Analyst, Market Insights & Analytics

Ulta Beauty, Inc.•Bolingbrook, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Analyst, Market Insights & Analytics supports the development of a timely, accurate, and consistent view of market, competitive, and category performance across Ulta Beauty. Working with the Senior Manager, this role owns foundational data preparation, validation, and recurring reporting across internal and syndicated data sources, ensuring analyses are reliable and ready for business interpretation. The Analyst will integrate and reconcile data across providers, maintain recurring market and competitive reporting, support market tests and measurement, and help standardize and automate dashboards and analytical processes. The role will also translate data into clear initial findings and visualizations, enabling senior team members to focus on strategic implications, recommendations, and stakeholder leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, analytics, statistics, finance, or a related field; or equivalent experience
1-3 years of relevant experience in market, retail, competitive, business intelligence, or related analytics
Advanced Excel and proficient PowerPoint skills
Experience cleaning, reconciling, and validating multiple data sources
Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, attention to detail, and curiosity to question anomalies
Ability to turn quantitative information into clear takeaways, charts, and presentations
Proactive, organized, accountable, and collaborative; able to manage priorities and deadlines

Nice To Haves

Tableau, Power BI, or SQL experience is a plus
Syndicated market data experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Prepare and refresh weekly, monthly, and quarterly market, competitive, and category reporting across key metrics including share, rank, growth, innovation, and promotion
Extract, clean, reconcile, and validate data from internal and external sources, identifying anomalies and coordinating resolution
Conduct initial analyses to surface trends, patterns, risks, and whitespace opportunities for further interpretation and deeper investigation
Support market tests and measurement by organizing inputs, maintaining KPI trackers, and conducting pre- and post-analysis under senior guidance
Create clear charts, summaries, and draft insights for market pulse updates, category reviews, strategic analyses, and executive materials
Integrate internal performance data with external market and consumer data to build consistent and complete views of business performance
Maintain standardized definitions, templates, dashboards, and methodologies across recurring analyses to ensure accuracy and comparability
Partner with Merchandising, Digital, Pricing, FP&A, Analytics, Merchandising Planning & Inventory, Consumer Insights, and Strategy on prioritized analytical questions
Translate analyses into concise takeaways and visualizations, clearly documenting data sources, assumptions, and limitations
Coordinate inputs, timelines, and follow-up with partners to keep analytical workstreams moving and deliverables on track
Support data quality and governance across market data providers, including Circana, NielsenIQ, and Spate, by monitoring issues and coordinating resolution
Maintain data dictionaries, source documentation, access records, refresh calendars, and vendor issue logs
Support evaluation and onboarding of new data sources and tools by documenting requirements, use cases, and data-quality considerations
Standardize and automate recurring reports and dashboards to reduce manual work and improve speed, consistency, and scalability
Partner with Analytics and Technology teams to test enhancements and maintain reliable data refreshes and self-service tools
Identify process improvements and create clear documentation and user guidance that strengthen analytical consistency