Intermediate Business Intelligence Analyst

Gordon Food Service • Michigan, MI

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Intermediate Business Intelligence Analyst is responsible for supporting business partners with insights, automated solutions, and various dashboards/reporting that will enhance their data-driven decisions. This role is responsible for partnering with Data Scientists on predictive analytics projects that enable proactive decisions and strategies. Support to the Data Scientists may consist of data mining, data discovery/exploration, feature creation, blending data from multiple sources, and statistical analysis. This role will also involve technical support, some requirements gathering/refinement, self-driven insight discovery, and presentations to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree preferred
• 5 years experience in Data Analytics preferred
• Strong understanding of how to construct SQL queries for complex data mining (GCP and BigQuery knowledge a plus)
• Ability to teach and support others on various complex data mining approaches
• Experience with visualization tools and ability to learn new technologies
• Must have problem-solving capabilities
• Self Management - attention to detail, able to prioritize, multi-task and effectively manage time, and able to work independently or within a team environment.
• Must demonstrate drive and initiative and be highly motivated toward company, team, and individual results and maintain a high focus on priorities.
• Ability to develop solutions to a variety of complex problems and reference established precedents and policies.
• Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized, attentive to detail
• Strong analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer data needs.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong desire to learn new technologies and tools

Nice To Haves

• Wholesale Food Distribution knowledge is a plus
• Understanding of existing GFS applications (Legacy Database/Tables, relationships, data structure) preferred
• Python knowledge a plus

Responsibilities

• Influence business decisions by providing quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers.
• Bridge the gap between those doing self-service analytics as business users and those doing advanced analytics as data scientists.
• Organize data and create dashboards/reports using visualization tools and internal databases.
• Utilize statistical methods for data analysis and insight development.
• Interface with the business to understand data needs and translate that to the target data set and project.
• Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external data sources.
• Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems.
• Work in conjunction with other GTS teams, improving data transparency and enabling businesses to make more trustworthy business decisions.
• Responsible for bringing together information from different source systems into consolidated data structures.
• Builds strong working relationships with numerous cross-functional teams.
• Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators.
• Explains causes of unexpected variances in trends.
• Performs Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis, compiles and prepares reports and graphs.
• Analyzes various data elements to assist with improving Key Performance Indicators.
• Integrate, consolidate and cleanse data for use in analytics applications.
• Explore the suite of Google AI tools for use as part of creative problem solving, data analysis, insight development and delivery.

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity is a matter of policy at Gordon Food Service, Inc. and we are committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

What This Job Offers

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