Analyst, Reporting and Data II

at  Meijer

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

WHAT YOU BRING WITH YOU (QUALIFICATIONS):

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field or Relevant Experience. Master’s degree preferred.
• 2-5 years business experience in marketing analysis or analytics consulting leadership.
• Experience in an Advanced Analytics environment working with customer analytic systems in both SAS & Teradata (preferably at a large retailer).
• Experience working in a cross-functional teams focused on: Business/Financial Analysis, Promotional Analytics, Customer Analytics, Pricing, Merchandising, Media Analytics, etc.
• Experience developing analytic techniques such as: forecasting, predictive modeling, segmentation analysis, simulation modeling, data mining.
• Experience in customer-facing industry (traditional or online retailing, retail financial services, etc.).
• Multi-channel experience preferred – familiar with both in-store/branch and online analytics.
• Advanced and hands on experience using one or more of: SQL programming; SAS Base programming, SAS Macro programming, SAS Advanced programming, SAS Enterprise Miner; SAS Visual Analytics; Hadoop programming; SAS in-database and in-memory programming; MicroStrategy.
• Strong work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written.
• Experience developing communications and presenting to leadership.
• Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.

• Responsible for delivering material impact to the organization’s performance by: providing analytical support for Merchandising teams, identifying and executing against analytics-based business opportunities, and developing analytic approaches & reports that improve the efficiency of the Merchandising organization.
• Develop and apply advanced quantitative methods, data mining, modeling, and analytical tools to solve complex business problems across Merchandising.
• Partner and consult on report and tool solution designs that apply best in class analytics.
• Effectively communicate complex business analysis and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Keep customer at the center of analytic approach, analysis and solutions and partner with cross functional teams to drive customer centered focus at Meijer.
• Develop scorecards and partner with reporting teams to improve reporting effectiveness.
• Collaborate and build strong business relationships with Customer Marketing, Merchandising and Marketing teams to develop winning customer marketing solutions.
• Leverage disparate data sources for holistic understanding to solve complex business problems.