Business Intelligence Lead

- Lead business performance analysis across brands, categories, channels, and customers to identify growth opportunities, risks, and emerging trends.

- Monitor key commercial performance indicators including sales performance, market share, competitive performance, and category growth, providing actionable insights to support business decisions.

- Conduct market intelligence activities such as market sizing, category assessments, competitor analysis, and channel performance evaluations to support strategic initiatives and portfolio planning.

- Support forecasting, budgeting, brand planning, and integrated business planning processes through analytical modeling, scenario analysis, and business performance evaluation.

- Own reporting processes and data governance standards, ensuring the quality, consistency, and integrity of commercial data while managing relationships with external data providers and analytics partners.

- Drive analytics capability development through reporting automation, dashboard development, process improvement, and the adoption of advanced analytical methodologies and visualization techniques.

- Serve as a trusted business partner to cross-functional stakeholders, translating business questions into analytical frameworks and presenting clear recommendations to support strategic decision-making.

Employee Benefits:
- Opportunity to own and shape the future of a growing consumer brand.
- Significant exposure to regional and global stakeholders.
- High level of autonomy and decision-making responsibility.
- Cross-functional collaboration across commercial, marketing, regulatory, and supply chain teams.
- Dynamic and entrepreneurial working environment.
- Professional development and career growth opportunities.
- Exposure to brand strategy, innovation, communications, and consumer engagement initiatives.

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.

- 5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Performance Analytics, Commercial Analytics, Strategic Planning, or related functions.

-Experience supporting commercial and strategic business decisions through analytics.

- Strong understanding of the Japan consumer and retail landscape.

- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities in a dynamic business environment.

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, data visualization, statistical analysis, and business performance reporting.

- Experience with SQL, Python, forecasting techniques, predictive analytics, or AI-enabled analytics solutions is advantageous.

- Strong business acumen, analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

- Ability to present complex information clearly and influence decision-making through data-driven recommendations.