Stage Business Analyst Retail, Fashion & Industry

Max Mara Fashion Group

An Italian House of Brands , Family Owned Since 1951 .
Passion, commitment and tradition have created a unique fashion style: today 10 Main Brands and more than 60 different Collections find common ground in quality, style and respect for the distinctive feature that make Max Mara Fashion Group one of the most famous worldwide.
Max Mara Fashion Group, with more than 40 companies and over 5,500 employees, operates in 105 countries.
Our ecosystem is made of more than 50 Departments, including Fashion Design, Marketing, Operations, Retail, Stores, ICT, Architecture Design, Economics, BI, etc. in an Holistic approach to our Customers and leveraging all the new digital competences.
Job Description

The Business Analyst is responsible for developing and monitoring market, performance and process analyses to support the setting and management of Transformation & Strategy Dept. activities geared toward the evolution and innovation of the company's business strategy and organizational model.
Its main responsibilities are:

1. ensure accurate business intelligence of market trends and competitor behavior through online and offlline sources/channels from an omnichannel perspective
2. monitor performance and process analysis in accordance with the company's revenue and profitability goals
3. support organizational changes with a view to continuous improvement and updating of business processes in order to achieve Business objectives through control actions, analysis and modeling

Supports the Manager through the creation of analysis frameworks that take into account the interests of its Stakeholders and the commercial needs and company profitability
Monitors direct and indirect competitors and analyze internal and external phenomena, with the aim of creating reference benchmarks for constant monitoring of the external market
Takes care of the synthesis of the data and prepares reports in order to support the management's strategic choices
Develops models and tools for the analysis, monitoring and implementation of corporate processes and procedures to support the organization and in coherence with the evolution of corporate strategies and related projects
Conducts feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyzes for the proposed initiatives both at an organizational and business development level
Monitors actual performance versus the plan, proposing and sharing with the Manager the implementation of corrective actions to maximize sales and profits

Additional Information

STEM Degrees (Engineering/Economics/Finance/Maths)
Highly quantitative and analitical mindset
Proficiency on English knowledge
High knowledge of key digital tools: Excel (advance), Power Point, Tableau (optional)
Result-oriented, proactive, able to conquer complexity, with a sound and creative problem solving mindset