Job Description
At the Electrolux Group, as a leading global appliance company, we strive every day to shape living for the better for our consumers, our people and our planet. We share ideas and collaborate so that together, we can develop solutions that deliver enjoyable and sustainable living.
Come join us as you are. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and more innovative. In our global community of people from 100+ countries, we listen to each other, actively contribute and grow together.
Join us in our exciting quest to build the future home!
About The Role
As a Commercial Product & Insights Lead, you'll play a critical role in shaping product and category decisions through data-driven insights, commercial analysis, and strategic planning.
Partnering closely with Category Managers and cross-functional stakeholders, you'll bring together market intelligence, business performance data, and financial analysis to inform key decisions across product portfolio management, promotional investment, forecasting, and growth opportunities. Your work will help ensure the business is making informed, commercially sound decisions that drive profitable growth.
This role is ideal for a commercially astute analyst who enjoys translating complex data into actionable recommendations and influencing business outcomes through insight-led decision making.
What You’ll Do
You will partner with Category Managers in achieving category objectives in line with business strategy, focusing on:
Lead Commercial Insights & Performance Analysis
- You'll provide the insights that underpin product and category strategy.
- Monitor market demand, competitor activity, pricing trends, market share performance, and channel dynamics.
- Translate internal and external data into meaningful commercial insights and recommendations.
- Develop regular performance reporting and dashboards for category and leadership teams.
- Identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends to support proactive decision-making.
Drive Promotional Investment Effectiveness
You'll help maximise returns on promotional and commercial investments.
- Manage the promotional planning framework and annual activity calendar.
- Analyse and model promotional initiatives across products, customers, and markets.
- Assess financial impacts including margin performance, Gross-to-Net outcomes, promotional funding effectiveness, and customer investment returns.
- Monitor performance against approved budgets and funding allocations.
- Recommend optimisation opportunities and support business cases for additional investment where required.
Support Product Portfolio & Growth Decisions
You'll provide analytical leadership for new product introductions and ongoing portfolio management.
- Develop and coordinate business cases for new product launches and strategic category initiatives.
- Model commercial assumptions including volume, pricing, cost of goods, investment, warranty, transport costs, and profitability.
- Analyse product mix, pricing architecture, and SKU profitability to support portfolio optimisation.
- Maintain robust governance and traceability of assumptions, approvals, and decision-making inputs.
Improve Planning, Reporting & Automation
You'll lead continuous improvement across planning and insight capabilities.
- Act as the business owner for planning tools, reporting frameworks, and calculation methodologies.
- Partner with technology and data teams to define business requirements and strengthen reporting processes.
- Develop automated and scalable reporting solutions using Microsoft 365, AI-enabled tools, Power BI, and Power Platform solutions.
- Champion data quality, governance, and reporting consistency across the category function.
Enable Strategic Planning & Forecasting
- You'll support better planning outcomes through independent analysis and scenario modelling.
- Develop market-based forecasts and strategic scenarios to support planning cycles.
- Provide analytical challenge and recommendations during S&OP and business planning discussions.
- Highlight gaps between market demand, commercial objectives, customer inputs, and portfolio strategies.
- Support informed decision-making through objective, evidence-based analysis.
Who You Are:
We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical capability with commercial curiosity and the confidence to influence decision-making.
- A strategic thinker who can connect market trends, financial performance, and customer dynamics.
- Commercially astute, with strong experience in pricing, profitability, promotional effectiveness, and business performance analysis.
- Comfortable working with large and complex datasets to uncover actionable insights.
- Highly proficient in Excel and experienced in business intelligence and reporting tools.
- Able to simplify complex analysis and communicate recommendations clearly to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on governance, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
- Confident influencing senior stakeholders while collaborating effectively across functions.
Essential
- Degree qualification in Business, Commerce, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- Significant experience in a commercial analytics, category management, commercial finance, business insights, or similar role.
- Advanced Excel skills, including financial modelling, automation, and data analysis.
- Experience translating data into commercial recommendations that influence business outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
Desirable
- Experience within consumer durables, appliances, retail, FMCG, or a similarly product-focused industry.
- Proficiency in Power BI, Power Platform, SQL, or other reporting and analytics tools.
- Experience supporting category management, portfolio planning, pricing strategy, forecasting, or promotional analysis.
Why work for Electrolux?
- Take advantage of exclusive discounts on our products for you, your family, and friends.
- We offer onsite parking, so your day starts and ends with ease.
- Our Mentorship Program connects you with experienced leaders to support your personal and professional development.
- Recharge with CARE Day an additional day off just for you
- Stay healthy with annual onsite flu shots, skin checks plus access to wellness sessions and webinars to support your physical and mental health.
- Join a workplace that celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion, backed by our dedicated DEI Committee.
- Be part of a company committed to sustainability, with real action behind our environmental goals.
As part of the Electrolux Group, we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you!
Find out more on www.electroluxgroup.com
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