Founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people’s lives with our high-quality products and services to create a Kirei Life for all – a beautiful life that respects the needs of our consumers and customers as well as the planet. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. As a company driven by purpose and strong corporate values, we pride ourselves to be listed among the World´s Most Ethical Companies since 18 consecutive years. Our corporate philosophy, the Kao Way, guides us in everything we do – acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation, and treating each other with trust and respect.
The role:
As the business expands into new categories, channels and increases in complexity, this role ensures accurate, automated, and insightful reporting across Hair, Skin, Sun, and Tan. Supporting EMEA and CCELT teams, it delivers performance tracking, input into strategic projects, and continuous reporting improvements to enable data-driven decisions and operational efficiency.
What you will do: - Issuing regular reporting across Hair, Skin, Sun and Tan Categories
- Updating and sharing regular performance reports using a blend of sources: EPOS, Scantrack, Panel, Profitero, etc
- Optimising reporting solutions:
- Identify areas to further improve reporting processes/deliverable using Kaizen philosophy
- Implement solutions that automate reporting and allow key stakeholders to self serve for all basic needs
- Create uniform reporting solutions across our categories
- Database management:
- Work with agency partners to ensure all existing products are placed correctly and misplaced products are rectified immediately
- New products are added to databases every month, ensure these are correctly placed using the 'New Adds' process
- Respond to adhoc Insight requests
- Support CCELT & EMEA Team with ad hoc data, insights, visualisation requests
- Input into key Insight projects (channel strategy, portfolio management, growth pillars, market share calculators etc)
- Input may be required on conducting market research surveys through designing and interpreting questionnaire results
- Price and Promo monitoring
- Explore solutions that allow KAO to monitor price and promo movements for our competitive set
- Input into key promo and pricing projects carried out by EMEA inc. RGM.
- Set up NPD performance trackers for KAO and competitor launches
- Share results blending data and insights from multiple sources
What you will need:
- BSc/BA Hons degree or equivalent desired but not essential
- Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or other applied science backgrounds nice to have but not at all essential
- Minimum 2 years experience in a data, insights or commercial position
- Demonstrable proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint
- Ability to use Power Bi desired. Additionally, knowledge of Python is desired, but not essential
- Ability to use Circana, Kantar and other retail insight platforms preferred
- Ability to analyse and interpret large volumes of data from multiple source to create compelling stories with actionable insights
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent data management and analytical skills
- Ability to combine multiple sources to generate easy to use reports
- Extremely organized with the ability to manage a number of projects and priorities to tight deadlines
- Commercial curiosity with a desire to develop customer understanding
- Strong visualisation skills to present data and insights in an impactful and engaging way
How we work: Having been selected among the World´s Most Ethical Companies for 16 consecutive years, we are a company with a purpose and strong corporate values. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. At Kao, each employee can actively shape their job and their career. We work collaboratively to achieve our common goals, always aiming to deliver the best for our customers.
What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with competitive salaries, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward entrepreneurial thinking and innovation.
Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.
Want to learn more: If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit our Americas website (https://www.kao.com/americas/en/) or EMEA website (https://www.kao.com/emea/en/)
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