Strategic Projects Analyst

Are you ready to take flight and be part of an amazing team in Birdman?

**About the Company**

Birdman has achieved an extraordinary 100% year-over-year growth for the past 7 years, making us a leader in the industry. Our mission is to make healthy, sustainable, and cruelty-free lifestyles accessible to all through our delicious and nutritious products. As the global plant-based food revolution gains momentum, we are looking for a dynamic CMI Analyst to join our exceptional team and contribute to building the next Mexican Unicorn

**The Role**:
Are you passionate about solving high-impact business problems, working across teams, and turning complex data into decisions that drive revenue and profit?

Do you thrive when you’re building models, designing strategies, and executing projects that shape the future of a fast-growing company?

At Birdman, we’re looking for a Strategic Projects Analyst to take on high-visibility, cross-functional projects that directly impact the company’s growth, profitability, and competitive positioning. From pricing architecture to margin recovery, from new product launches to cost optimization, you’ll work hand-in-hand with leadership to design strategies and make them happen.

This isn’t just a forecasting role. It’s a business impact role — where Excel, analytical rigor, and collaboration meet strategy and execution.

**Responsibilities**:
**Design and build robust financial models** for new products, markets, and strategic scenarios, enabling accurate estimation of opportunity size, expected profitability, and seamless integration into the **5-Year Plan** and **Year-To-Go (YTG)** forecasts.

**Consolidate and analyze monthly actual results** for revenue, costs, and expenses, ensuring detailed visibility by **channel, country, client, and product line**, while maintaining full alignment with the **ERP** and Birdman’s official financial definitions.

**Coordinate, automate, and optimize the financial forecasting process (YTG)**, ensuring methodological consistency, cross-functional alignment, and higher process efficiency across Finance, CMI, Marketing, and Leadership teams.

**Lead cross-functional strategic projects** that deliver a **direct impact on sales growth, margins, and operational efficiency**, such as: annual pricing analysis, packaging optimization, cost structure reviews, P&L design by client or channel, revenue/profitability improvement initiatives, and automation of dashboards or forecasting tools.

**Collaborate closely with CMI, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Sales** to integrate **market insights, competitive data, and internal performance metrics** into financial models that enable informed and actionable decision-making.

**Translate strategic opportunities into quantifiable scenarios** that allow Birdman’s leadership to **make fast, data-driven, and high-impact decisions** around sales, market share, and profitability growth.

**Ensure data quality, traceability, and consistency** across all deliverables by maintaining structured methodologies, clear documentation of assumptions, and clean, scalable models that enable reliable decision-making from the first delivery.

**Requirements**:
**Professional Experience**

**Education**
- Bachelor's degree completed in **Industrial Engineering, Finance, Economics, Actuarial Science, Business Administration**, or a related field.

**Experience**
- **2-3 years** in **financial planning, business intelligence, strategy, or internal consulting**, ideally in **CPG, retail, or e-commerce** industries.
- Hands-on experience **building financial projection models** (revenue, costs, profitability — forecast, YTG, business cases).
- Participation in **strategic projects** such as pricing, expansion, P&L design, or reporting automation.

**Technical Skills**
- **Advanced Excel** (core working tool): expertise in structured tables, linked formulas, detailed financial modeling, sensitivity analysis, and version control.
- **Power Query** proficiency to consolidate information from multiple sources (ERP, workfiles, internal collaborators, third-party reports).
- Strong ability to **build business models** and **P&Ls** by channel, client, or country, considering margins, discounts, costs, and glidepaths.
- **Data rigor**: ability to ensure traceability, maintain clean structures, and clearly document assumptions and logic.
- **Analytical thinking** with a strong **focus on financial outcomes**.
- **Adaptability** to manage **non-recurring projects** with changing objectives and multiple stakeholders.

**Core Competencies**
- Exceptional **attention to detail** and a commitment to delivering accurate information from the start.
- Ownership of deliverable **quality and consistency**.
- Structured thinking and ability to **synthesize complex information** into clear scenarios.
- Proactivity to **propose solutions** or automate recurring processes.
- Ability to **work autonomously** and manage accountability on high-impact pro