Lead Data Analyst - Data & Insights

Target • Minneapolis, MN

1d • $113,000 - $203,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Data Analyst you will be responsible for supporting our efforts to help Target make better data driven decisions through analytics and insight. In this position, you'll craft analytical solutions, pinpoint and merge pertinent insights related to business challenges, and collaborate with the team and stakeholders to influence decision-making. You will accomplish this through a wide variety of skills: data wrangling, visualization, descriptive and inferential statistics, and exploratory analysis. The team operates in a product model, you will work with a global group of analysts. In partnership with your leader and Stakeholders, design and deliver analytical solutions to a business problem Leverage a variety of analytical techniques, drive meaningful insights to inform decisions Conduct analysis to inform the landscape and trade-off of business decisions Effectively communicate and apply analysis findings to business insights Serve as a thought leader and mentor on business domain and analytical techniques to elevate team performance Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ year as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience
• Advanced SQL experience writing complex queries
• Accomplished with Python or R
• Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, Data creation and consolidation
• Support conclusions with a clear, understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualizations
• Willingness to ask questions about business objectives and the measurement needs for a project workstream, and be able to measure objectives & key results
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams, and translate ideas between them
• Knowledge of AB Testing methods, time series, S&OP planning, Forecasting models including statistical analysis
• Experience in analytics tools such as: SQL, Excel, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Python, R, Domo, Adobe Analytics (or Google Analytics) and/or equivalent technologies

Responsibilities

• design and deliver analytical solutions to a business problem
• Leverage a variety of analytical techniques, drive meaningful insights to inform decisions
• Conduct analysis to inform the landscape and trade-off of business decisions
• Effectively communicate and apply analysis findings to business insights
• Serve as a thought leader and mentor on business domain and analytical techniques to elevate team performance

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• employee discount
• short term disability
• long term disability
• paid sick leave
• paid national holidays
• paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees