Business Analyst

MEDITE SMARTPLY is a market leading, responsible manufacturer of sustainable timber construction panels. As part of the Coillte Group, we pride ourselves on our sustainable supply chain and manufacturing processes, meaning our products are as environmentally conscious in their make up as they are in their application. We deliver exceptionally engineered products with outstanding sustainability credentials, customer-focused innovation and industry-leading customer service.

MEDITE is one of Europe’s most recognised brands of MDF and is considered the benchmark for quality, consistency and performance with a wide range of specialist products produced to meet the diverse needs of users, specifiers and designers.

SMARTPLY OSB is the smart, cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to plywood for use in structural and non-structural applications. On-going product innovation continues to widen the scope of application of SMARTPLY OSB into timber frame and low energy construction. Made from fast growing locally sourced FSC certified timber, SMARTPLY OSB panels are fully certified, structurally approved, CE compliant, legal and sustainable alternatives to tropical plywood.

Opportunity

This role is to help analyse and co-ordinate order book, financial, margin and price and customer data. This is a supporting role to help determine policy or tactical changes that improve the business' functions, actions and profitability.
This role directly supports the SMT and acts as a facilitator between the commercial organisation and the financial and operational functions.
This is a proactive and responsive function that will support the senior sales and executive teams’ through-out the business.

Job Dimensions

This role has several important aspects to it. It is a wide ranging role where,
nominally, ‘time’ is focussed on the following areas:
General Commercial analysis: 25%; Market Insights: 25%. Bespoke analysis 10%; Demand Planning 15%, Financial planning / outlooks/forecast: 25%

Typical Responsibilities

• Utilise and develop financial informationsystems and process controls to support thebusiness’ objectives.
• Prepare and produce dashboards to supportcalculation and reporting of MS KPIs.
• Provide ‘order book’ analysis to plan andforecasts.
• Provide input to the ‘demand planning’ process.
• Ensure timely, accurate reporting of salesperformance, price, and margin gaps for MSSenior Management weekly, monthly & quarterly.
• Provide forecasts and outlooks as appropriate.
• Offer assistance on management or rebates andpromotional plans.
• Prepare market insights bases on robustresearch sources.
• Support targeting and measurement of salesteam bonus schedules.
• Support R&D, product mgt and plant finance onpricing and margin analysis.
• Update business reporting modules such as BI.
• Update and provide the business with salespricing and volumes by product class &customer for financial outlooks, forecasts.
• Assist in the delivery of commercial inputs intoBOP, and strategic / 5-year plans.
• Support data manipulation and interpretationfrom CRM systems.
• Support analysis for UK, EU & Ireland salesmanagers.
• Assist in supporting the business on specific project initiatives from time to time.

Performance Indicators

• Timely inputs to budget planning and forecasting
• Accuracy of forecasts
• Price intelligence by customer / range /market
• Volume analysis by sector / market
• Margin analysis
• KPI dashboards
• Order book analysis
• Concise actionable analysis & recommendations
• Market map data
• Import/Export detail review
• Audit compliance to internal standards