Senior Category Analytics Partner

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Utilizes advanced analytical methods to identify patterns, relationships, and trends across multiple data sources. Synthesizes information to construct a data-driven narrative with business-driving recommendations that can be understood and actioned-upon by a broad audience.
• Explains complex data and analytical approaches in simple terms that connect results with merchandising, customer, competitive, and marketing problems.
• Supports category-level insights, ad-hocs, and reports as needed.
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners across the analytics organization (assortment analytics, pricing, promotion, etc) and acts as project manager to translate stakeholder business questions into analyses that inform business decisions and align with business objectives.

Requirements

• Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis.
• Strong ability to translate data into actionable analytical insights which drive business decisions.
• Understanding of customer, market, and industry trends and emerging challenges.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix, supply base, and retail operations.
• Communicates structured information in a clear, concise, and organized fashion.
• Able to effectively lead meetings, present information, and respond to questions in both one-on-one situations and group meetings.
• Advanced ability to plan, estimate, organize, and lead multiple projects.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional team members at various levels of the organization to achieve business objectives by required deadlines.
• Builds trust and nurtures relationships with senior-level stakeholders and leaders.
• May provide informal support to less experienced team members.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., analytics, statistics, applied mathematics, or computer science).
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in analytics, category and assortment management, retail operations, or related fields.
• Experience with large enterprise databases such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, Nielsen; experience with AWS QuickSight is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Graduate degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with AWS QuickSight.

Benefits & Perks

• Wage range of $89,407.00-$151,992.00 annually, commensurate with experience.
• Whole Benefits including health insurance, retirement plan benefits, store discount eligibility, paid time off, and other benefit programs.
• Eligibility for Whole Benefits is determined under the terms of the applicable Whole Benefits plan at the person's date of hire.