What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Analyst, Business Analytics & Insights position at The Vitamin Shoppe?
Overview
The Senior Analyst, Business Analytics & Insights is responsible for translating complex data into actionable business insights. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams (Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Real Estate, etc.) to support strategic decision-making through advanced analytics, modeling, and storytelling.
This is a hands-on role for a highly analytical professional who can independently own analyses end-to-end, influence stakeholders, and help elevate analytics maturity across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Partner on advanced analytical projects to support business strategy, performance optimization, and growth initiatives
- Analyze large, complex datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment where priorities can change
- Design and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and reporting frameworks used by senior leadership
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate ambiguous questions into clear analytical approaches
- Communicate insights through compelling data storytelling and executive-ready presentations
- Validate data accuracy, improve data quality, and document analytical methodologies
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- 3-5 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data science
- Advanced SQL proficiency (complex joins, window functions, performance optimization, data manipulation)
- Working Knowledge of Python or R for analysis and modeling
- Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar)
- Solid understanding of statistics and forecasting methods
- Good understanding of data flow, turning raw data into business facing
- Proven ability to translate data into clear business recommendations
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, CPG, or multi-location businesses
- Experience working with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.)
- Familiarity with automation, scheduling, and scalable analytics workflows
- Ability to multi-task with extreme attention to detail
- Comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and follow through skills
- Possess agility, can shift between projects without a loss of overall quality
- Proactive and positive attitude, able to handle and navigate push back
Equal Opportunity Policy
The Vitamin Shoppe is an equal opportunity employer. We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, separation, recruitment, pay and other forms of compensation, access to facilities and programs, training and general treatment during employment.
We firmly believe that every Health Enthusiast has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Our goal is to maintain a satisfied and productive team of Health Enthusiasts. The keys to reaching that goal are effective leadership, equal application of fair human resources policies, competitive wages and benefits, and close attention to all health enthusiast matters. The Vitamin Shoppe is committed to the principle of fair and impartial treatment of our Health Enthusiasts.
Health Enthusiasts with questions or concerns about equal employment opportunities in the workplace are encouraged to bring these issues to the attention of their Human Resources representative. We will not allow any form of retaliation against Health Enthusiasts who raise issues of perceived discrimination in good faith. To ensure our workplace is free of artificial barriers, violation of this policy may result in disciplinary action, up to and including discharge.
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