The Role
As a Business Analyst, you'll analyze sales data, identify growth opportunities, support account management, optimize commercial strategies, and collaborate with teams to drive brand performance and effectiveness.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you graduating and ready to kick-start your career in a global business? Join ZURU as a Business Analyst and play a hands-on role in driving the success of our CPG brands across the world. You’ll dive deep into sales data, uncover insights, and help shape strategies that expand our retail footprint and fuel growth. This is your chance to learn from industry leaders, work on global projects, and make a real impact from day one.
About ZURU
ZURU is on a mission to disrupt industries, challenge the status quo, and catalyse change through radical innovation and advances in automation. This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; and ZURU Edge is pioneering new-generation consumer goods brands to better serve modern consumers.
Founded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has quickly grown to a team of over 5,000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations.
One of the largest toy companies in the world, our globally recognized and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns, and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, and Gumi Yum Surprise.
About the Role
As a Business Analyst at ZURU Edge, you will play a critical role in driving the commercial success of our brands globally. You’ll support how we expand and execute the business - from analysing sales performance and identifying growth opportunities, to strengthening retailer partnerships, optimising commercial strategies and driving execution. Your ability to leverage data and insights will help refine our global sales approach, maximise profitability, and ensure we continue to outperform competitors.
Central to your success will be applying ZURU’s proven Business Development and commercial processes created by Co-Founder Nick Mowbray. Combining this framework with your analytical capability, category knowledge, and entrepreneurial mindset, you’ll help shape the trajectory of the Edge business and deliver impact at scale.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Support Senior Account Management: Aid in the development and execution of commercial strategies for the baby and beauty brands.
- Brand/ Category Ownership: Manage the full lifecycle of assigned brands/ categories, including strategy development, execution, and performance analysis.
- Account Management: Oversee smaller accounts, fostering relationships and driving sales growth. Collaborative Execution: Work with cross-functional teams to align on and achieve distribution goals, ensuring ZURU's strategic initiatives are successfully implemented.
- Marketing Collaboration: Partner with the marketing team to develop and execute campaigns, product launches, and promotional activities to boost brand awareness and demand.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to improving commercial processes to enhance performance and efficiency.
- Supply chain excellence: deliver key inventory availability metrics that surpass customer expectations.
- Team Culture: Promote ZURU's entrepreneurial culture, ensuring we put people first and maintain our innovative spirit as we grow.
What You'll Bring to ZURU
- Commercial & business acumen, strategic thinking and problem-solving
- Must demonstrate ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams, while holding stakeholders accountable to deliver.
- Strong communication & influencing skills, with the ability to translate messages across a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- A go-getter with energy, creativity and determination to continuously improve and push boundaries. Strong solutions-focussed mindset, with high levels of resilience & passion.
LIFE@ZURU
ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).
At ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.
At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.
Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com.
WHAT WE OFFER
· 🌱 Culture for Growth
· 💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team
· 💰 Competitive Remuneration
ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀
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The Company
What We Do
ZURU is a disruptive and award-winning company that designs, manufactures and markets innovative toys and consumer products.
Inspired by kids and imaginative play, ZURU is one of the fastest growing toy companies in the world and is known for their agility, creativity and new-age manufacturing techniques.
The company that started in New Zealand now employs more than 5,000 staff across 18 offices, produces 600,000 toys a day and distributes to most major retailers in over 120 countries.
ZURU has delighted millions of families all over the world with brands such as Bunch O Balloons™, X-Shot™, Rainbocorns™, Robo Alive™, Smashers™, 5 Surprise™ and Metal Machines™ as well as through partnerships with entertainment properties, including Nickelodeon, Disney, Universal Studios and DreamWorks.
With a strong commitment to the community, ZURU supports Captivating International, local China orphanages and also student development programs in Asia and in New Zealand.
ZURU will continue to pave new ways for kids to play and focuses on reimagining what this looks like every day.
