Retail Business Analytics Leader

Role Overview

• Leads Channel Analytics Understanding of the market through analytics, and emerging technology innovation.
• Consult and deliver retail account management analytics optimizing price, volume, and mix across customers, regions, and product lines (PVM).
• Key player to prepare the analytics and strategy input for retail Product Line Reviews
• Lead the analysis of projects by working closely with the business units and cross-functional leadership.
• Prepares presentations for executives that follow a logically reasoned, data supported approach.
• Develop key metrics for channel performance including service, share, financial performance and competitive landscape
• Continue the execution of the channel’s data analytics roadmap as well as develop and execute the overall channel insights strategy
• Utilizes data available both internally and externally to help drive to a world class supply chain
• Through an expanded use of analytics and integration, continuously builds a deep understanding of our customers and the marketplace, helps develop strategies to generate growth opportunities, local requirements to bring differential value to customers and outperform competitors.
• Identifies internal and external resource needs to ensure customer plans are executed fully
• Understand and educate key internal stakeholders on channel dynamics
• Support 3rd party analytics contracts and negotiation strategies with their leader and sourcing.
• Partner with GIS team to ensure the data being used is accurate, consistent, and up-to-date.
• Ensure that data handling practices comply with relevant regulations and company policies.
• Help prioritize analytics projects based on business needs and strategic goals.
• Exemplifies thought leadership across the retail organization
• Works across the Retail team to identify areas opportunities and drive productivity and process improvement across the team.
• Understands overall business strategies; takes initiative in creating and leading team to foster growth across the channel
• Partners with IT business partners to identify next generation investments and system capabilities
• Drives new and different ideas, innovation, collaboration across multiple areas of business, and participates in business leadership level discussion
• Works with the Retail leadership team to understand strategy and identify key opportunities to invest resources into
• Thoroughly understands business operations, from forecasting, to supply chain, marketing, to market results, and how decisions impact overall business outcomes.
• Evaluate value creation and service improvement opportunities both internally and externally creating differentiation versus our competition.
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent; assess the capabilities required to execute the business analytics needs across the team
• Is accountable to allocate resources to the priorities identified to drive the business strategy.
• Create an environment of talent growth, empowerment, and inclusion where talent is developed and led through effective performance management and evaluation systems.
• Engage in personal development plan and meaningful goals setting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field; MBA preferred
• 7+ years of relevant experience with an emphasis on sales, supply chain, analytics and working across multiple functions within an enterprise
• At least 2+ years of people leadership experience
• Strong business and financial acumen, with demonstrated analytical ability
• Experience an ability to develop, synthesis, and deliver analytic via multiple avenues of reporting, i.e.. PowerBI, Pivot Tables, etc.
• Ability to travel 15% of the time

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities