Sr Analyst, Strategic Planning & Insights

Job Description Job Purpose The Sr Analyst, Strategic Planning & Insights will own, analyze and integrate large internal and external datasets from different sources to support data driven decision making across commercial strategy and sales execution. The Sr Analyst will own responsibility over modeling sophisticated retail problems, discovering actionable insights and surfacing sales enablement opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques. The candidate should have extended business knowledge as well as technical abilities. The Sr. Analyst should be able to translate business critical metrics into data requirements then either develop or partner with Business Intelligence to generate scalable final data sets and reporting outputs. This role partners closely with business leadership, commercial teams, and data engineering groups to transform and communicate complex data into impactful business recommendations and support automation and process optimization. Essential Functions & Responsibilities Advance data analysis skills, programming, & data engineering Lead sales analytics projects with key partners from the Commercial Analytics Platform (CAP), Business Units (BU) and Field Sales to provide tools and insights to all leadership teams Integration of information across groups and projects and not siloed to one team or on [... source excerpt omitted ...] understand business questions/objectives, identify the information currently available, clearly define the gaps and articulate a proposed methodology and plan to deliver on these requirements Distill modelling and analysis findings into key concrete insights and clearly communicate results through clear and effective storytelling Do exploratory data analysis and navigate large dataset to come out with broad conclusions Use algorithms and programming to efficiently go through large datasets and apply treatments, filters and conditions to the data Create meaningful data visualizations that communicate findings and relate them back to insights that generate business impact Partner [... source excerpt omitted ...] solving and idea leadership Strong drive for achieving results Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision Experience in partnering with business owners to understand requirements, develop project timelines, and deliver data sets or analysis on time Experience with cross-functional analytics initiatives that influence decision making across business stakeholders and business units Good interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills Ability to influence multi-functional team members Deep Technical and Systems orientation Motivated self-starter who can effectively work under pressure and manage multiple priorities Strong verbal/written communication & data skill