Director, Advanced Analytics

Advantage Solutions • Salisbury, NC

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About The Position

Director, Advanced Analytics The Director, Advanced Analytics defines and executes advanced analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value. Job Will Remain Open Until Filled Responsibilities The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Requirements

• Strategic thinking and enterprise-level analytics leadership
• Expertise in data governance, architecture, and analytics platforms
• Strong understanding of business operations and ability to align analytics with strategic goals
• Proven ability to lead innovation and manage change
• Experience developing and scaling analytics capabilities across departments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Expertise with Python, SQL, data visualization tools, and performing analyses in data lakes
• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning techniques
• Experience with Agentic AI techniques
• Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Work is performed primarily in an office environment.
• Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.
• Bachelor’s degree (MBA/MS a plus)
• 8–10 years experience in relevant field

Responsibilities

• Defines and executes analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value
• Build scalable analytics capabilities leveraging core infrastructure and data lake environment
• Influence senior leadership with data-driven insights
• Lead business value driving innovation in analytics techniques and methodologies
• Represent analytics in enterprise-wide initiatives
• Partner cross-functionally to identify, build business cases for, and collaborate on POCs and implementations for innovative tools, capabilities, and systems
• Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources
• May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports
• Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director