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Marketing Analyst

The Marketing Analyst is an entry-level role designed for a recent graduate interested in building a career in Brand Management or Marketing within the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry. This role supports the marketing team by maintaining data, generating reports, and assisting in the analysis of brand, category, and retail performance.

Working closely with Brand Managers and Associate Brand Managers, this individual will help ensure the team has accurate, timely data to support decision-making while developing strong analytical and business fundamentals.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Management & Reporting
  • Maintain and update recurring reports on sales performance, distribution, and product metrics
  • Pull data from internal systems and syndicated sources (e.g., IRI, retailer portals)
  • Ensure accuracy and consistency of data used across the marketing team
  • Assist in building weekly, monthly, and ad hoc performance reports
• Basic Analytics & Insights Support
  • Support analysis of brand and category performance trends
  • Assist in identifying sales patterns, promotional impacts, and distribution changes
  • Help summarize findings into clear, simple insights for the team
  • Monitor competitor activity and track basic changes in market performance
• Marketing & Retail Execution Support
  • Support tracking of marketing programs (in-store promotions, digital campaigns)
  • Assist in gathering performance results for campaigns and new product launches
  • Help ensure product information is accurate across retailer platforms
  • Provide data support for customer presentations and internal meetings
• Innovation & Product Support
  • Assist in tracking new item performance post-launch
  • Support basic forecasting inputs using historical data
  • Help organize and maintain innovation trackers and timelines
• Cross-Functional Coordination
  • Partner with Brand, ABM, Sales, and Demand Planning teams to gather and validate data
  • Support preparation of presentations and business updates
  • Assist with ad hoc requests and special projects as needed

Key Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Economics, Analytics, or related field required
• Internship or academic experience in marketing, analytics, or CPG preferred
• Strong proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, basic formulas, data organization)
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Clear communication skills with ability to present basic findings
• Eagerness to learn and grow within a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable working with data and learning new systems/tools

Compensation: Starting at $65,000 Annually

About Us: Rana is an international Company present in over 60 countries, with a turnover close to $1.5 billion. Founded by Giovanni Rana in 1962, the Company has been led for over 35 years by Gian Luca Rana, CEO and pioneer of the internationalization project that has led the Group to become a leader worldwide in the production and marketing of fresh food products (filled and unfilled pasta, gnocchi, sauces and ready meals). Rana focuses its investments in the following areas: the creation of jobs (our workforce doubled in the last five years), the research and development, with the aim of offering Consumers delicious products made of the highest quality ingredients. The Rana Group has always made innovation its strength, both in the technological field (with the registration of dozens of product and process patents) and in communication.

As a family-owned Company, we are united by strong Values and the aspiration of building a better future for the next generations. Ethics and sustainability are the cornerstones of our sixty-two years of history, which have made our business healthy and constantly growing. Today, Rana has 8 factories (6 in Europe and 2 in the US) and is a large family of 3,500 People. The engines of our continued success will keep being innovation, internationalization, passion and constant search for excellence in everything we do.

Rana is committed to providing a workplace of diversity and inclusion. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, evaluating performance, or termination are made fairly. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates and selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.

NOTICE TO STAFFING FIRMS, AGENCIES AND EMPLOYMENT VENDORS:

Rana Meal Solutions and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters without a signed Fee Agreement in place AND before the resume is inputted into our applicant tracking system. Vendor solicitation should be directed to the Human Resource Department directly; as such, firms that circumvent the required compliant process will be barred from submitting candidates. In the absence of a signed fee agreement AND proper resume submission, RMS does not recognize any claim on a candidate by a third party, will consider unsolicited resumes the property of the company and reserves the right to engage and hire those candidates without any financial responsibility to the third-party vendor.