Senior Category Analyst, Category Analytics

Description

As an Analytics Partner, you will be responsible for delivering data-driven and actionable recommendations through our category-level insights process to drive business decisions. The ideal candidate has the ability to “tell a story” with their analysis, built across a variety of data-sources (transactional, market, competitor, and customer) to help stakeholders achieve their business objectives. With a strong analytical skillset, relevant experience (category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, etc), and knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix you will thrive in this role that is the ideal combination of art and science.

Key job 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.
  
  

Skills

• 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.
• Understands 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. Tailors communication approach to specific situations and audiences.
• 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.
• Impacts overall team effectiveness.
• May provide informal support to less experienced Team Members.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or any related quantitative field
• 3 years of doing one of several roles: quantitative/financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, pricing, marketing or e-commerce experience
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, macros, SQL, visualization tools - Tableau, Quicksight, etc.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Grocery / CPG business
  
  

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, AUSTIN - 74,300.00 - 130,100.00 USD annually


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10435658