Business Analyst Footwear

Business Analyst Footwear

Location: India

Coats is a world leader in thread manufacturing and structural components for apparel and footwear, as well as an innovative pioneer in performance materials. These critical solutions are used to create a wide range of products, including ones that provide safety and protection for people, data and the environment.

Trusted by the world's leading companies to deliver crucial, innovative, and sustainable solutions, we provide value-adding products including apparel, footwear and specialty threads.

With a proud heritage dating back more than 250 years and a spirit of evolution to constantly stay ahead of changing market needs, we have operations across 50 countries with a workforce of over 17,000, serving our customers worldwide.

Role Purpose:

The Business Analyst will be a strategic partner to our commercial team and be critical to providing the required insights for decision-making. You will move beyond standard reporting to provide high-level "predictive" insights that drive our top-line growth in existing and adjacent markets whilst improving our margins and driving the launch of new products to market. You will act as a primary advisor to the Brand and commercial sales teams.

What you will do (Key Responsibilities):

• Reporting: Partner with the Commercial team to provide customers with required intelligent reporting aligned to customer needs.
• Commercial Strategy & Forecasting: Develop financial models to build a bottoms up forecast of sales revenue and demand. Identify variances between actual performance and forecast.
• New product innovation: Partnering with commercial and operational functions to drive governance around the development and tracking of business cases underpinning new product creation through to commercialisation
• Pricing & Margin : Track product profitability in commercial pipeline and recommend pricing strategies to maximize margins.
• Market & Competitor Intelligence: Monitor industry shifts and competitor moves to identify risks and "white space" opportunities for the business.
• Data Storytelling: Translate complex datasets into actionable executive summaries and dashboards (Power BI, Tableau) for C-suite stakeholders.
• Forecasting: Lead the analysis of Commercial pipeline/ profitability. Develop and maintain pricing models to deliver business expectations.
• Customer reporting: Identify data required by customers in partnership with the commercial team and create dashboards to translate data into meaningful insights.
• Strategic Market Intelligence: Monitor global footwear trends (Brand & Tier1), including competitor capacity shifts and identify shifts like regulations, market patterns, to allow us to pivot our product portfolio in a timely manner.
• Innovation business partner: governance around financial business cases for new product development, engaging closely with commercial, marketing, innovation and operational leadership for well-thought out and robust financial and strategic inputs to support go/no-go decisions through the product creation cycle.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Present monthly Commercial dashboards to the Leadership Team.
• Digital Transformation: Lead the implementation or optimization of BI tools integrated with our ERP (SAP) to automate commercial reporting on a real-time basis.

Who you are (Requirements):

• Experience 5+ years in a Commercial/Business Analysis role, ideally within Manufacturing
• Education Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Data Science
• Technical Depth Mastery of SQL, Advanced Excel (VBA/Power Query), and ERP systems Experience with Predictive Modelling
• Financial Literacy Deep understanding of P&L, Gross Margin analysis, and Landed Costing
• Soft Skills Stakeholder management; commercial acumen; high-impact, presentation skills; ability to challenge senior leadership with data.

What will set you apart (Nice to Have):

• Manufacturing industry experience

At Coats Group, we are committed to innovation, excellence, and fostering a diverse and collaborative environment where every team member can thrive. If you are passionate about making an impact in the textile industry and eager to join a global leader with a rich heritage and a forward-thinking approach, we invite you to take the next step in your career with us.

Apply now to be part of our dynamic team and help shape the future of textiles.