Position: Distribution Monitoring Support Analyst
Company: Global IT Support
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**About the client:**
Online marketplaces and webshops are now the greatest means for modern business expansion. As someone who wants to access the widest consumer base possible, offering your products at a local level will greatly limit your sales potential. Access to online marketplaces and webshops is now a must if you want to increase your sales volume. Consequentially, users are now becoming experts in the use and manipulation of these online instruments and can push their sales to extents before unimaginable. They are now also experts in hiding themselves from the watchful eye of brand owners. This is now becoming an increasing concern as brand owners are now experiencing a dilution in their capacity to monitor the distribution of their products and the behavior of their business partners in the online scene. Ultimately seeing the expansion of grey market sales to the detriment of authorized channel sales. We have developed an advanced software solution that allows our Analysts to easily detect and monitor the distribution channels on behalf of brands who are looking to take back control of their distribution channels.

**Requirements:**
Bachelor’s degree in law, business and/or in any quantitative data-driven subject (such as sciences, economics, mathematics, computer science). Applications with alternative education backgrounds will also be accepted if they match the below criteria;
Affinity with law and business principles regulating licensing – distribution agreements and anti-competitive behavior;
Adept at data visualization;
Adept at recognizing patterns, trends, and classifications;
Interest in conceptualization and implementation of streamlined data models and processes;
Interest in supply chain management;
Interest in post-sale product lifecycle monitoring and distribution management;
Precision in executing given tasks and that can apply critical thinking when solving day-to-day problems;
Basic understanding or interest in Intellectual Property;
Ability to manage ingestion, transformation, analysis, and communication of data.

**Responsibilities:**
Learn how to use modern tools to gather online data at your will;
Respond to analysts’ requests: day-to-day responsible for supporting analyst;
Simplified reports/activities for the assigned clients, including ad hoc requests (e.g. monitor a platform, tagging, simple deliverables);
Perform audits on online marketplaces, websites, and social media to ensure compliance of our client’s selective distribution monitoring systems;
Receive continuous updates on how to improve work-related activities;
Stay up to date with the market trends and techniques, for ex., new platforms or new ways to collect data and elaborate data.

**Your day-to-day life with the team:**
Your day will consist of performing support tasks in regard to the monitoring of your client’s grey market environment by extracting, transforming, and interpreting datasets in order to generate actionable insights. You will be part of a vibrant and energetic team that constantly seeks new ways of generating intelligence. You will be asked to think on your feet and be flexible in determining new ways that we can improve the Distribution Monitoring cycle of client’s using big data and supply chain knowledge.
We strongly believe in keeping all employees up to date with the latest happenings in the company.
What’s more, we know that not everyone is a morning person, so we encourage flexible hours that suit your preferred working style.

**Why work as a Distribution Monitoring Support Analyst?:**
As a Distribution Monitoring Support Analyst, you will be assisting our Distribution Monitoring Analysts in protecting your Client`s brands by using big data in a distribution-centric manner.
To achieve this, you will use innovative and strategic methods to analyze networks and identify connections between multiple data points. You will utilize methods such as price deviation analytics, import/export data reports, and account matching capabilities to identify misbehaving sellers and provide a better overview of the Grey Market environment for their products. You will play a crucial role in the formulation and implementation of the client’s strategy when it comes to distribution monitoring. You will audit online content such as marketplaces, websites, and social media to confirm the target's compliance with our Client’s Selective Distribution systems. You will collect and organize useful evidence and report your findings to your team.
The Distribution Monitoring team slices through the data in order to inform client strategy and helps to make the world a little smaller for those clients overwhelmed and underequipped to deal with the masses of information to be found on the internet and in physical form.