Commercial Analyst
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Job Summary
Position Title:Commercial Analyst
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID:44045
In every role McCainers are ambitious curious and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
McCain feeds the world from the fries in your favorite restaurant to the snacks in your freezer. Behind every commercial decision we make sits a question only data can answer: Where are we winning Where are we losing What should we do next Thats the work of this role.
Youll be the analytics partner to our QSR channel team supporting the largest customer relationships in global foodservice. Youll have access to our syndicated data and rely on your creativity and skills to source new data. Your dashboards and analyses wont sit on a shelf; theyll shape how we work with customers set targets and place bets for the years ahead.
What youll be doing.
- Sit with QSR sales leads to understand their growth plans then build the data products (dashboards deep-dives scorecards) that let them track and act on those plans week to week.
- Stitch together internal data (Salesforce SAP Databricks) with syndicated sources (Datassential Technomic Circana/NielsenIQ) to answer questions.
- Design semantic models in Power BI that hold up under real stakeholder use clean DAX performant Power Query and reporting that people genuinely return to.
- Draw on field and customer conversations to bring broader context to the analysis so the story explains not just what happened but why
- Lead the evaluation and onboarding of new third-party data sources when the existing stack cant answer the question.
- Partner with IT and other Commercial Analytics teams so the solutions you build plug into the broader McCain data ecosystem rather than becoming one-off islands.
- Translate analysis into story the kind that lands in a customer meeting not just a quarterly review.
What youll need to be successful.
- 3 years in a data analyst BI developer or commercial analytics role working directly with sales customer or commercial datasets.
- Power BI at a builder level youve designed and maintained semantic models that other people depend on not only consumed dashboards someone else built.
- Strong DAX comfortable writing time intelligence iterators and context-aware measures; can diagnose and fix a slow or incorrect calculation.
- Data modeling fundamentals star schema fact/dimension design handling slowly changing data and knowing when to push logic upstream vs. into the model.
- Comfort working across multiple source systems (Salesforce SAP Databricks) and a bias toward fixing data quality at the source rather than patching it in the visual layer.
- Experience with AI development tools and comfort using GPT tools to write and debug code
- Commercial business acumen you can translate a stakeholders vague ask (we want to understand the customer better) into a concrete analytical plan and you push back when the data wont support the conclusion theyre hoping for.
- Communication and data storytelling you can present an analysis to non-technical leaders defend the methodology and make the so what land.
- Bachelors degree in Business Analytics Engineering Mathematics Computer Science Economics or a related quantitative discipline or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Preferred / strong plus
- SQL can read write and validate queries independently (joins window functions CTEs). You use it to check whether the data is telling the truth before publishing a report.
- Experience in CPG retail or foodservice especially supporting a QSR grocery or large-customer channel.
- Hands-on work with syndicated industry data: Datassential Technomic Circana (IRI) NielsenIQ or similar foodservice panels.
- Working knowledge of Salesforce SAP (ECC or S/4HANA) and Databricks or comparable enterprise source systems and lakehouse platforms.
- Experience working in a global or matrixed organization with comfort navigating multiple stakeholders across regions and functions.
- Exposure to Python or PySpark for data prep and analysis beyond what Power Query handles efficiently.
- Familiarity with version control (Git) Power BI deployment pipelines or other practices that bring engineering discipline to BI work.
- Knowledge of the UK / European retail or foodservice landscape.
Benefits of the role.
- Real customers real decisions. Youre not building reports for the sake of it. The QSR channel is one of McCains most strategic and your work is read by our top leaders.
- Scope to build not just maintain. This isnt a ticket-queue analyst role. Youll have room to choose tools propose new data sources and shape how we measure commercial performance in GB&I and Europe.
- A data team that takes the craft seriously. Youll join a Global Commercial Analytics function that invests in modern tooling (Power BI Databricks) values clean semantic modeling and treats analysts as partners to the business not order-takers.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity resilience and success and makes our business qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin sex age veteran status disability or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms) please let us knowand we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCains Global Privacy Policyand Global Employee Privacy Policy as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family:Information Technology; Sales
Location(s): NL - Netherlands : North Holland : Amsterdam
Company:McCain Foods Holland B.V.
Required Experience:
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About Company
McCain Foods | Our purpose - 'Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food'. We supply delicious frozen French fries, potato specialties, and appetizers to retail and foodservice customers around the globe.