COMMERCIAL ANALYST; MARKETING
Avesta CropScience Inc. · Cary, NC · 5 days ago
ManagementFull-time
About the role
The Commercial Analyst; Marketing, reporting to the Vice President of Marketing, will provide in-depth market analysis centered around customers, pricing and segmentation and help turn data into direction for the marketing team.
Responsibilities
- Produce recurring and ad hoc reporting and analysis that supports overall marketing strategy and annual planning
- Build and maintain dashboards that give leadership and the field a consistent view of program performance, pricing position, and share movement
- Collaborate with Commercial, Finance, and Marketing to provide visibility and actionable recommendations to the field, including in-season program guidance during peak selling windows
- Conduct market sizing, segmentation, and competitive analysis to support product positioning and new product launch decisions
- Monitor industry trends, pricing dynamics, generic entry timing, and competitor activity; flag developments that warrant a strategic response
- Track post-launch product performance against forecast and identify the drivers behind variances
- Translate findings into clear, concise recommendations for marketing leadership — the deliverable is a decision, not a data dump
- Own data quality and definitional consistency across marketing reporting so the numbers hold up in cross-functional conversations
Requirements
- Minimum of five years of relevant work experience in FP&A, Marketing, Consulting, Economics, or other relevant fields is required.
- Experience in chemical manufacturing preferred but not required
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Finance, or other relevant fields is required
- Advanced MS Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, lookups), MS PowerPoint (charts, graphs)
- An analytical mindset with the ability to analyze, simplify and communicate data
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proactive communication skills along with strong initiative and balanced judgment
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Organizational skills with superior attention to detail
- Ability to coordinate and communicate across multiple functional disciplines
- Excellent computation skills to make calculations with good speed and accuracy
- Adaptable and entrepreneurial with a background in a dynamic, fast-moving business environment
Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of relevant work experience in FP&A, Marketing, Consulting, Economics, or other relevant fields is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Finance, or other relevant fields is required
- Advanced MS Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, lookups), MS PowerPoint (charts, graphs)
- An analytical mindset with the ability to analyze, simplify and communicate data
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proactive communication skills along with strong initiative and balanced judgment
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Organizational skills with superior attention to detail
- Ability to coordinate and communicate across multiple functional disciplines
- Excellent computation skills to make calculations with good speed and accuracy
- Adaptable and entrepreneurial with a background in a dynamic, fast-moving business environment