Business Analyst

Company Description
**CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER.** It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

**Location**:Via Filippo Turati, 4, 20121 Milano MI, Italy

**Job Description**:
**The Opportunity**:
Mattel Italy is hiring for a Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in the Italian Acceleration Plan, and who will be an outstanding addition to a growing insights team across EMEA. We're looking for an individual with passion for bringing our vast data streams together to surface insight that drives action for marketing, sales and the broader Italian business. You will provide meaningful analysis enabling teams to take fast data driven decisions, ensuring high quality execution and driving the business towards a more customer centric mindset.

**What Your Impact Will Be**:

- Be the go-to person for Insights in the Italian business.
- Drive actionable insight into the Italian Sales, Marketing and Commercial organisation to stimulate sales growth, maximise profit and market share and mitigate risk
- Mine and analyze large datasets, draw valid inferences and present them successfully to management. Ability to automate reports through Tableau would be desirable.
- Presenting insights to wide groups of stakeholders both internal, and external as required.
- Proactively interrogate external data and insights resources to contextualise Mattel performance and inform and challenge key stakeholders
- Support and Advise Marketing and Sales Teams with insight related to pricing, promotional mechanics, media performance, ranging and different consumption models.
- Create ad hoc reports and analysis supporting on going business with finding relevant information helpful building relevant insights

**Qualifications**:
**What We’re Looking For**:

- University degree [MSc] in Statistics, Business Administration, Economics, Finance or any related field
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a data analysis or similar role
- Strong proficiency in full Microsoft suite of products - High** Excel** skills essential
- Strong Proficiency with Sales Force and Power Pivot
- Strong experience in use of **Tableau** and Commerce Cloud (B2B/B2C) area would be advantageous
- International experience highly advantageous
- Fluency in English (written/spoken)
- Italian at a basic/intermediate level with desire to develop further

Additional Information
**What It’s Like to Work Here**:
We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower the next generation to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

- ** We collaborate**: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
- ** We innovate**: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
- ** We execute**: We are a performance driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best in class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

**Our Approach to Hybrid Work**

We embrace a hybrid work model to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where everyone can deliver on our shared purpose and realize their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with tech-enabled hybrid work, our focus is to provide flexibility while enabling collaboration for moments that matter.

**Who We Are**:
Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children’s and family entertainment franchises in the world. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO and MEGA, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming, music and live events. We operate in 35 locations and our products are available in more than 150 countri