Business Analyst

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As the fastest-growing distributor of restaurant equipment, HVAC and residential appliance parts, we like to do things a little differently. First, you need to understand and demonstrate our Core Values with safety being your first priority. That’s key. But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change…and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list!

Position at Parts Town

As the fastest-growing distributor of restaurant equipment, HVAC and residential appliance parts, we like to do things a little differently. First, you need to understand and demonstrate our Core Values with safety being your first priority. That’s key. But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change…and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list!

Do you have a genius-level knowledge of original equipment manufacturer parts? If not, no problem! We’re more interested in passionate people with fresh ideas from different backgrounds. That’s what keeps us at the top of our game. We’re proud that our workplace has been recognized for its growth and innovation on the Inc. 5000 list 15 years in a row and the Crain’s Fast 50 list ten times.

We are honored to be voted by our Chicagoland team as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for the last four years.

• Parts Town Pride – check out our virtual tour and culture!
• Quarterly profit-sharing bonus
• Hybrid Work schedule
• Team member appreciation events and recognition programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Monthly IT stipend
• Casual dress code
• On-demand pay options:
  Access your pay as you earn it, to cover unexpected or even everyday expenses
• All the traditional benefits like health insurance, 401k/401k match, employee assistance programs and time away – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

The Business Analyst (internally known as Data Detectives) will partner with leadership to provide actionable insight to help improve both the top and bottom-line results. The Business Analyst will be a subject matter expert in data modeling and solutions, analysis, and business intelligence. The Business Analyst will help drive business results, improve customer effectiveness, and operational efficiencies. The Business Analyst will perform thought partner, and strategic advisor, for Parts Town’s leaders and provide insight and recommendations to drive decision making.

• Work with leadership to provide timely and accurate insight into their customer base to maximize growth and drive customer profitability
• Drive continuous improvement by automating, refining, and implementing business intelligence solutions to replace manual efforts, provide new and faster business insights, and improve efficiencies
• Focus on reducing time spent on data mining or validating the integrity of the data by reviewing current solutions, identify issues, defining requirements and implementing the best possible analytical solutions, including documenting processes and ensuring standardization (SOP’s) is being utilizing amongst each business segment
• Analyze large and disparate data sets to make recommendations to improve profitability
• Proactively uncover timely and accurate insights into Parts Town’s most influential customers and vendors and partner with decision makers to maximize growth
• Innovate new self-serve reporting capabilities on key metrics by leveraging world-class business intelligence tools
• Optimize value proposition for customer market segments based on price elasticity, customer profile, and operational costs

• You have 1+ years of experience in an analytical data role or a BS/BA in business, finance, statistics, computer science, information systems, or related fields
• 1+ years of experience leveraging business intelligence tools (e.g., Qlik Sense, Power BI, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud) to retrieve, visualize and interpret data
• You love analyzing data, identifying trends, and summarizing findings and recommendations to business partners to drive growth and strategy
• You demonstrate proven analytic and quantitative…