Senior Reporting Analyst

Grainger Businesses•Lake Forest, IL

2d•$87,200 - $145,300•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Reporting Analyst, Sourcing Extended Assortment serves as a lead analytics professional responsible for transforming complex data into actionable business insights that support strategic and operational decision-making. The role designs, develops, and maintains business intelligence solutions, including dashboards, reports, data models, and analytical frameworks, to enable performance monitoring and business optimization across multiple functions. Working independently on complex assignments, the position partners with business leaders and technical teams to identify opportunities, evaluate business performance, and recommend data-driven solutions. The role leads analytical initiatives, influences decision-making through advanced insights and visualization techniques, and serves as a subject matter resource for business intelligence best practices, tools, and methodologies. This is a Hybrid position requiring 50% of time onsite at either the Lake Forest, IL or Chicago, IL offices.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
3+ years of experience in reporting, business intelligence, or data analytics roles.
Experience with business intelligence analytics tools (e.g. R, Python, SQL), data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Power BI), and Power Platform (e.g. PowerApps, Power Automate).
Experience analyzing complex data from multiple sources and applying statistical, analytical, and data modeling techniques to identify trends, evaluate business performance, and recommend actionable solutions.
Experience leading cross-functional analytics initiatives, gathering and translating business requirements, influencing stakeholders, and communicating complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Knowledge of business intelligence methodologies, data visualization principles, dashboard development, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) design, and reporting frameworks used to support operational and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and enhancement of business intelligence solutions, including dashboards, reports, scorecards, data visualizations, and self-service analytics capabilities that provide actionable insights for business and functional leaders.
Partner with stakeholders across business functions to gather requirements, translate business objectives into analytical solutions, and deliver data-driven recommendations that improve operational performance, customer outcomes, and strategic decision-making.
Analyze complex and diverse data sets from multiple internal and external sources to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and performance drivers, applying advanced analytical techniques and business intelligence methodologies to solve challenging business problems.
Develop and maintain data models, reporting frameworks, metrics definitions, and data quality standards that ensure consistency, accuracy, scalability, and effective governance of business intelligence assets and analytical outputs.
Lead business intelligence projects and continuous improvement initiatives by providing technical guidance, mentoring less experienced analysts, influencing stakeholders, and driving adoption of reporting, visualization, and analytics best practices across the organization.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment
6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing
18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees
6 company holidays per year
6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required
Employee discounts
Tuition reimbursement
Student loan refinancing
Free access to financial counseling, education, and tools
Maternity support programs
Nursing benefits
Up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents
Up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents