Data and Insights Analyst

Third•Minneapolis, MN

22h•Remote

About The Position

The Data and Insights Analyst owns retail client reporting and halo measurement at Third, a modern-commerce growth company that helps brands turn emerging platforms into sales channels. The role builds and shapes client and internal dashboards and reports, analyzes performance data to assess how TikTok Shop and social activity affect sales at brick-and-mortar retail, Amazon, and brand sites, and works between the Strategy and Client Success teams. The analyst provides Client Success with reliable metrics and helps Strategy interpret what the numbers mean, presenting findings internally and externally as needed. The analyst builds and maintains retail client dashboards, owns weekly and monthly reporting, automates recurring work, establishes benchmarks, and turns performance data into actionable recommendations. The role also measures retail and social halo, designs tests to isolate sales lift, combines retailer, marketplace, search, and TikTok data, and develops a repeatable measurement framework for pitches, quarterly reviews, and retailer conversations. Additional work includes reconciling data sources, documenting metric definitions, and supporting new business with category sizing and competitive analysis. This is a USA-based remote role. Compensation is a base salary of $75,000–$85,000 annually. The company offers comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, flexible PTO, and a remote-first work environment with periodic team gatherings.

Requirements

Experience in marketing analytics, retail analytics, media analytics, or commerce insights.
Hands-on work experience with retail data, including POS data, retailer portals, and syndicated sales data.
Experience measuring incrementality or lift, including designing and running a test and explaining the result to a client.
Strong SQL and spreadsheet skills.
Python or R experience for analysis.
Dashboard experience using Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools.
Comfort with social platform data, including TikTok, Meta, and YouTube analytics.
Clear writing and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate findings to a brand VP in an easily understood slide.
Ability to manage several client accounts at once and meet reporting deadlines.
Curiosity and an analytical approach to identifying correlations in data.

Nice To Haves

Agency experience.
TikTok Shop experience on the brand, agency, or platform side.
Retail media experience with Walmart Connect, Roundel, or Amazon Ads.
Marketing mix modeling experience or experience feeding test results into an MMM.
CPG category experience.
Experience with AI tools for analysis and report automation.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain retail client dashboards covering TikTok Shop GMV, affiliate performance, sample funnels, content velocity, live shopping, and GMV Max paid media.
Own weekly and monthly reporting cadences and automate recurring reporting tasks.
Set benchmarks for each client against its own history, its category, and TikTok Shop overall.
Turn performance data into a concise set of actionable recommendations.
Serve as the subject-matter expert for halo measurement, communicate results clearly, and respond to data questions.
Measure how TikTok Shop and social activity affect sales at brick-and-mortar retail, on Amazon, and on DTC sites.
Design tests to isolate sales lift, including geo holdouts, matched markets, pre/post analysis, and synthetic controls.
Combine retailer point-of-sale data, marketplace data, search trends, and TikTok data into a unified view.
Build a repeatable halo measurement framework for pitches, quarterly reviews, and retailer conversations.
Respond to client measurement frameworks and RFI questions with a clear Third point of view.
Reconcile TikTok Shop native data against third-party data tools and document discrepancies and their causes.
Maintain consistent metric definitions across teams.
Support new business with category sizing and competitive analysis.
Present findings internally and externally as needed.