Sr Manager, Reporting Analytics

Sr. Manager, Reporting and Analytics

At KeHE, we're obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we're committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you'll be embarking on a career that's moving forward. When you join KeHE, you're becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

The Sr. Manager, Reporting and Analytics is an integral part of the customer account team providing analytics, reporting, and management of account support functions for the customer account. The individual will work closely with the Leadership team and provide direct support to all divisions of customer. The Sr. Manager, Reporting and Analytics will be required to access both IRI data and customers' specific database to mine data for specific projects, as identified by Leadership and team.

The individual will be responsible for creating reports from scratch, using Excel Workbooks, Power BI platform, and shared tools to measure the effectiveness of the identified strategies. As with all positions at KeHE, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE's Mission, Vision, and Values.

DUTIES, TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for aggregating and analyzing data to support strategic decisions, as well as predictions and accountability to the Leadership.
• Customer-facing; must be able to communicate effectively directly with customer and present data and presentations in a professional manner.
• Implement smooth and efficient data analytics that support and integrate with the customer
• Talent in synthesizing data and communicating effectively both orally and in writing with people at all organizational level (internal and external)
• Create presentations utilizing data to influence key customer decisions. Example would include:
  Top to Top Business Reviews, Brand Initiatives and specific reviews and working closely with Growth Solutions counterparts on competitive market data.
• Demonstrates a strong attention to detail
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple tasks
• Demonstrates ability to work productively and effectively as part of a team
• Understand business needs and objectives
• Leveraging relationships with KeHE cross-functional personnel, customer personnel, and vendors
• Provide real-time information around vendor performance and product availability
• Develop and maintain scorecard to support key initiatives
• Build, develop, and maintain data models, reporting system, dashboards, and performance metrics that support key business decisions
• Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and performance metrics
• Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining, modeling, visualization, and communication deliverables
• Provide financial reporting to internal account team
• Lead cross-functional projects using advanced data modeling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decision and reveal optimization opportunities.
• Examine, interpret, and report results of analytics initiatives to stakeholders
• Support the account team with weekly, monthly, and annual forecasting responsibilities
• Complete ad-hoc projects as requested
• Weekly Service as Measured by Customer reporting, Account Dashboard/Scorecard
• Monthly vendor performance score carding
• Research and communicate ad-hoc store specific service level requests
• Recruit, train, develop, and supervise analyst-level employees (if applicable). Provide leadership to teams in order to achieve superior business results.

Strong SQL skills, ability to perform effective querying involving multiple tables and subqueries. Ability to gather/query data from Excel, AS400, Cognos, or other external data sources. Experience working with and creating dashboards using all relevant data to inform decision. Experience using analytics to contribute to growth efforts or other key business initiatives. Presentation skills and aptitude is a must as this role will participate and present internally and externally on key strategies.

Strong organizational skills, time management and negotiating skills. Ability to manage multiple and shifting priorities. Must have strong working knowledge of revenue, POD, trade management, assessment of marketplace, and voids. Equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered. Strong problem solving, quantitative, and analytical abilities. Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people and projects simultaneously. Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills.

Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills with people at all organizational levels. Ability to prioritize workload to have the most significant impact on customer…