Sr. Analyst, Commercial Insights and Analytics

Job Summary

The Commercial Insights and Analytics Sr. Analyst serves as a key liaison between Finance and Commercial teams, delivering actionable insights that drive profitable growth and informed decision-making. This role translates complex data into clear business narratives, supports financial planning, forecasting, and demand alignment, and partners cross-functionally to evaluate commercial performance, pricing, GTN, and investment decisions. The position leads performance reporting, profitability analysis, and scenario modeling while ensuring data integrity and governance across all analytics. Leveraging tools such as SAP, TM1, SAC, and Qlik, the role enhances forecasting accuracy, optimizes margins, and drives process improvements to enable efficient, data-driven business outcomes. This is a hybrid position, and the selected candidate will be required to work onsite in the Lake Zurich, Illinois office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Financial Planning: Contribute to the financial forecasting, budgeting, and long-term strategic planning processes, ensuring insights are translated into measurable outcomes.
• Forecasting & Demand Planning: Partner with Finance and Supply Chain teams to enhance forecast accuracy and demand planning, ensuring alignment with financial and operational targets.
• Deliver Strategic Insights: Communicate key findings, financial trends, and strategic recommendations clearly, both verbally and in written reports, to senior management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to evaluate new product launches, promotional investments, and commercial performance.
• Profitability Analysis: Evaluate pricing strategies, assess the financial impact of commercial decisions, and provide data-driven guidance to optimize margin and revenue outcomes.
• GTN (Gross to Net) Analysis: Review and monitor gross to net calculations in relation to the forecasting process.
• Performance Reporting & Analytics: Develop and manage financial and commercial reporting templates that enable data-driven decisions across sales, marketing, and operations.
• Data Integrity & Governance: Ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of all commercial and financial reports and analytical outputs.
• Ad Hoc Financial Analysis: Design and execute complex financial models and scenario analyses to support pricing, investment decisions, and business cases across multiple functional areas.
• Commercial Decision Support: Provide actionable recommendations based on comparative and cost-benefit analyses, incorporating factors such as market trends, competitive dynamics, and customer behavior.
• Process Optimization: Identify and lead process improvement initiatives; develop tools and dashboards that enhance business visibility and efficiency in forecasting and performance management.
• Leverage Advanced Analytics Platforms: Utilize advanced analytics platforms such as SAP, SAC, TM1, Qlik, and other BI tools to extract, analyze, and visualize data for decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required (Advanced degree is a plus).
• 5+ years’ related experience (i.e. Finance, Pricing, Marketing, etc.).
• Strong ability to think analytically, execute to a goal/vision, influence, problem solve, and impact/drive change in a heavily matrixed global environment.
• Demonstrates independence and must be self-driven.
• Work with cross functional teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
• Must be able to think innovatively and strategically and have a desire for learning.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute task in a dynamic environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Project, PowerPoint, SAP, Qlik, and TM1.
• Able to manage and prioritize multiple complex projects with demonstrated time management skills as well as the ability to work independently.
• Able to work effectively with all employees and external business contacts while conveying a positive, service-oriented attitude.
• Able to maintain complete confidentiality and discretion in business relationships and exercise sound business judgment.
• Able to work flexible hours and weekends to meet business/customer needs.