Senior Commercial Projects Analyst
FARFETCH
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
SQL
About the role
- Lead on various supply-side incentives, including commercial rebates on key constrained supply, financial products for partners to better manage cash flow and broader commission rate negotiations
- Working with Supply Partnerships team to assess partner pain-points from a commercial perspective - this could range from operational processes, payment terms, or margin challenges
- Develop strategies to address those pain-points, enabling the unlock of attractive supply and achievement of full parity from our supply partners, supporting their execution on an ongoing basis
- Set targets and measure performance of these incentives, ensuring they continue to deliver on objectives and drive the expected return on investment
- Monitor progress of key strategic projects, owning the tracking of supply-side margins and working with partner-facing teams and internal finance and pricing teams to optimise them
- Actively involved in the scoping of new business initiatives, particularly on ensuring financial guardrails are met while delivering a compelling proposition for our supply partners to make the project a success
- Develop and lead on programme-level KPI tracking from a Commercial POV, unpicking drivers of performance and working with various teams to improve performance
- On an ongoing basis, conduct analysis to understand how these projects impact Farfetch margin evolution through the season so we can better define our strategy and plan our business going forward
- Fill analytical gaps in various commercial areas, aligned to business needs
- Leverage your breadth of knowledge across different areas of the business, and depth of expertise in various performance and financial metrics, to help dig into particular areas where there is a business need
- This could include supporting ongoing forecasting / planning needs, as well as new projects that the commercial team will embark on and requiring cross-functional knowledge and analytical capabilities to facilitate
Requirements
- Highly commercially minded, with experience in Commercial Strategy & Planning or Consulting
- Advanced forecasting and data modelling techniques
- Use data to bring operationally and commercially relevant insights
- Experience working with a range of stakeholders, including senior management
- You have great communication skills and are comfortable structuring and transforming commercial inputs into numbers
- You have technical skills for processing and analysing large amounts of data
- Required: Excel (can perform complex functions) and SQL
- Understanding and passion for e-commerce and the fashion/luxury industry is a very big plus!
Benefits
- Employee Pension Scheme
- Flexible Benefits Program
- Health Insurance & Critical Illness cover
- Flexible work environment- Hybrid Model (3 days a week from the office, 2 days from home)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
forecastingdata modellingdata analysiscommercial strategyperformance metricsfinancial metricsKPI trackingcomplex Excel functionsSQL
Soft skills
commercially mindedcommunication skillsstakeholder managementanalytical capabilitiesproblem-solvingstrategic thinking