Quarterly Sales Review Dashboard
Every growing Indian consumer brand ends up in the same meeting once a quarter: the founder, the sales head and four zone managers in a room, arguing from four different spreadsheets. Somebody says the south is doing badly, somebody else says the south is fine and it is the marketplace channel that collapsed, and nobody can settle it because there is no single agreed view of the numbers. The quarterly business review is where growth decisions actually get made, and the person who can build the one view everyone trusts quietly becomes the most useful person in the room.
The intern builds that view for Mitti Mug, a fictional Jaipur brand selling terracotta drinkware and cookware through its own website, marketplaces and retail distributors. They derive realistic seasonality from published quarterly results of listed consumer companies, construct a documented 1,200-row four-quarter sales dataset in excel, then build a filterable dashboard of six panels driven entirely by pivot tables and SUMIFS, write a metric dictionary that pins down every definition, and turn the whole thing into a 10-slide quarterly review in powerpoint that ends with three specific decisions the leadership team is asked to take.
Completing the project teaches sales analytics, dashboard design, metric definition discipline, and the harder skill of turning a table of numbers into a recommendation someone can act on. Business analyst, sales operations and category management interviews almost always test exactly this, and a dashboard the intern can open and filter live in front of an interviewer carries far more weight than a line on a resume.
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