About this role
Key Responsibilities
1. Sales Performance Monitoring & Reporting
- Prepare daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual business performance reports.
- Track achievement against budget, target, outlook, and previous year performance.
- Monitor primary sales, secondary sales, tertiary sales, and collection performance.
- Provide branch-wise, territory-wise, state-wise, dealer-wise, and channel-wise analysis.
- Publish daily sales flash reports and management dashboards.
- Highlight gaps against targets along with recovery opportunities.
- Prepare YTD, MTD, QTD, and LY comparison reports.
- Conduct trend analysis and identify business growth or decline patterns.
Key Deliverables
- Daily Sales MIS
- Weekly Business Review (WBR)
- Monthly Business Review (MBR)
- Zonal Performance Dashboard
- Plan vs Achievement Analysis
2. Channel Performance Analytics
Monitor and analyze performance across all channels including:
- General Trade (GT)
- Modern Trade (MT)
- Institutional Business
- Hypermarket
- LFS Chains
- Franchisee Stores
- Distribution Channel
- Exclusive Brand Outlets (EBO)
Responsibilities
- Track channel contribution and profitability.
- Analyze channel growth trends.
- Identify underperforming accounts/channels.
- Monitor channel productivity and business velocity.
- Prepare channel scorecards and ranking reports.
3. Branch Performance Management
- Track business performance across all branches within the zone.
- Prepare branch scorecards against target.
- Monitor execution of branch outlook commitments.
- Identify branches requiring intervention.
- Conduct variance analysis between forecast and actual achievement.
- Support Zonal Head in branch reviews and performance discussions.
Reports
- Branch Ranking Report
- Branch Outlook Accuracy Report
- Recovery Tracking Dashboard
- Branch Productivity Analysis
Key KPIs
- Forecast Accuracy
- Outlook Reliability
- Target Coverage Ratio
4. Inventory & Supply Chain Tracking
- Monitor inventory across warehouses, branches, distributors, and key accounts.
- Track stock ageing and liquidation requirements.
- Identify slow-moving and non-moving inventory.
- Monitor stock availability against sales demand.
- Analyze fill rate and service levels.
Deliverables
- Inventory Ageing Report
- Stock Health Dashboard
- Liquidation Tracker
- Fill Rate Analysis
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5. Data Validation & Governance
- Ensure accuracy of all business reports.
- Validate sales and inventory data from system.
- Reconcile data discrepancies.
- Maintain master databases.
- Establish reporting SOPs and controls.
Responsibilities
- Data cleansing
- Error correction
- System validation
- Business data integrity management
6. Management Dashboard Development
- Create automated dashboards using Power BI, Excel, SQL, or other BI tools.
- Improve reporting efficiency through automation.
- Develop interactive KPI dashboards.
- Reduce manual reporting efforts.
Tools
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI
- SQL
- SAP / ERP Systems
- Power Query
- Power Pivot
- VBA (Preferred)
7. Business Review Support
Support Zonal Head during:
- Weekly reviews
- Monthly business reviews
- Quarterly business reviews
- Annual operating plan discussions
Responsibilities
- Prepare review decks.
- Generate insights and commentary.
- Highlight risks and opportunities.
- Recommend corrective actions based on data.
- Graduate in Commerce/Statistics/Mathematics/Economics
- MBA (Preferred)
- Specialization in Analytics, Finance, or Operations preferred
Experience
MIS Executive
- 5-8 years of Sales MIS experience
MIS Manager
- 5-8 years of experience in Sales Analytics, Business Planning, or Commercial Analytics
Preferred Industry Experience
- Consumer Durables
- Luggage Industry
- FMCG
- Retail
- Distribution-based businesses
Technical Skills
Advanced Excel
- Pivot Tables
- Power Query
- Power Pivot
- Advanced Formulas
- Dashboards
Analytics Tools
- Power BI
- Tableau (Preferred)
- SQL
ERP Knowledge (Preferred)
- SAP
- Oracle
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Tally (Basic awareness)
Behavioural Competencies
- Strong analytical mindset
- High attention to detail
- Business acumen
- Result orientation
- Problem-solving ability
- Presentation skills
- Stakeholder management
- Data storytelling capability
- Ability to work under pressure
- Strong ownership and accountability
Success Criteria for the Role
A successful Zonal MIS professional should:
- Provide management with actionable business insights rather than only reports.
- Identify emerging risks before they impact achievement.
- Improve forecast and outlook accuracy.
- Drive data-based decision making across branches and channels.
- Create visibility on opportunities, gaps, and recovery actions.
- Continuously automate and enhance reporting processes.
- Become the single source of truth for zonal business performance and analytics.