Senior Sales Analyst- Walmart

Newell Brands • Bentonville, AR

122d

About The Position

The Senior Analyst will play an important role in Newell Brands' strategy to enable business transformation by creating data-driven insight-based culture throughout the organization. The successful candidate will have the skills needed to facilitate the collaboration between the business and technical teams. They will require proficiency in data practices, analytics techniques, and business knowledge as it relates to reporting, diagnostics and forecasting.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 1-5 years of direct hands on-Retail/ CPG experience providing solutions in a large global company. Omnichannel experience preferred.
• 1+ years of experience with Walmart business and expertise with systems such as Scintilla or Retail Link.
• Skill with Microsoft Office applications for the creations of reports, presentations and analysis including Excel functions, formulas, pivot tables, and Power Pivot.
• Strong business acumen with an analytical and problem-solving mindset. Familiarity with financial concepts preferred (promotional lift, profitability, inventory levels, etc.).
• Ability to operate in a matrixed team environment with deadlines & deliverable dates shifting around.
• Intellectual curiosity for digging into the underlying story to be told with data.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate technical information to both a technical and non-technical audience.
• Experience synthesizing different data sources to drive to logical, concise, and actionable conclusions.
• Experience using POS Sales data alongside other data sources such as invoice, product margin, and supply chain to provide a holistic program for retail growth, preferred.
• Understanding of analytical processes including but not limited to data management, forecasting, optimization, predictive modeling and visualization.

Responsibilities

• Run analysis, reports and more to better understand and improve sales, profitability and process efficiency for internal customers.
• Draw actionable insights from varying data sets: consumption, market share, among many others.
• Interpret complex datasets to tell stories and develop an organized set of conclusions/recommendations that can be easily digested by a broad audience.
• Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to understand trends and opportunities for improvement, address customer needs and product pain-points.
• Collaborate with key partners to build automated reporting through Excel, BI Platforms, visualizations, and analytical models.
• In partnership with other members of the team, collaborate with Sales, Category Management, and Supply Chain to support/optimize innovation launches and promotional strategies.
• Participation with sales results, annual planning, and forecasting processes.
• Support the continued enhancement and evolution of Newell's analytics capabilities to a best-in-class level.
• Stay up to date on industry trends/innovations and drive new analytics initiatives that contribute to business goals.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree