Associate, Strategy & Value Creation

Worldwide Golf•Santa Ana, CA

1d•$80,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate, Strategy & Value Creation provides hands-on analytical support across Worldwide Golf, Big 5 Sporting Goods, and enterprise-wide priorities. This cross-functional role spans strategy, operations, merchandising, supply chain, and marketing, turning data into practical decisions, tools, and process improvements. The Associate builds analyses, dashboards, and decision rules, investigates operational problems to identify root causes, and helps carry recommendations through implementation. The position is suited to an analytically strong early-career candidate who is curious, self-directed, comfortable with imperfect data, and eager to own workstreams in a lean, entrepreneurial environment. The role reports to the Director of Strategy and works closely with business leaders across both companies, as well as the CFO and Chief Strategy Officer, CEO, and other senior executives. It is fully onsite at Worldwide Golf Headquarters in Santa Ana, California, with frequent travel to Big 5 Headquarters in El Segundo, the Big 5 Distribution Center in Riverside, and Big 5 stores. The position offers broad exposure to strategy, operations, merchandising, and supply chain across two retail businesses, with ownership from day one.

Requirements

1–3 years of experience in consulting, strategy, retail, digital, supply chain, business, or data analytics.
Advanced proficiency in Excel.
Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate analyses and implementations.
Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous problems, identify root causes, and quantify impact.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings to senior leaders.
Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and take full ownership of deliverables.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related quantitative field.

Nice To Haves

Experience with SQL and a business intelligence tool such as Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud.
Python or R experience for analyses.
Experience in retail, distribution or logistics, merchandise planning, or inventory management analysis.

Responsibilities

Analyze store, distribution center, and inventory data to improve product and freight movement and support retail operations initiatives.
Support store-to-store transfer rules, freight and inventory balancing, and distribution center productivity.
Build and maintain performance dashboards, initially focused on distribution center KPIs and enterprise-wide spend visibility.
Define metrics, automate data feeds where possible, and ensure reporting is accurate, trusted, and used.
Support merchandising planning and markdown decisions.
Provide ecommerce and marketing analyses and recommendations to improve customer lifetime value, traffic, conversion, and performance, including loyalty and omnichannel operations.
Track enterprise value-creation initiatives, size opportunities, and maintain the analytical foundation for operating reviews.
Map manual processes and partner with business leaders to develop and roll out AI-enabled tools that accelerate work and improve decision-making.
Identify, size, and prioritize AI and process-automation opportunities across the business.
Respond to fast-turn analytical requests from senior leaders and synthesize findings into concise materials and recommendations for executive decisions.