Commercial Analyst (72189)
Ntice Sourcing Solutions · Cape Town, Western Cape
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- An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and commercially minded professional to join a dynamic FMCG Manufacturing environment in the Cape Town office.
- This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across multiple divisions, supporting commercial performance, product costing, forecasting, planning, and operational efficiency
- The successful applicant will play a key role in transforming data into actionable insights, improving processes, and supporting informed business decisions. This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical and detail-oriented individual looking to grow their career in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
Duties will include - but not limited - to the following
- Product Costing Analysis
- Updating product costing
- Reviewing cost drivers - cycle time, part weight, assumed volumes etc
- Collecting costing information from various stakeholders and presenting it in summarized format
- Maintaining cost updates on shared locations and managing access to these files
- Advising master data of updates with relevant stakeholders
- Maintaining and updating ad hoc costing's
Commercial
- Assisting with monthly Sales Report & Graphs
- Assisting with YTD Sales Report & Graphs
- Assisting with Internal Cost Recovery Tracking
- Assisting with Customer Specific Cost Recovery Tracking
- Assisting with Customer/product specific forecast consolidation and maintenance
- Assisting with Maintaining, updating and improving these reports as needed
- Assisting with forecasting models IBP as per the budget
- Working closely with internal SAP team
- Maintaining of SAP master data
Planning
- Assist Planner to create production orders for the plants
- Analyzing and processing plant efficiencies
- Attend planning meeting
- Raw Material and Finished Goods
- Stock Holding and Prevention of stock-outs
- Scrapping of raw material and finished goods and issuing of grind release form for signature
- Monitor & control raw material and finished goods dead stock
- Monthly variance raw material and finished goods report and provide feedback
- raw material and finished goods forecast. Finished goods stock items
- Cost-effective RM, MB, CO solutions
- Analyzing orders and highlighting any possible raw material concerns
Sales
- Managing colour matching process and sample requests for sales team
- Coordinating samples for customers
- Trade show preparation
- Create purchase order numbers
- Capturing masterbatch dosages
- Planning trials
To be considered for this position applicants must meet the following minimum criteria:
- BCom - Emphasis on Finance/Commerce/Business Management
- SAP knowledge or similar highly recommended
- Be highly computer literate MS Office 365, Excel
- Be highly numerate and detail oriented
- Highly organized and strong administration skills
- Logical, systematic and organized approach
- Team player
- Work well under pressure in a high pace environment
- Ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders
- An energetic, positive personality
- Be assertive
- Clear interest in FMCG