Director Business Analytics - Full-time

Summary

Director Analytics – Field Operations

The Director Analytics is responsible for driving revenue and managing costs by creating innovative, insights-driven field operations solutions. The DA is a data-driven role that takes an analytically rigorous approach to establishing actionable intelligence for the Operation. Using an applied analytics approach, the DA will lead a small team to analyze data using statistical methods, machine learning, and analytics techniques to solve complex problems, discover meaningful insights, and identify business improvement opportunities. The DA will also develop programs that simplify reporting and communications between field support personnel, regional operations execs and corporate business leaders as well as maximize consumer engagement.

Responsibilities

• Focus on attacking the top analytics use cases
• Ensure that data organization and analytics are driving components of next generation solutions

• Takes ownership for designing and building incisive and meaningful business monitoring measures used to maintain/improve overall business performance and profitability.
• Identifies performance trends and recommends initiatives to address weaknesses and leverage opportunities.
• Foster thought leadership by keeping up-to-date of industry best practices.
• Recommend strategies leveraging an analytical approach to deliver objectives and achieve results.
• Develop dashboards, provide transparency of results (e.g.; daily monitoring) and communicate effectively to all departments and stakeholders.
• Execute deep dive analytics for areas within the dashboard or daily results relative to plan, forecast or targets to support quality, delivery, cost and productivity.

Qualifications

• Analytics team leadership in a BI environment
• Experience working with multiple internal customers
• Demonstrated experience with Alteryx, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI
• Ability to communicate complex data/insights in simple, real world terms
• End user mindset
• Retail experience very helpful
• Curious, energetic problem solver

Advantage Solutions is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. Advantage Solutions services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Advantage Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer