Leaf Planning Analyst

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world.

Your ‘day to day’

Pricing Strategy, Business Forecasting and Budgeting
Assist the business in achieving the optimal pricing strategy and volume forecast accuracy through Effectively monitoring and analyzing business KPIs and market trends leading to business insights, identifying risks and opportunities that can impact future growth, and develop proposed action plans to address these, monitoring and analyzing economic developments, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape. Perform analysis and simulations as per the ongoing business dynamics and perform cost monitoring to ensure 100% budget accuracy.

Performance Reporting and Executive Management Support
Support in monitoring and reporting business performance by providing business updates and other management reports as required. Provides periodic information necessary in monitoring progress and validation of projects/strategic plans that will serve as basis for business reviews with management.

Business Intelligence
Responsible for maintaining market and competitive information system and database. This involves regular collection, classification and update of various information as well as identifying and managing internal and external sources of market and competitive information. Responsible as well for building a database and repository of all information (market research and data statistics) and ensuring integrity of the data. Works with Leaf Planning team in analyzing the information gathered to provide relevant and actionable inputs to the evaluation and implementation of business planning and projects.

Business Partnering
Acts as a strategic partner of other functions (i.e. Leaf Buying, Sustainable Agriculture, Leaf processing) by providing data driven analyses and recommendations on business initiatives.

Business Orientation and Knowledge Sharing
Conduct business orientations to teams (i.e. new hires, OC/Regional/affiliate visitors) and collaborate with other teams and functions in building forecasting and planning capabilities.

Project Management
Manage specific projects from planning, execution, evaluation, and migration to business-as-usual activities.

Who we’re looking for

• University degree holder in management, business, economics, engineering, statistics or related course
• Minimum 2 years work experience in areas requiring high level of analysis, preferably Business Planning and Strategy, Financial Planning
• Strong analytical skills, stakeholder management, problem solving, abstract reasoning/thinking, and communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office with advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.

What we offer

Our success depends on our talented employees who come to work here every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.