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.

This is a salary‑exempt position.

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 fact‑based insights and recommendations from large data sets in a concise, compelling fashion.

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 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.

Implement best practices for data generation, storage, accuracy, and consumption within the division. Work cross‑functionally with IT, BI, and Sales Operations groups to ensure accuracy in source records certified for use across the broader organization. Develop a 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.

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.

Work within Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations to ensure optimal visibility to business performance is aligned 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.

Act as an active clearinghouse of ideas, concerns and activity on behalf of the full commercial team. Champion the business and team, build compelling and persuasive business cases to ensure alignment, and gain broad‑based support for resource allocation to the team’s activities.

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 and foster strong cohesiveness regarding major issues (direction, annual plan, budget, policy…