📊 Senior Data Analyst

At kencko, we’re on a mission to make it easier for everyone to reach their 5-a-day servings of fruits and veggies. We offer convenient, high-quality, and nutritious plant-based products—from smoothies and oats to protein drinks and fruit snacks—that help people live healthier while minimizing food waste and environmental impact.

Are you excited by the idea of owning the full company sales forecast, shaping data strategy, and turning complex datasets into sharp, actionable insights? We’re looking for a Senior Data Analyst who’s equal parts analytical thinker, structured builder, and cross-functional collaborator — someone ready to take the lead on one of the company’s most critical processes.

If you love clean data, clear logic, and meaningful impact, keep reading. 🚀

Join us in building a smarter way to nourish both people and the planet.

🌟 About the Role

As our Data Analyst, you will own and lead the end-to-end sales forecasting process, ensuring accuracy, alignment, and strong communication with all internal stakeholders. You will build and maintain data models, pipelines and dashboards, drive analytical deep dives across the business, and act as the central point of truth for sales expectations and trends.

You’ll work closely with Sales, Finance, Operations and Leadership — influencing decision-making at the highest level and continually improving our forecasting systems, tools and data structure.

🎯 What You’ll Do

🔮 Forecasting — Your Core Mission

• Lead the full monthly sales forecasting cycle, from data gathering to stakeholder alignment.
• Maintain and improve forecasting models using SQL (and Python as a plus).
• Produce clear forecast updates with risks, opportunities and required actions.
• Monitor accuracy and identify root causes of variances.
• Support the company’s forecasting process for both the U.S. and European markets, including participating in cross-regional alignment meetings when required.
  

📈 Analytics & Insights

• Extract and clean data from multiple sources (SQL, BigQuery, CSVs, Shopify, NetSuite).
• Deliver analyses for Finance, Sales, Operations and DTC performance.
• Ensure data quality, transparency and reproducibility.

📊 Dashboards & Reporting

• Build and maintain dashboards (SQL + dbt + BI tools).
• Improve Google Sheets/Excel tools and automation.
• Translate complex data into sharp, actionable insights.
  

🛠 Data Engineering & Governance

• Build and maintain data pipelines with SQL & dbt.
• Ensure version control with GitHub and proper documentation.
• Maintain high data quality and consistency.
  

🤝 Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Sales, Finance, Operations and Leadership.
• Communicate insights clearly and proactively highlight risks and opportunities.
• Serve as the central coordinator for the forecasting process

🧠 What You Bring

🎓 Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Computer Science — or equivalent professional experience in Data/BI.

💼 Professional Experience

• 5–10 years of experience in data analysis, BI, analytics or related functions.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL, dbt, dashboard/reporting tools, and GitHub for version control.
• Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel.
• Must be comfortable working with U.S. time zones, as part of the forecast cycle and stakeholder alignment.

⭐ Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience with forecasting, Python, BigQuery, Shopify, NetSuite, Fivetran or BI tools (Looker, PowerBI, Hex, Omni…).
• Understanding of basic financial concepts and simple statistical models.
  

🛠 Technical & Soft Skills

• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead stakeholder meetings.
• The candidate must be available to occasionally attend later alignment meetings scheduled in U.S. hours, collaborating closely with team members based in both the U.S. and the EU.
• Strong ownership, autonomy and attention to detail.
• Critical thinking and an analytical mindset.
• Great organizational and prioritization skills.
• Proactivity in improving processes and solving problems.
• Ability to turn data into clear business actions and storytelling.

🗣️ Language Skills

• Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken).

🎁 What We Offer

• Permanent contract;
• Private health insurance, company pays 100% premium for employee;
• 25 days of paid time off per year;
• 9.60€ per day for a meal allowance;
• A casual, dynamic, ambitious, and fun work environment;
• Free nutrition consults;
• Steep discount on kencko products; and
• Be part of a B-Corp team that is shaking-up the nutrition industry for the better.

ℹ️ Details

Cabra Figa, Rio de Mouro (Hybrid)

Reporting to: Chief Financial Officer

⚡ Final Note

We have urgency in filling this role — we’re looking for someone ready to jump in and take ownership quickly.

💬 How to Apply

Ready to lead the forecasting engine of a fast-growing food-tech brand? Send us your application and let’s build something great together! 🌎📈