Senior Marketing Analytics Partner
Job Description
The Role: As a Senior Analytics Partner, you will be responsible for delivering data-driven and actionable recommendations through our category-level insights process to drive business decisions. The ideal candidate has the ability to "tell a story" with their analysis, built across a variety of data-sources (transactional, market, competitor, and customer) to help stakeholders achieve their business objectives. With a strong analytical skillset, relevant experience (category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, etc), and knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix you will thrive in this role that is the ideal combination of art and science.
The Team: This role will join our Category, Assortment, and Space Analytics team; specifically the Category pillar. We’re a team that directly supports the merchandising organization and categories to offer our customers the best possible assortment in our stores through data-driven insights and decision-making.
Why Whole Foods Market:
Whole Foods Market is the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket retailer and wellness company. Our philosophy is to satisfy and delight our customers - and to support Team Member happiness, growth and excellence. Why? We believe that each and every team member is a valued contributor to our mission. In our partnership with Amazon, we are re-inventing the grocery industry through innovative advancements like Just Walk Out and Dash Cart technologies and a service-minded approach.
Responsibilities:
- Utilizes advanced analytical methods to identify patterns, relationships, and trends across multiple data sources. Synthesizes information to construct a data-driven narrative with business-driving recommendations that can be understood and actioned-upon by a broad audience.
- Explains complex data and analytical approaches in simple terms that connect results with merchandising, customer, competitive, and marketing problems.
- Supports category-level insights, ad-hocs, and reports as needed.
- Collaborates with cross-functional partners across the analytics organization (assortment analytics, pricing, promotion, etc) and acts as project manager to translate stakeholder business questions into analyses that inform business decisions and align with business objectives.
Skills:
- Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis.
- Strong ability to translate data into actionable analytical insights which drive business decisions.
- Understands customer, market, and industry trends and emerging challenges.
- Demonstrates strong knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix, supply base, and retail operations.
- Communicates structured information in a clear, concise, and organized fashion. Tailors communication approach to specific situations and audiences.
- Able to effectively lead meetings, present information, and respond to questions in both one-on-one situations and group meetings.
- Advanced ability to plan, estimate, organize, and lead multiple projects.
- Collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional Team Members at various levels of the organization to achieve business objectives by required deadlines.
- Builds trust and nurtures relationships with senior-level stakeholders and leaders.
- Impacts overall team effectiveness.
- May provide informal support to less experienced Team Members.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., analytics, statistics, applied mathematics, or computer science). Graduate degree, a plus. Experience in the Grocery / CPG business, a plus.
- 3-5 years of relevant experience (e.g. analytics, category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, or related fields).
- Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis. Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Tableau, competitive databases (Nielsen).
At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.Whole Foods Market works with job sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and ZipRecruiter to promote opportunities at our company. Please be aware that other career sites may not be accurate or up to date and may even be fraudulent. We encourage and recommend all candidates to apply via our site.
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