Advanced Analyst II

Meijer•Grand Rapids, MI

19h•Onsite

About The Position

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! This position is an experienced role within Meijer’s Data Science & Analytics organization. The Data Science & Analytics teams bring together a highly technical skillset, rooted in statistics and machine learning, with strong communication and collaboration capabilities to serve and partner with business areas across the enterprise. The Advanced Analyst II role contributes to these efforts by developing and applying advanced analytic and machine learning solutions, proactively collaborating with and anticipating business needs. This role directly supports data-driven actions taken across the business to have a positive impact on sales, margin, and profit performance, as well as enriching the lives of the communities we serve.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field or Relevant Experience.
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 with Power BI and DAX for building dynamic, interactive dashboards.
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.).
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.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Multi-channel experience preferred – familiar with both in-store/branch and online analytics.

Responsibilities

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.