GCC Data Analyst

Role purpose

Regional reporting and planning

• Maintain daily, weekly, and monthly dashboards for sales, gross margin, collections, targets, and budget versus actual performance.
• Analyze results by market, channel, customer, brand, category, product, and salesperson; explain movements and exceptions.
• Prepare management performance packs and commentary; coordinate regional target submissions and consolidate country and channel plans.
• Forecast sales using historical run rates, seasonality, orders, sell-out trends, stock, promotions, and commercial plans; track forecast accuracy and risks.

Inventory and commercial analysis

• Monitor stock, shipments, committed stock, coverage, stock-outs, aging, and item movement by market and SKU.
• Analyze purchases and replenishment using sales history, forecast demand, lead times, and target coverage; flag excess and shortage risks.
• Support liquidation reviews with aging, margin, stock exposure, and recommended actions.
• Analyze retail, dealer, and contract prices, promotions, discounts, rebates, and pricing support; build value chains and margin scenarios.
• Compare market and competitor prices; identify price gaps and changes requiring review.

Retail, data quality, and stakeholders

• Consolidate retailer sell-out, point-of-sale, online, and marketplace data, distinguishing sell-in from consumer sell-out.
• Track priority product listings, availability, prices, seller position, rankings, and sales indicators; evaluate promotions and channel initiatives.
• Maintain business mappings, reconcile dashboards to ERP, finance, and source reports, and document metrics, refresh timing, and data limitations.
• Work with Sales, Finance, Buying, Supply Chain, E-commerce, Customer Care, and country teams to resolve gaps and answer business questions.
• Automate recurring reports while maintaining transparent calculations and access controls.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• At least 4–6 years in commercial or sales analysis, business intelligence, demand planning, or finance analysis; GCC experience is preferred.
• Consumer electronics, home appliances, retail, distribution, or FMCG experience is strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel, including PivotTables, Power Query, and data modelling; strong Power BI dashboard and DAX skills; working SQL knowledge.
• Experience extracting and reconciling ERP data. SAP, Oracle, or comparable ERP platforms and marketplace reporting are advantageous.
• Strong numerical reasoning, attention to detail, written communication, and ability to explain findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Professional English is required; Arabic or other GCC market languages are advantageous. Willingness to travel within the GCC when needed.

Work location

• Work location is in person.