Sr Analyst, Strategic Planning & Insights

Job Description

Job Purpose

TheSr Analyst,Strategic Planning & Insightswill own,analyzeand integratelarge internal and external datasets fromdifferent sourcestosupportdata driven decision making across commercialstrategyand salesexecution.The Sr Analyst will own responsibility over modeling sophisticated retail problems, discoveringactionableinsights andsurfacing sales enablement opportunitiesthrough the use ofstatistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques.The candidate should have extended business knowledge as well as technical abilities. The Sr. Analyst should be able to translate business critical metrics into data requirements then either develop or partner with Business Intelligence to generatescalablefinal data sets andreportingoutputs.This role partners closely with business leadership, commercial teams, and data engineering groups to transform and communicate complex data intoimpactfulbusiness recommendationsand support automation and process optimization.

EssentialFunctions &Responsibilities

• Advance data analysis skills, programming, & data engineering
• Lead sales analytics projects with key partners from theCommercial Analytics Platform (CAP), Business Units (BU)and Field Sales to provide tools and insights to all leadership teams
• Integration of information across groups and projects and not siloed to one team or one project
• Work proactively with brand and cross functional teams to understand business questions/objectives,identifythe information currently available, clearly define thegapsand articulate a proposedmethodologyand plan to deliver on these requirements
• Distill modelling and analysis findings into key concrete insights and clearly communicate resultsthroughclear andeffective storytelling
• Do exploratory data analysis and navigate largedatasetto come out with broad conclusions
• Use algorithms and programming to efficiently go through large datasets and apply treatments,filtersand conditions to the data
• Create meaningful data visualizations that communicate findings and relate them back to insights that generate business impact
• Partner with IT teams to turn data into critical information and knowledge that can be used to make sound organizational decisions and to build data validation frameworks ensuring the data coming to business is reliable andaccurate
• Validate findings using experimental and iterative approach
• Serve as a liaison between technical and business teamstodrivebusiness,helping to translatebusiness needs intoscalable reporting and analytical toolsand helping to simplify and distillbackclear findings from complex data sets

Key Projects

• Support the design, development,automation, and adoptionof data pipelines to support routine Sales Execution reports and analytical workstreams

• Build process improvement tools and algorithms that will ensure efficiencies through the sales organization saving data consolidation and data manipulation time across the sales teams

• Build front-end management tools and reports that will enable business to breakdown results and perform various analysis

• Perform analysis on BU and Sales priorities and sellingobjectivesto ensure we know how to close the gaponbusiness opportunities

• Maintains knowledge of products, pricing, services, market dynamics to perform strong analysis with insightful findings to the business teams

• Maintains complete knowledge of company policies, programs and procedures and ensures team members adhere to them when performing duties

• Support ad-hoc data requests from BU or Sales teams

• Analyze and visualize data and present business insights to business partners

• Train end users to appropriately use different data sets

Expected Experience& Required Skills

• ​​Bachelor’s degreerequired- math, finance, engineering, statistics, business or related discipline is required

• ​2+ years of experience working in Business Intelligence or Data analytics within a large-scale company or fast-paced environment

• ​Advanced in Microsoft Excel

• ​Proficiency inPowerBI

• ​Experienced with Snowflake andreading/writing SQL queries

• ​Skilledin PowerPoint

• ​Experience in manipulating or analyzing syndicated data, IRI/Circanaor Nielsen preferred

• ​Proven analytical and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases

• ​Experience working with large structured and unstructured data sets

• ​Skilled at problem solving and idea leadership

• ​​Strong drive for achieving results

• ​Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision

• ​Experience in partnering with business owners to understand requirements, develop project timelines, and deliver data sets or analysis on time

• ​Experience with cross-functional analytics initiativesthatinfluence decision making across business stakeholders and business units

• ​Good interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills

• ​Ability to influence multi-functional team members

• ​Deep Technical and Systems orientation

• ​Motivated self-starter who can effectively work under pressure and manage multiple priorities

• ​Strong verbal/written communication & data skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

• ​Ability to self-direct, multitask, and prioritize a constantly evolving workload

Preferred Skills

• Previousexperiencewiththe CPGindustry/ metrics

• Experience in project management

• Familiarity with statistical modeling tools such as R or Python

Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz’ strategy and values.

New Hire Base Salary Range:

$89,800.00 - $112,200.00

Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors

Benefits: Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.

You’ll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:

• Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments

• Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training

• Emotional – Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs

• Financial – 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability

Location(s)

Employee's Home - National

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may assistance.

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