Advanced Analyst II

## Advanced Analyst IIApplyremote type:
Hybrid locations:
Grand Rapids, MItime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
RAs a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
** Meijer Rewards
*** Weekly pay
* Scheduling flexibility
* Paid parental leave
* Paid education assistance
* Team member discount
* Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

This position is an experienced role on the Meijer Advanced Analytics Team. Advanced Analytics is a cross functional team that marries a highly technical skillset, rooted in statistics and machine learning, with expert level communication and collaboration to serve and partner with a multitude of business areas. The Advanced Analyst II Role contributes to these efforts by developing and applying advanced analytic & machine learning solutions, proactively collaborating with and anticipating business needs.

This role directly supports data-driven actions taken across the business to have a positive impact on sales, margin and profit performance as well as enriching the lives in the communities we serve.
** Duties and Responsibilities (Key Deliverables):
** Deliver against the overall strategy to enrich the lives in the communities we serve by delivering data-driven solutions across merchandising, marketing, supply chain, product flow, operations, real estate, and other areas of the business.
* ** Leadership & Business Partnership**  + Partner with business stakeholders to build strong relationships and understand how data-driven insights and recommendations can support, enhance, and improve business outcomes.  + Anticipate future business needs and identify opportunities that make substantial difference for organization, and lead the development of analytics initiatives.  + Champion the adoption of advanced analytics capabilities and recommendations across the business.  

+ Build and maintain relationships with key industry partners (eg: suppliers, vendors, CPGs)  and continue to enhance analytics capabilities, knowledge and impact.  + Stay up-to-date on news in the retail sector—such as state-of-the-art technological developments or competitive incursions—and utilize this information to generate pro-active insights & recommendations.
* ** Technical Skills**  + Contribute subject matter expertise and methodological design of holistic, custom insights & recommendations for each area of the business by developing custom algorithms, statistical models, machine learning solutions and artificial intelligence.  + Develop scorecards and partner with reporting teams to improve reporting effectiveness.  + Leverage disparate data sources and various platforms for holistic understanding to solve complex business problems.  

+ Develop actionable recommendations (marketing, real estate, merchandising)  + Define and analyze Key Performance Indicators to monitor the overall health and measure value of the data products
* ** Communication**  + Communicate these highly technical concepts and results through expert data-driven story-telling via in-person presentations, virtual presentations, email communications, and dashboards & reporting.  + Drive adoption and usage of analytical insights, data products, models, and recommendations      .
* ** Customer-Centered:**  + Keep customer at the center of analytic approach, analysis and solutions and partner with cross functional teams to drive customer centered focus s job description is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required
** Job Requirements
**** Education
* ** Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Economics  or other quantitative field or Relevant Experience. Master’s Degree Preferred
** Experience
* ** 2+ years of relevant analytics experience in an applied role—preferably within retail, logistics, supply chain, or CPG.
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