COMMERCIAL PLANNING SPECIALIST

About the Role

JTI is seeking a Commercial Planning Specialist to join their team in Jeddah. This permanent role is designed for professionals with 0-1 years of experience, focusing on building a robust commercial data foundation and converting data into actionable business insights. The specialist will enhance data quality, reporting consistency, and support evidence-based decision-making across sales, distribution, trade activation, and route-to-market activities.

Role Overview

The Commercial Planning Specialist will focus on strengthening market data foundations, improving recurring reporting, and contributing practical analysis to business decisions. This role involves collaboration with commercial teams, data owners, and functions including Sales, Trade Marketing, Marketing, and Finance. Continuous learning, feedback seeking, and knowledge sharing are integral aspects of this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Map available market data sources and support the creation of a structured, documented, and scalable commercial database.
• Collect and consolidate data from internal systems, distributors, field teams, and approved external sources.
• Clean, reconcile, and validate datasets, identify gaps, duplicates, and inconsistencies, and coordinate corrective actions with data owners.
• Maintain data dictionaries, source definitions, naming conventions, refresh calendars, and basic quality controls.
• Build, automate, and maintain user-friendly reports and dashboards for sales, distribution, outlet coverage, route-to-market (RTM), and field execution key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Apply descriptive statistics, segmentation, and trend analysis to identify performance patterns, market gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Support simulations and business cases related to outlet coverage, resource allocation, promotions, incentives, and commercial initiatives.
• Support the evaluation of trade and consumer activities, including return on investment (ROI) where data is available, and provide practical insights to Sales, Trade Marketing, Marketing, and Finance stakeholders.
• Partner with business teams and data owners to improve data availability, processes, and analytical capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative field. A relevant master's degree is an advantage.
• One to three years of relevant experience in data analysis, data engineering, business intelligence, market research, or commercial analytics. Internship or graduate-program experience may be considered for strong junior profiles.
• Experience in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), retail, market research, distribution, or another data-rich commercial environment is an advantage.

Required Skills

• Strong foundations in data cleaning, validation, reconciliation, database structuring, and data-quality control.
• Working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) and advanced Microsoft Excel. Familiarity with Python or R for data preparation and statistical analysis is highly desirable.
• Experience with a business intelligence and visualization tool such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau, including dashboard design and recurring report automation.
• Understanding of relational data models, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) or Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) concepts, data dictionaries, and basic data-governance principles.
• Ability to apply descriptive statistics, segmentation, trend analysis, and hypothesis-based problem solving to commercial questions.
• Strong organization, prioritization, and project coordination skills, with attention to detail and confidentiality.

Work Type

This is a permanent position based in Jeddah.