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Job Description – Analyst Intern

Reports to Trade Fund Manager

As an Intern with CMG your work is centered in contributing, recreating, and learning by working with managers on specific tasks. This position is an apprentice role where you continuously absorb information and perform directed steps to complete tasks. Many times you will be asked to “do as I do” by being given explicit instructions or by performing steps in tandem with a more senior position. With additional exposure and experience and repeated exposure, more freedom and independence is expected. The formal training component of the program begins with an industry overview and case studies and concludes with a self-directed project or working on a client project with your manager. Your learning and development is a shared responsibility between you and your manager.

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Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or candidate in a STEM field; Master’s & PhD candidates preferred
Excellent verbal, written and oral communication skills
Being comfortable in a collaborative team environment
Strong, dedicated, and dependable work ethic
An inquisitive attitude
An intrinsic motivation
Fast learner who is detail oriented, analytical, and enjoys problem solving
Ability to learn and adapt from previous experiences including mistakes
Ownership and pride in quality output
Ability understand and follow direction
Adaptability and patience as new and changing workload and information becomes available
Basic proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

Overall Responsibilities

Asking questions and having a drive for continuous learning including technical and business related topics
Assisting your manager with a variety of day to day tasks
Clearly communicating timing and availability to your manager
Further expanding your proficiency in Excel and R
Gain an understanding of CPG industry terms, definitions, and relationships
Understanding the use of databases such as:
Pulling data
Fields
Products and Accounts
Cleaning, coding, and validating data
Learning standard CPG/CMG methodologies and processes by duplicating case study training analyses which include:
Promotional performance
Promotional ROIs and effects to the P&L
Everyday pricing impacts
Distribution and distribution opportunity
Time series and basic delta analyses
Volumetric and financial pricing
Populating data used for reporting and tracking
Preparing and presenting (to an internal group) a document that demonstrates what you have learned from data pulls and store visits
Assisting your manager with internal projects
Assisting in answering client retail or manufacturer questions of the day.
Examples of topics include: New item incrementality and projections, competitive activity, out of stock estimates, impacts of package changes, and source of volume analysis, etc.
Learning by observation
Contributing in a “results oriented work environment”
Demonstrating CMG’s core competencies on a daily basis
Specific Job Duties include:
Consumption data management including database queries, data cleaning, and reconciliation.
Evaluation of retail data to estimate promotional impact of price discounts, execution and impact to profit.
Retail everyday pricing impacts by identifying elasticities, thresholds and the impact to volume and profit.
Analyze retail product distribution data for voids, opportunities, and velocity trends.
Produce manufacturer and retail P&L scenarios for various retail executions or strategy changes around pricing, promotion, and distribution.
Modeling the retail variables such as price or competitive impacts with R.
Monthly reporting & Account Planning assistance by pulling database queries and updating reports.
Visiting local stores to complete a training exercise about CPG terms and database measures.
Preparing and presenting a document that demonstrates what you have learned from data pulls and store visits
Little to no travel will be required for this position

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How to Apply

Email your resume to hr@customermarketinggroup.com and include ‘Analyst 1’ in the subject line.

Job Description – Business Analyst

Reports to Trade Fund Manager

This Business Analyst position requires a highproficiency in deductive reasoning, analytical problem solving, and fluid application of data systems and processes. Candidates must possess intellectual curiosity to uncover non-obvious and unique problem-solving factors in creating recommendations.They will proactively contribute to the team with theintent to grow into a leader that sets high standards of client-work that is thorough and timely. The ideal candidates have an acumen for business, are competitively driven to master details, and find the best solutions. Theydemonstrate curiosity and participation in deep interests outside of work. We welcome potential team members who have either recently completed their graduate education or have experience already

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Desired Traits:

Excellent written and verbalcommunication skills
Fast learner who isdetail oriented, analytical, and enjoys problem solving
Flexible in both collaborativeand independent work environments
Strong, dedicated, anddependable work ethic that leads to project ownership and quality
An inquisitiveattitude with an intrinsic need to be right and make a difference whilematurely owning and learning from mistakes
Ability to learn, adaptand grow from cumulative experiences, changing workload and varying clientneeds
Proficiency with Exceland PowerPoint, as well as a statistical program or programming language

Job Duties include:

Consumption datamanagement including database queries, data cleaning, and reconciliation
Evaluation andrecommendations of retail data to estimate promotional impact of pricediscounts, execution and impact to profit
Retail everydaypricing impacts by identifying elasticities, thresholds and the impact to volumeand profit
Analyze retail productdistribution data to address distribution voids, opportunities, and product velocitygaps
Create manufacturerand retail P&L scenarios for various retail executions or strategy changesaround pricing, promotion, and distribution
Econometric modeling ofretail variables such as price or competitive impacts with R
Monthly reporting& Account Planning assistance by adeptly utilizing database queries andupdating gap analysis reports

Benefits:

CMG offers a competitive compensation package, 401K matching, comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision coverage, a flexible vacation policy, and fitness reimbursement.

How to Apply

Email your resume to hr@customermarketinggroup.com and include ‘Business Analyst’ in the subject line.