Manager, Business Analytics & Insights

The Manager Business Analytics & Insights will work closely with leaders across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and Operations to deliver fact‑based analysis and insight‑led recommendations driving towards the profitable growth of Simmons Foods. This position will enable speed and accuracy across teams by ensuring data accuracy and optimizing reporting, tools, processes and procedures. They will leverage advanced data modeling, predictive modeling, and analytical techniques to interpret key findings from both internal and external data to drive insights into action that will support business strategy.

• Deliver Business Analytics & Insights. Develop and maintain analyses delivering insights across the BU at both an executive summary and an individual contributor level of detail. Analyze daily/weekly/monthly trends across Customers, Segments, Production locations and more, highlighting exceptions and surfacing actionable information. Communicate gaps to the plan and work with partners to mitigate. Be both a student and a teacher in the art of storytelling with data, delivering the fact‑based insights and recommendations from large data sets in a concise, compelling fashion.
• Develop and maintain Business reporting suite utilizing internal and external data sources. Key point of contact for the development and maintenance of new and current reporting and dashboards within the division. Build, develop, and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics support that support key business decisions. Oversee the data/report requests process: tracking requests submitted, prioritization, and approval.
  
  Lead cross‑functional projects using advanced data modeling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities. Perform complex data analysis and make recommendations based on results.
• Drive Data Governance within the division. Implement best practices for data generation, storage, accuracy, and consumption within the division. Work cross functionally with IT, BI, and Sales Operations group to ensure accuracy in source of records certified for use across the broader organization. Develop roadmap for new data source integration with partners to enable blended data sets with automation. Ensure new processes are in alignment with the standardization focus of the organization.
• Accelerate continuous improvement and automation of reporting, dashboarding and tools. Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining, and engineering as well as modeling, visualization, and communication deliverables. Participate in the planning of and lead the implementation of multiple sophisticated projects simultaneously. Identify data source gaps and support the advancement to eliminate irregularities, incongruencies, and anomalies.
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership and Peers within Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations to ensure optimal visibility to business performance is in alignment with cross‑functional department needs. Work will be partially routine maintenance, partially request‑based on business needs, and partially proactive based on opportunity areas identified by the Manager Business Analytics & Insights. Educate and train members across the BU on data structure and tools to drive engagement in self‑service analytics.
• Maintain and foster strong communication and relationships across organization. Works to be an active clearinghouse of ideas, concerns and activity on behalf of the full commercial team. Acts as a champion for the business and team. Acts as an idea leader, building compelling and persuasive business cases to ensure alignment, gaining broad‑based support for and resource allocation to the activities of the team.
• Participate as a member of the Team. Participate in the ongoing development, communication and implementation of team concepts, programs and policies; coordinate work to ensure best practices with all team members. Attend appropriate team meetings. As a member of the Team, foster strong…