at 1-800-Valvoline or email [email protected] to make a request for reasonable accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. The contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

Application Instructions

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