Business Analyst

Overview

Are you graduating and ready to kick-start your career in a global business? Join ZURU as a Business Analyst and play a hands‑on role in driving the success of our CPG brands across the world. You’ll dive deep into sales data, uncover insights, and help shape strategies that expand our retail footprint and fuel growth. This is your chance to learn from industry leaders, work on global projects, and make a real impact from day one.

About the Role

As a Business Analyst at ZURU Edge, you will play a critical role in driving the commercial success of our brands globally. You’ll support how we expand and execute the business – from analysing sales performance and identifying growth opportunities, to strengthening retailer partnerships, optimising commercial strategies and driving execution. Your ability to leverage data and insights will help refine our global sales approach, maximise profitability, and ensure we continue to outperform competitors.

Central to your success will be applying ZURU’s proven Business Development and commercial processes created by Co‑Founder Nick Mowbray. Combining this framework with your analytical capability, category knowledge, and entrepreneurial mindset, you’ll help shape the trajectory of the Edge business and deliver impact at scale.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Support Senior Account Management: Aid in the development and execution of commercial strategies for the baby and beauty brands.
  • Brand/Category Ownership: Manage the full lifecycle of assigned brands/categories, including strategy development, execution, and performance analysis.
  • Account Management: Oversee smaller accounts, fostering relationships and driving sales growth. Collaborative Execution: Work with cross‑functional teams to align on and achieve distribution goals, ensuring ZURU's strategic initiatives are successfully implemented.
  • Marketing Collaboration: Partner with the marketing team to develop and execute campaigns, product launches, and promotional activities to boost brand awareness and demand.
  • Continuous Improvement: Contribute to improving commercial processes to enhance performance and efficiency.
  • Supply chain excellence: deliver key inventory availability metrics that surpass customer expectations.
  • Team Culture: Promote ZURU's entrepreneurial culture, ensuring we put people first and maintain our innovative spirit as we grow.

What You'll Bring to ZURU

  • Commercial & business acumen, strategic thinking and problem‑solving
  • Ability to influence and motivate cross‑functional teams, while holding stakeholders accountable to deliver.
  • Strong communication & influencing skills, with the ability to translate messages across a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
  • A go‑getter with energy, creativity and determination to continuously improve and push boundaries. Strong solutions‑focused mindset, with high levels of resilience & passion.

Benefits

  • Culture for growth
  • Surrounded by an A‑player team
  • Competitive remuneration
  • Growth trajectory and opportunities for career development
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